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DIED. Johnny Jenkins, 67, acrobatic, left-handed blues guitarist who as a boy jammed with a guitar he made from a cigar box and rubber bands, then went on to deeply influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant...
...DIED. Johnny Jenkins, 67, acrobatic, left-handed blues guitarist who as a boy jammed with a guitar he made from a cigar box and rubber bands, then went on to deeply influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant...
...early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent electronic chaos...
...play in the studio. (All dialogue, except for a few lines spoken by characters in the show, is from John, Paul, George and Ringo in the '60s.) Sometimes the chatter is used to introduce a song. We hear John's voice - "The Birds. A Hitchcock movie" - and hear the guitar intro to "Blackbird." At other times the bavardage is there just to capture the group's breezy wit. George asks whether his guitar is out of tune (it is), and John tosses out an impromptu verse: "I suddenly discovered that I was out of tune,/ But I kept on playin...
...exuded so much cool and produced so few melodies as Sonic Youth. It's not that these New Yorkers are incapable--they're just obstreperous, which makes the arrival of their first great rock album such a shock. They haven't rid themselves of their beloved guitar fuzz, but on songs like Reena and the sublime Jams Runs Free, the noise takes a backseat to focused songcraft and real, live hummable riffs. To top it off, Kim Gordon has emerged from her decade-long Nico-soundalike contest and is enunciating again. Calling it a career best would only make them...