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...Cooder and Leon Redbone. The usual reviews of Ry Cooder's concerts have differed mainly as to whether he is the best white blues guitarist or potentially the best white blues guitarist. If you like barroom-type songs done in a monotonous drone, you'll like Leon Redbone also. Saturday, April 27 at sanders Theater...
...Cooder. Sunday, April 22. Jordan Hall. With Sleepy John Estes...
...Nashville, Tenn. She began singing as a pre-schooler in Daddy's choir, later polished her technique on four-part harmony in a Memphis jingle factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...
There are lots of other musicians who have been almost as neglected as those above and deserve much more attention than they have received: the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, Ry Cooder, Redbone, and Tony Joe White, not to mention people like Bukka White, the Five Royales, and the Detroit Emeralds, who are obscure only because they are black. None of these people is likely to start anybody's revolution, but they sure are nice to listen to while you wait for capitalism to come crumbling down around your ears...