Word: comins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk tale ("Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems to have absorbed the most from the punk movement. The music on this record, punched up in part by Young's band, Crazy Horse, is full of brash challenge, like...
...really knows what it means. In interviews, most reggae stars define the word like Joe Higgs--the man who trained both Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and can claim with some legitimacy that he invented the music form. Reggae, Higgs said in a recent interview, is political. "Reggae means comin' from the people. Everdy t'ing, like from the ghetto. When you say reggae, you mean regular, majority. It means poverty, suffering...
...WHEN YOU COMIN' BACK, RED RYDER...
...When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder is an orgy for masochists. For two hours the audience is trapped with a collection of loathsome people who take turns showering one another with verbal and physical abuse. It would be nice to say that there is some brilliant point to the repulsive goings-on, but none ever presents itself...
...rock are obvious and there is little pretension in the album's music or the P.R. about the extent of their debt. Numbers like "Down South Jukin," "Preacher's Daughter" and "Lend a Helpin' Hand" would not have been written if the Rolling Stones and Cream had never recorded. "Comin' Home" owes its existence in part to the early Allman Brothers, the group that Skynyrd always played second Les Paul to until just before the end. And thrown in for filler are two songs by then drummer and vocalist Rickey Medlocke which are so un-Skynyrd-like in their flutey...