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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Words like these are meant to be as unobtrusive as the voice that sings them: a calico background saying nothing on its own. The guitar and the fiddle and the steel and the piano are the real talkers, but they speak the same language. Betts's guitar riffs play on tension-and-release--building a taut peak like any good sixties guitar (only more delicate), then instead of dropping it letting it shower down intact, shaking leaves off a tree. Everything soars and subsides, but in tiny arcing weblets rather than waves. This is the kind of guitar that...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Richard Betts: American Musician | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

Suitcase and an old guitar...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Richard Betts: American Musician | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

...snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work on the part of brother Dave. The audience's desire for the pre-Preservation Kinks having been satisfied, the stage was set for the grand spectacle to come...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Korruption in Kinkdom | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...more aesthetic areas, the Sakowitz catalogue vends a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Mail-Order Magi | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...Myung-So, flute; Myung-Keun, violin; Myung-Chul, clarinet; Myung-Kyu, guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Chung Dynasty | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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