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...PAXTON: AIN'T THAT NEWS! (Elektra). Like many another contemporary folknik, Paxton writes his own songs rather than searching Appalachia for old, impoverished ones. The result is a running satire pegged on today's headlines. With a precise, Midwest enunciation and simple guitar accompaniment, he sings out against everything from Mississippi injustice to the subliminal threat of war toys...
JUDY COLLINS' FIFTH ALBUM (Elektra). Armed with a powerful, needle-sharp alto, Judy Collins tilts against modern windmills-superhighways, jet planes-eloquently defends Negro riots and sit-ins in the name of civil rights, and pierces through to the heart of the poetry in Dylan's Mr. Tambourine...
...astronauts, are over 30, the young are clearly getting more interested. James K. Guthrie, of the California Arts Commission, observes that "boys and girls have suddenly found that progressive jazz, folk singing and rock 'n' roll aren't enough. The blood and thunder of Salome and Elektra attract them; they like the wild rhythms of Rigoletto and Trovatore. And they are often impressed by skill and sheer stamina: 'Man-did you hear that high B-flat knocked...
...PAXTON: RAMBLIN' BOY (Elektra). Paxton, 26, has a lazy voice and a busy pen: all 15 songs are his. He grew up in Oklahoma, like Woody Guthrie, and fights many of the same battles, along with Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. Paxton is against war, automation, Southern sheriffs and textbook history (What Did You Learn in School Today?). The title song of the album, Ramblin' Boy, seems to get around the most...
WOODY GUTHRIE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS (3 LPs; Elektra). Guthrie is apotheosized in the folk world partly because of his life, personally carefree and socially committed, and the unrestrained, sometimes vivid way he talked and sang about it. Three hours of Guthrie, re-edited from 1940 sessions with Alan Lomax. are divided between his stories about the Southwest and his "singing history...