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...Performance Center last week in what has to be one of the real high points of the P.C.'s career so far. John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys, who have been there several times before, came on first and under their strange assemblage of hats--ten-gallon, cowboy, Clyde Barrow--played their set surely and professionally. But somehow, it seemed like a Cambridgey re-write of basic blue-grass, even without the smooth easy transitions and just damn inspired playing of the Scruggs for contrast. There's something a bit flat about John Lincoln Wright's voice--it gets...
Like his songs, a Haggard concert is simple and direct. No fancy cowboy suits, rhinestone decorations or hand-tooled boots for him. He may introduce his wife Bonnie Owens, a well-known singer who divorced Country Star Buck Owens twelve years before she married Haggard in 1965. Or he will tease his fans by saying "Merle Haggard isn't here tonight. I'm filling in for him. Those of you who aren't country music fans, you're in the wrong damn place...
...1930s, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers made the singing cowboy a national hero. With the mobilization of the entire population in World War II, regional music styles began to meld. A languorous hybrid known as country-and-western was born, in which the still simple music of the Southeast was blended with the more sophisticated instrumentation (steel guitar, drums, even horns) of the Far West. This wedding of styles produced, among others, Merle Travis, Webb Pierce and the late Hank Williams. The rise of rock 'n' roll (notably Elvis Presley, who began his career singing country-and-western...
...perhaps the first cowboy with discriminating tastes-Keats' poetry, Chateau Haut-Brion and Ming porcelain competing with his gun for his affections. He was called Paladin, and between 1957 and 1964 Actor Richard Boone made him one of television's most popular heroes, bringing home to CBS a tidy profit of $14 million plus millions more for his patented outfit: black hat, black pants, black shirt and a calling card that read "Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San Francisco." One viewer, however, thought he must be seeing his double. Rhode Island Cowboy Victor DaCosta, who had been...
Molly Taylor is a free spirit somehow blooming in a wasteland Western landscape. In the beginning-way back in 1925-a reasonable, ambitious rancher named Gid Frey loves her, but he is not "silly" enough for her taste. His buddy, Cowboy Johnny McCloud, also loves her, but he is too silly-or shiftless-for her. So she marries a real no-count whose fate (he dies a couple of years later) is no matter because before, during and after her marriage, Molly gives separate but equal bedroom time to her two true loves. In the process she bears...