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Geoff Muldaur, who co-founded the Kweskin Jug Band and was with them up until it disintegrated in 1969, is one of the main reasons Better Days is so different from Butterfield's previous band. Muldaur is an adept slide guitarist who carries several blues styles with him. He also contributes betwixt-and-between vocals (which are even better in live performance) and comes up with enjoyable arrangements. The drummer, Christopher Parker, is perfect in his blues discipline, delivering a steady, unadorned beat. He and bassist Billy Rich make up a solid, healthy rhythm section. Then we come to Butterfield...
...into all the things which they never had time to do while on the job. Bob Wyrick, for example, has done most of the cooking for his family and has studied classical guitar at the New England Conservatory of Music this year. Although he estimates that a good classical guitarist must practice four hours every day, he notes some improvement on an average of two hours' daily practice...
...pardon,/ I never promised you a rosegarden..." wouldn't send you begging for a copy of James Brown's "Hot Pants," it's doubtful that anything would. Good country music has largely been a triumph of performance over material, and there is no question that any first-rate country guitarist, fiddler, or banjo player could put most rock musicians to shame...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Steven Goldberg, guitarist, playing works of De Visee, Tansman, and Bach. April...
...Watson and Chris Smither. There may be a flatpicking bluegrass guitarist better than Doc Watson. Then again, there may not be. Doc and his son, Merle, a blazing banjo player in his own right, brought their repertoire of traditional ballads, mountain rags, re-interpreted standards and blues to Sanders Theater last Spring. Not even Paul Freund gets the ovations they got. The foot-stomping and clapping were too spontaneous to be corny, even with Doc's shaggy-dog stories thrown...