Word: blowin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technique, but when they cooked they cooked with gas, and Rob Stoner's bass lines and the spark of Scarlet Rivera's soaring violin often made you forget how muddy the drums were, and if they didn't Dylan and Joan Baez generally opened the second act with "Blowin' in the Wind," and if that didn't satisfy you had no right to sit there and should have given your ticket to someone who would have appreciated...
Then there's always this guy from down the hall. He plays a little folk guitar, and sings (sort of), and if you're not doing anything, why he'll be only too happy to play a chorus or two of "Blowin' in the Wind" for you, although he could do with a new set of strings...
...talent. Home Plate is close, yet still off base. Turning away more and more from the eloquent blues guitar that was the mainspring of her early success, Raitt draws most of her musical energy in her sweet husky voice. Songs like Sugar Mama, Good Enough and I'm Blowin' Away are good. However, she squanders her ability on soap opera ballads like My First Night Alone Without...
Free and Loose. It became apparent that Dylan, now 34, has not been this free and loose since the days when he was putting folk rock on the map, way back in 1965. He seemed most carefree when he and Baez joined to sing such old Dylan classics as Blowin' in the Wind and I Shall Be Released. And why not? As they put their heads together in front of the mike, Joan would put her arm around Bob, mop his brow, kiss his cheek. Most important were several new songs that indicate that the creative fires...
Before the stage curtains opened again, the voices of Dylan and Baez came over the sound system harmonizing on "Blowin' in the Wind." The curtain came up and revealed them leaning into a shared microphone. "Bob Dylan and Joan Baez," Dylan barked in his best impressario voice into the applause that followed the song. They did a couple of more songs together, her arm draped casually around his neck, and then he left...