Word: folkishness
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...with my feet in Dixie/ And my head in the cool blue North," sings Jesse Winchester on the title cut of his fifth album. Although he is now a Canadian citizen, having gone north to avoid the draft a decade ago, Winchester has never forsaken his Tennessee roots. His folkish simplicity and Southern warmth go down like good country cider-easily, and with an occasional gentle kick...
...Penny, under the Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St., has live music too, but it tends toward the folkish and is always full of rather bizarre people who are looking for someone to pick up. Not cheap, but they have a better selection of wines than most places around--although if you're setting yourself up as a wine connoisseur, you should probably go to the Wine Bar in the garage instead--but prepared to spend...
...fable, that is a little too fabulous. Shakespeare was able to get away with the man-woman mistaken identity gambit because he imbued it with humor, poetry and a sly fencing of the sexes. But that is not the case here, where the prevailing mood is one of folkish piety...
...dancers, who survive Grigorovich's overly athletic, cliché-ridden choreography with amazing élan. The crowd scenes, whether they involve battles, conspiring boyars or rebellious peasants, are confused and repetitive, and pale in excitement by comparison with the kind of dashing maneuvers performed by Russia's folkish Moiseyev company. Every grimace and gesture seems aimed broadly at viewers in the last row of the top balcony. Naturally, the boyars are evil beyond the point of caricature; the peasants are simple and good...
Eric Anderson is appearing at the Passim Book and Coffee Shop tonight through Sunday. Anderson is an old timer already (aren't we all), but the passing years haven't done any damage to his fine guitar playing, his mellow voice or his sweet folkish ballads. Anderson developed his talents and made his name when folk musicians still dreamed of social reform; his work is a pleasant reminder of those more optimistic times, particularly because his lyric is insightful, witty and packed with bite and punch. Shows are at 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. admission...