Word: folk-rock
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Mickey Mouse. Rick took his first permanent playing job early in 1970, when he joined an English folk-rock group called the Strawbs. He and his fellow berries did a lot of clowning around onstage, and he now wishes people would not remind him of that phase of his career. One of his antics used to be giving his small Hammond electric organ a push and then chasing it across the stage. One night he tripped over a wire and-lying helpless on the floor -watched the instrument plunge off the apron of the stage and go up in smoke...
...underground giants" like John Fahey and Leo Kottke mostly because, from what I've listened to, their good albums from any year are among the best albums every year. I've also tried to be somewhat representative; while I'm suspicious of arbitrary distinctions between so-called traditional folk, folk-rock, folk-blues, popular folk, and country, I've used my vague sense of these to pick it list touching all of them...
...variety in this list suggests the futility of predicting the future from last year's music, but when something new does emerge, the new music is likely to include both highly instrumentalized, perhaps electronic rock, probably attempting a new kind of orchestral sound, and a simpler folk-rock emerging from the music of people like Jesse Colin Young, Jerry Garcia, and Robbie Robertson. After all, when a year passes in which Bobby Darin, Robert Thomas Velline (Bobby Vee), Rick Nelson, and Dion (of the Belmonts) try to cash in on folk music, it is reasonable to claim some movement from...
...soared to the top of the AM charts and the album followed. The rock press treated Eagles very well and fours have cemented the band's place as one to be reckoned with. The album is interesting primarily for its uniquely southwestern orientation. There is a form fusion of folk-rock and straight country, and it meets in Colorado. (Which makes their warm up gigs in Aspen that much more interesting...
...stifled one of its finest creative talents in a frantic effort to create a god. Perhaps someday, the public will understand this about Dylan and see his growth as a hope and as an opening. Until then, it is instructive to consider these essays, and reflect on how a folk-rock concert at Newport ended what millions of Americans will look back on as their spiritual and political virginity...