Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar mix-the gaunt but unmarked face and the insinuating nasal rasp. He slouches buzzing over his guitar, his voice dry as locusts. Then, without warning, Bruce Springsteen rears back and uncorks a geyser of white hot sound. Cataracts of electrically charged fragments of sound lacerate the air, scattering intimations of Dylan and colliding with the fierce rhythms of Springsteen's own wild fusion of rock, jazz and folk rock...
...Jeff's routine of just being, heck, just ol' Jerry Jeff can be a mite wearing at times, but his songs grow on you. "Mr. Bojangles" is Walker's classic, but even on less distinguished tunes, you can count on some clever lines, a catchy melody and some good guitar playing. He is performing with B.W. Stevenson, whose "My Maria" was one of those forgettable songs you found yourself singing during economics lectures or unconsciously harmonizing with every time it hit your car radio. Through Saturday, March 30 at the Performance Center...
...hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel, a rhythm guitar and Jennings on lead. The tunes are written by and large by Billy Joe Shaver--one of the best--and they're basically macho stuff, about outlaws and boozers and a woman associated with every town. But anyone accustomed to country music has gotten over that by now. Waylon Jennings...
...radio shows in the thirties with chorus girls swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity for jazz-and-rock-like riffs. The Grateful Dead and the New Riders do this with country music, but their songs are different, trippy and abstract rather than sensual and evocative...
Nancy Wilson, soprano; Jim Meadors, lute and guitar. Songs of Dowland, Duarte, Seiber, Weber. Free. Tuesday, March...