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...postponed mentioning Guy Clark's No. 1 (RCA) till now to try to get a grip on myself. Never mind: it's probably the finest country album I've ever heard. The best numbers are "Rita Ballou" ("She's a rawhide rope and velvet mixture/ Walkin' talkin' Texas texture/ High timin' barroom fixture/ Kind or a girl") and "Texas--1947". This is the first album for Clark, a first-rate songwriter who wrote a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker's material. His voice is a raunchy beer-soaked, high whine, gritty and vital. Playboy calls his songs "Larry McMurtry...
Davies is not only Canada's finest active novelist but also one of the most gifted and accomplished literary entertainers now writing in English. He tells his apparently outrageous story wryly and wisely, by seedily leading his central characters from a Canadian carnival to the London stage, and then to a tumultuous mating with a monstrously ugly Swiss sphinx named Leisl Vitzipiit-zli. The people are brilliant talkers, but when they natter on too long, the highly theatrical author causes a grotesque face to appear at a window, drops someone through a trap door or stages a preposterous recognition...
This is a monodrama artfully pieced together from the 19th century poet's poems, letters and reclusive life. Dickinson's was an inward journey, an intrepid exploration of the heart, the mind and the soul. The only tracks she left were her finest poems...
...sometimes disturbing as he descends below his natural register, but for the most part the song rocks in a typical Jagger-Richard fashion, pleasing because it is so familiar. Yet Keith Richard's clean, tough guitar riffs have lost something of their power since the early days. Interestingly the finest guitar work to be found on this cut is provided, not be a Stone, but by Wayne Perkins whose brief solo enlivens the entire song...
...stickmen travel to Williams on Wednesday for what will hopefully shape up as an easy match, and then meet Dartmouth here in Cambridge Saturday. Wins in those contests would give Harvard its finest record in years--10-5, 3-3 in the Ivy League. That would certainly be counted as a successful season, considering that last year's squad finished 4-9, and lost five of its six Ivy League contests. SCORING AFTER 11 GAMES YR P G A PTS Billy Tennis Sr. A 35 17 52 Stevie Martin So. A 8 31 39 Billy MacKenzie...