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Ryles-212 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge; 876-9339. Take the #69 bus to Inman Square. Ryles is more than a dive, but still not as posh as the R'Bar. Live jazz daily both upstairs and downstairs. Covers are pretty low; regulars include guitarist Bruce Bartlett, who plays every Tuesday. Food and drink available...
Which wouldn't be wrong, exactly, so much as it would be too narrow: in chasing the Raincoats' (Considerable) importance to the politics of pop, the pieces I've read tend to ignore their MUSICAL importance. Everybody in London learned something from reggae; the Raincoats' guitarist learned that a guitar could be wholly out of sync with the strong (first and third) beats in a measure, and the effect would be not chaos but openness. The drummer, Palmolive, learned that she didn't have to emphasize the strong beats at all: the loose, textural unaccented beats that showed up between...
...from Glasgow, Scotland. The Smiths, similarly, were distraught people from Manchester, England.) These stolid naysayers aren't entirely wrong: Johnny Marr may have picked up the soulful, chiming guitar sound of the first Smiths records in part from the soulful, chiming sound perfected by James Kirk, the Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner" and "William Shatner." (And no, those Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed...
That can't feel too good, especially considering there are 13 musicians on stage. Who's who? Who knows...and who cares. Natalie is all that matters; at least this seems to be the message that's coming across. Most R.E.M. fans know that Peter Buck is a great guitarist. But how many of you have even heard of Steven Gustafson? The band seemed to implode under the burgeoning weight of Natalie's popularity, so now they've decided to throw in the towel...
...sure had. Waller, who's 54 and on sabbatical from his day job as a professor of management at Northern Iowa State University, just happened to tell somebody at Warner Books that, yeah, he had been a semipro, Saturday- night-at-the-Holiday-Inn sort of guitarist and singer since college. And, yeah, he had written a song about Kincaid and Francesca called The Madison County Waltz...