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...raves from the audience attending his professional singing debut last week at a Manhattan cabaret called the Ballroom. "I'm making a public display of myself at this stage of my life," Papp, 57, began. Then he whipped out a top hat and cane and even mouthed a harmonica. After the finale and a flurry of roses at his feet, the star collapsed in his dressing room and sighed: "I could act Hamlet easier than this any day of the week. This is the pits." Nevertheless, if his one-man show continues to pack them in, Papp could learn...
...transitions between conversation and performance mask perhaps the only consistent structural flaw in the film. In one sequence Robertson tells a story about an old harmonica player he met with Helm years ago, then Scorsese cuts to Paul Butterfield wailing away on his harmonica. Helm speaks of the great Southern blues men-and presto, we see Muddy Waters (whose rendition of "Mannish Boy" is one of the high points of the film). The idea is a good one, but its execution is a little too smooth, too obvious...
...anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next to him with brilliant talent for procrastination, has actually begun to play a harmonica and toss a frisbee simultaneously--the college student's Dylan imitation. And the red girl--my God, she begins to thump her drum as if moved by some invisible rhythm, her foot tapping, her head dipping, swaying, thrusting...
...studio multitrack overdub gibberish and more roadband verisimilitude. Buffett, playing solo bars from New Orleans to Key West, Florida, poured chukka into his roadband sound: drunken-sailor crabby-cowbell filled-in reggae rhythms, compounded with clean country whine-guitars, a baying folkie voice and Greg "Fingers" Taylor's wailing harmonica equals shrimpboat rock. Buffett bottled it quick before it fizzed, and the music hasn't changed much over the six albums in the last five years. Buffett's chartbusting last year was the result mainly of promotional considerations and the pull of a big-name producer, Norbert Putnam, who used...
...wrong. Starting Tuesday, November 1, under the aegis of "Music Under Boston," musicians and singers will perform in the Harvard Square, Park Street and Government Center stations from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., and again from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Peter Bentley will play guitar and harmonica next Tuesday morning in the Harvard Square station; Fred Peterson will play violin in the afternoon. Janet Grice plays basoon Wednesday morning; Mark Parsons plays guitar Wednesday afternoon. For the rest of the November schedule, or if you want to perform in December, contact Vicki Gordon of ArtiCulture...