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Bobby Blue Bland is a middle-aged veteran electric bluesman whose music veers toward the syrupy at times; he's no B.B. King, but he should still give a good show. At Paul's Mall in Boston, through Sunday...
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee look like maybe this week's best bet. The two veteran bluesman, who've been around forever and influenced just about everybody around, are at Passim's in the Square. You may have to wait in line for this--it's unusually good stuff for the Square--but Passim's at its best is a good place, so it'll be worth it. Not to be missed. July...
...Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with Maria but since her recent success she seems to have left him to fend for himself. Watson is certainly worth going to see on his own, and Muldaur could be a pleasant surprise. July...
...Harder They Come for this final week at the Orson Welles, are completely transporting in a different way. Instead of journeying to some never-never land of commercial spirituality, we flee to a real place at a real time. Les Blank's documentary visits the ancient home of bluesman Mance Lipscomb in the East Texas cotton country, weaving the music and the sharecropping way of life into a whole strain of U.S. history. Admittedly, dignity sits easy on the shoulders of the old and weathered, and the story that predates this picture is a horrible one, but Lipscomb's community...
FOLK FESTIVAL--Peter Johnson's roster this week is impressive: Coster, Welling, and Wollack, an old-time string band with a prize-winning fiddler; John Kolstad, a bluesman who traces his roots to Robert Johnson; and Mike Turk, reportedly a fine harmonica man. --P.M.S...