Word: garcias
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...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 rock to folk--wherever that movement may finally lead...
...aftershocks of the big quake. Since Franklin Roosevelt pulled out the Marines in 1933, ending 25 years of more or less direct U.S. intervention in the country, Nicaragua has lived in reasonable contentment under the strong but benevolent and relatively progressive rule of the Somozas-first Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Garcia, an adventurer who was cut down by an assassin in 1956, then his son Luis (who died in 1967) and now Luis' brother Tachito...
...Buchanan. Rolling Stone's "best known unknown musician in the world" in a rare trip away from the Crossroads a saloon in Gaithurburg. Maryland. His band, the Snakestretchers, is classic crummy roadhouse, but the cultists come to hear Roy. Clapton and Garcia love him; the lead singer gave up the guitar after he heard Roy. November 1st at the AQUARIUS. 8 p.m. Tickets...
...then fled into the darkened street. It was interesting--but the Publisher's Assistant who hired me told me I was being hired to cover administrative agencies, community groups, and the welfare crisis. Well, it didn't really matter much at the moment because a photographer, chewing on a Garcia y Vega American Market Grenadier and with a necklace of Nikons, was pacing around the desk...
Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles is a wicked little fable about an itinerant worker of cures and exactly how he acquired his specialty. Blacaman is the kind of brazen fellow Garcia Marquez obviously enjoys. The only thing he refuses to do is raise the dead, because, he says, "They're murderous with rage at the one who disturbed their state." He knows better, however. Offered the road to sainthood, he declines: "The truth is that I'd gain nothing by being a saint after being dead; an artist is what I am." And he actually manages...