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...Buried Alive in the Blues," by Nick Gravenites (an old Chicago schoolmate of Butterfield's) and a piece by Nina Simone and Eric von Schmidt. Enclosed within the album are biographies of each of the five members of the band printed on the flip side of a giant harmonica blow-up. In his personal biography, Butterfield contends that when he played with Michael Bloomfield, the two of them had a magic that they could reach. Real magic! That's what Butterfield is always looking for. Bluesophiles need not look any further for the magic than Better Days...
...most interesting of which is a rendition of "Frankie and Johnny," a chance for Doc, Merle, Vassar Clements, and dobro player Norman Blake to show off on brief solos. Again, in this set, the punctuation of the music with brief bursts from Clement's fiddle or from Doc's harmonica is often enough to make simple music interesting. The rest of the songs, though bright, energetic, and pleasant to listen to are less invigorating; they are so standard that they elicit no subtle vocal interpretation...
Died. Ron ("Pigpen") McKernan, 27, scruffy blues singer and harmonica player with the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock group whose loud, countrified rhythm-and-blues has been a staple of the West Coast counterculture since the mid-'60s; from as yet undetermined causes (he had recently been under treatment for liver disease); in Corte Madera, Calif...
Kathy Gatson's spirited arrangement of "Wonderful is the Lord" exemplifies the emotional freedom possible within this art form. Gordon Lewis brought the House down with his improvisational "Harmonica Blues." Had you closed your eyes you could have imagined yourself in a black church in Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans or any black community. Anywhere but Harvard. The concert was a beautifully transplanted slice of a deep-rooted cultural genre which seldom gets public play in Cambridge...
...adventuresome. The more intricately arranged songs with strings and woodwinds backing the lead guitar or piano approach a classical-sounding folk which very few writers manage successfully. There's a hint of calypso in some of the rhythms, and Mitchell has made good use of Graham Nash's harmonica playing. No folk album offers a wider variety of rhythm, texture, and melody...