Word: folk-rock
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...remembers-Dale is full of dry, self-deprecatory anecdotes. "What I did not realize was that it was a receiver too. Suddenly in the middle of a song, out would come, 'Zebra 2, Zebra 2, go immediately to Pimlico Road.' It made quite a contrast to folk-rock...
Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. Fairport Convention has been one of England's finest folk-rock groups. A few of its members split to help form the excellent folk group, Steeleye Span. I can't testify to what the group sounds like in its present incarnation, but the return of lead singer Sandy Denny means the group will have a solid and lovely voice up front. Her best-known original song is "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" Rocker Brock Walsh plays second bill. Friday, May 10 at Sanders Theater...
...virtuosity. The intervals between songs were filled with too much shuffling of feet, too many nervous jokes, and too little explanation of the origin and meaning of each song, with its Welsh or Irish or Breton lyrics. The program was musically weak only when the group moved from the folk-rock format to an attempt at hard rock. The attempt was shrill and unpleasant...
...TICKET-TAKERS at the Performance Center, passing around a lot of green paper the other night at the Waylon Jennings concert, were imitating and making fun of the country nasal twang wafting through the door. They piped in folk-rock music between the sets. Inside, in the midst of longhairs, a middle-aged housewife from Ayre rocked back and forth to "Me and Bobby McGee" and a man in his sixties danced to "Six Days on the Road." Cambridge has never been much for country and western music--and this is rare for a college town. But this week...
...opening act at Neil Diamond and Richie Havens concerts. His album, Comedy Minus One, could even be taken home to Mother-provided Mother was reasonably aware of what gets smoked at rock concerts. Singer-Songwriter Martin Mull is the only newcomer who is literally a rock comic, laying his words on music. His hit record is in fact an instrumental called Dueling Tubas. His other folk-rock ditties include Ventriloquist Love ("Whenever I kiss you, your lips never move") and the ultimate Hare Krishna lover's gambit: "I made love to you in a former life...