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Bobby Womack, besides having the world's best album covers, is a pretty good fast-paced soul singer and guitarist. He's not especially adventurous--most of his repertoire is tried-and-true middle of the road soft rock--but he does an exciting job with what he sings. Womack also has a terrific soul revue, including a huge band and three female backup singers, one of whom is sometimes Pam Grier, Rosie's sister. At the Sugar Shack all weekend...
...Elvin Bishop Band and the Marshall Tucker Band finish up the weekend at the Cape Sunday night. The string Band is English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
...potent but short-lived rock phenomenon was the supergroup-an amalgam formed by the talented malcontents of other bands. While they lasted, groups like Cream and Blind Faith-both starring Guitarist Eric Clapton and Drummer Ginger Baker-played enormous arenas and made megabucks, and sometimes megamusic. Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them...
...used our names instead -it made us the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith of rock." Crosby once belonged to the Byrds, Nash was a member of the Hollies, and Stills and Young came from the Buffalo Springfield. Each man in C. S. N. & Y. was a skilled guitarist and singer-songwriter capable of rilling an entire album with original tunes. At one point Neil Young, who felt that the group was not using enough of his songs on C. S. N. & Y. records, stopped speaking to Stills. After disbanding, the four pursued separate careers with mixed success but gradually became...
...highly-touted double bill at the slick Performance Center this week, Mathews playing Wednesday and Thursday only and Orleans Wednesday through Saturday. Orleans is a four-man band that used to back up Janis Joplin, and is smooth and well-rehearsed, fast but not harsh. Ian Matthews is a guitarist and singer from England who plays all sorts of stuff, mostly in the country-folk end of rock...