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...Bluegrass. The best bet this week may be the culmination of the bluegrass series at the church at Garden and Mason Sts., the one with the rooster on the weathervane. This is the Sunday afternoon where they really kick it out (at 2 p.m. running all day), with Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys. How Banks Fall (great name) and more. Three bucks...
Either way, the 1974-75 college basketball crown will belong once more to its rightful owners--bluegrass hoop fanatics...
...thing, Gregg's voice was gone, replaced by Betts's plain, unpretentious vocal that weaved in and out of songs so that you hardly noticed the transitions--a bluegrass voice, nondescript. The music itself was still rock--as up-tempo as ever, built around solos; more lyrical and melodic, but essentially structured in the same way. Yet the tone is utterly different--after listening to Betts for a while, even though one's usual appetite for complexity and energy is what's responding, it's impossible to endure the old relentless rock--it sounds fatiguing, heavy...
Jackson Browne. It's too bad they didn't put Jackson Browne and Bonnie plementary styles are demonstrated by their interpretation of each other's material. Jackson's vocal style, however, is difficult to define. It's a kind of bluegrass-nasal which has been mellowed by his recent emphasis on family life. As for his back-up band, the center of attention will be focused upon a guitar mastermind whose credits include electric fiddle, in addition to lead, pedal steel, and slide guitar. Although you won't be able to see both Jackson and Bonnie in concert together...
...resident bands; they all work regularly, since Austin's 28 clubs and bars often hire as many as three bands a weekend. Says Townsend Miller, country-music columnist of the Austin American-Statesman: "Austin is country gone berserk." The music is country picking and basic bluegrass, leavened with rock and lightly glazed with acid...