Word: bluegrass
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...superfluous. But the year is new and so is the philosophy behind these notices: Besides ccapsules of the major rock concerts, these listings will also alert you to lesser known, more talented rock and sometimes jazz performers who rarely get the attention they deserve. Honest-to-goodness folkies and bluegrass players have more musical talent than all of Alice Cooper's cobras laid end to end. 'Tis better to overlook a multimillion-making electronic group than an exciting unknown playing a small club...
...this spring there is a lush lawn of Kentucky-31 fescue instead of the old Merion bluegrass. The magnolias and the cherry trees have sprinkled their delicate petals on the ground like tinted snow. The redbuds, crab trees, azaleas, tulips and hyacinths are at their peak. For the moment anyway, for a President who resides in the center of it all, the world is sweet and beautiful and promising. And it already has the Nixon thumbprint. Right straight out the window, down the knoll and across the drive, as the President's eye goes, there is the Sequoia gigantca...
...Watson and Chris Smither. There may be a flatpicking bluegrass guitarist better than Doc Watson. Then again, there may not be. Doc and his son, Merle, a blazing banjo player in his own right, brought their repertoire of traditional ballads, mountain rags, re-interpreted standards and blues to Sanders Theater last Spring. Not even Paul Freund gets the ovations they got. The foot-stomping and clapping were too spontaneous to be corny, even with Doc's shaggy-dog stories thrown...
...Will the Circle Be Unbroken--The Nitty Gritty Dirl Band, el al. (United Artists). Bill Mcl uin who manages. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, one of the first of the 60's mass market groups to turn to bluegrass for inspiration, decided he wanted to make a recording with all the Nashville greats he's admired all his life. The resulting three-record set contains probably the single most exciting collection of classic country songs ever recorded...
FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL (corner of Garden and Mason Sts.), Fiddle Show, French Canadian, Bluegrass, Irish, Western Swing. Old-Timey styles, 2-6 p.m., Dec. 17, $2.50. LEVERETT HOUSE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM. Lieder by Hugo Wolf, performed by Robert McKelvey, baritone, F. John Adams, piano...