Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laura Nyro: Nested (Columbia). The record that asks the question: "Can we mend/ transcend/ the broken dishes of our love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every...
...suspenders with leather loops up in the attic. All in all it was a big pain in the ass getting all the clothes together--I wore an oversized pair of black Marine shoes--and I don't see why they want it for a speaking contest, hardly a cotillion...
Roughly the same argument is made by other Southerners in the race: Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Oklahoma's Fred Harris. So many more Democrats are on the verge of entering that the field will soon be as crowded as a cotillion, and all will be watching how well the Southerners do against the cocky, crowd-pleasing Governor from Alabama...
...tell him they don't sound like anyone, and he says. 'They've got to sound like someone.' So what can I say?" The laments are those of Neal Grossman, manager of Guns & Butter, a Boston band whose first album will be released in early February on the Atlantic-Cotillion label...
...These are usually held at folk festivals, as the coffee houses seem more interested in attracting a large gate than in showcasing good music. Others see traditional records in stores and take a chance. Some people actually listen to the few traditional country shows on their FM radios ("Richard Cotillion," and "Give the Fiddler a Dram" on WTBS and "Hillbilly at Harvard" on WHRB...