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...Reason to Cry is no reason to rejoice. Let alone dance in the streets. Eric Clapton's latest album is as shiny-slick as an iced-over sidewalk and about as enticing as sit-slideing your away along one--easy, too easy, smooth, too smooth. He sings "Hello Old Friend" all around the AM networks but the lyrics leave you colder than the "Hi! What's happening?" of an acquaintance who passes by before the reply...
...Cream flavor has soured. The memory of the genius of Layla, able to redeem hours of poorer Clapton, has disspated: "Innocent Times" on side two whines, "no reason to laught...no reason...
...bring it to a head. We're going to conclude this chapter of our lives." So, with dinner out of the way, the group took the stage at Winterland last week for one final, marathon 37-song set. On hand for the grand farewell: old friends like Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and finally Dylan himself. Their last number, Dylan's I Shall Be Released, began with the line: "They say everything can be replaced." Perhaps...
...Michael Murphy, and B.W. Stevenson. Nashville has faded in importance, and Austin is one of the busiest country music centers around, the home of several stars, and the owner of a sound all its own. Longhairs who used to wear peace medallions and listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton now wear Wranglers, cowboy boots and Stetsons and spend their Saturday nights at Armadillo World Headquarters, drinking Lone Star beer, rubbing elbows with the rednecks, and carousing to the strains of steel guitars and songs about truck driving and faithless wives and husbands. The hordes at Woodstock are only...
...years ago in the west Kingston ghettos by amateur musicians, reggae is characterized by a scratchy, staccato guitar, incessant drumming and full-volume bass. Its rhythm is distinctive because, unlike rock, it emphasizes the first beat instead of the second. Harry Nilsson, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton have recorded songs with a reggae beat...