Word: guitar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...demise of an el Presidente. The Monroe Doctrine took care of Latin America once and for all; we haven't had to think about it since. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes in No One Writes to the Colonel, to outsiders "South America is a man with a moustache, a guitar, and a gun. They don't understand the problem...
Faced with these rich, self-contained traditions, the attitude of many countercultural refugees came to be that of overawed disciples. And what if you liked country songs but didn't like the discontinuous steel guitar work or the plodding, tchika-tchika drumming? Well, then you just weren't into Country and Western music. The whole effect of this categorization of musical genres was to impart a sort of guilty arteriosclerosis to more suburban artists, even if it did open up new areas to people and let the experts have something to be expert about. When somebody wails...
Patrick Sky. Sky's most recent album Songs that Made America Famous ("I tried to put something on it that would offend everyone") is essentially a long dead-baby joke. The remarkable thing is that he plays excellent guitar and banjo, and when he's not too drunk to be coherent, sings well enough too. Through Sunday, April 21 at the Stone Phoenix Coffee House...
...Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn, he added bass and theory, and at Sing Sing, trumpet. Miguel Piñero, 27, is playwright-in-residence and author of most of Straight from the Ghetto and of Short Eyes. Ghetto street child, ex-burglar, and drug addict, Piñero began writing...
...into it. To save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen also became proficient on the piano and harmonica-"If a guy can fix a radio, he can find his way around a TV, y'know?"-and soon he was forming bands of his own. He was "discovered" for recordings by John Hammond, the archetypal...