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Nasal Howl. From the moment they shamble onstage to begin their low-key performance, Dylan and the Band are in complete control of the audience. Dylan's early folk-rock numbers, punctuated by Band standards like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek, are knocked out with an almost blase professionalism. But if Dylan is short on emotion, he makes up for it in energy. Shouting into the microphone in his haunting nasal howl, he spits out his message like a cobra. Since neither the performers nor the songs need introduction, there...
...most exciting part of the show. Dylan, his halo of curly hair limned by the iridescent hues of the stage lights, is greeted by thunderous cheers. After four or five of his early ballads, he is again joined by the Band for a crescendo of electrified folk-rock songs studded with powerful guitar riffs. From then on, the shouting seldom stops...
...last album of original songs (not counting the soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid or Columbia's recent collection of rejected tapes from Dylan's Self-Portrait sessions), Dylan scored a triumph. Two packed houses rose to sing "Like a Rolling Stone"--nine years after Dylan inaugurated folk-rock by playing that same song at the Newport Folk Festival, nine years since people first cried that he had sold...
...WORK that has gone on under the rubric of "radical theology" for the past ten years or so has taken many forms, from proclaiming and then dissecting the death of God to staging folk-rock masses, none of them particularly "radical" in any substantial way. In fact, none of the so-called radical theologians, including Cox himself, has proved either as substantive or as radical as the three humbler men from whom they learned their stuff, Bonhoeffer, Buber and Tillich...
Died. Jim Croce, 30, folk-rock singer who had just hit the big time with his million-selling single, Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown; in a chartered-plane accident in Natchitoches...