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...What a pop singer could look like. Physically not a heroic figure (his song-publishing company was called Dwarf Music), Dylan nonetheless had a compelling presence: the voluptuous lips nearly hidden by his harmonica holder, the untelling eyes under a brakeman's cap. He didn't have as much influence on performing styles as Mick Jagger - he was a static figure, while Jagger's stage-sprawling struts set the fashion for rock-band lead singers - but he notarized the dress-down look for pop performers...
...also had the privilege to know Carolyn Hester, the beautiful "Texas songbird" of folk, who had secured Dylan's first professional recording gig as a backup harmonica player on her first Columbia Records album. (Hammond, Carolyn's producer, heard Dylan and promptly signed him to Columbia.) Carolyn, who was inexplicably omitted from the final cut of No Direction Home (though she had been interviewed for the film), had recorded with Buddy Holly back in Texas, and, according to The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Holly "followed her to Greenwich Village" in 1958. He wasn't the only one infatuated with Carolyn. Robert...
...love ’em or hate ’em, there are certain things everyone must know about the never-ending rides. First off, unlike in every movie that has ever depicted minor league baseball, there is no guy in the back strumming a guitar or playing a harmonica. Fortunately for the hearing-impaired, there is always some kind of slapstick comedy playing at a volume between blaring and deafening. Secondly, trying to navigate your way through the human minefield to the bathroom located in the back of the bus is more difficult than finding the Holy Grail. When...
...joyful record because at first it sounds like music from Battle of the Network Stars. The mix of blaring late-'70s soul samples, hand claps and exuberant rhymes by female MC Ninja would be tough to take if there were any winking involved, but such touches as the wistful harmonica on Everyone's a VIP to Someone and the double-Dutch rhythm of We Just Won't Be Defeated betray no other desire than to be the sound track to adventures in your head...
...focus on what mattered with her music: the unvarnished truth of performing live. And for the recording of Birds, Runga gathered around her a band of like-minded souls - from Neil Finn on piano and bass guitarist Conrad Standish, of The Devastations, to The Boxcar Guitars' Benny Maitland on harmonica - to capture the intimacy of her stage shows. Through this haunted house of sounds, creaking and echoing with bouzouki-style guitar and harp, her voice weaves its silky web. "I know you have laid a trap for me," she whispers on the spellbinding Captured. And captured...