Word: harmonica
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...wave your arms. Last year, though, the Go! Team could have played in one of London's narrow red phone booths and still had room to spare. Literally. Ian Parton - who performs like a one-man band on the Astoria's stage, playing guitar, keyboard, recorder, drums, melodica, harmonica and various percussion instruments - used to do everything solo. The former documentary filmmaker wrote, recorded, mixed samples and produced the band's Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. "I would just monkey around after work," explains 32-year-old Parton, nursing a pint of lager outside his local...
...that it's hard to realize how weird Bob Dylan sounded on first hearing--when the gods of show biz must have wondered, Who let him in? A slight figure with voluptuous lips and a hawk's hooded eyes, he hid behind his guitar and his neck-brace harmonica and emitted those torturous barnyard vowel sounds. Yet almost immediately, people got it. The imagery was so rich and cascading, the urgency of his outrage so compelling and contagious that listeners pretty quickly adjusted their long-held definition of what a folk song--or a pop song--was or could...
...high points of the current concert tour is Springsteen's heartbroken guitar-and-harmonica version of what he calls "the best song ever written about the promise of America, This Land Is Your Land. It's a promise," he adds, "that's eroding every day for a lot of people. Countries are like people. It's easy to let the best of yourself slip away...
...dissipated some of its caged-animal tension and replaced it with torpid mannerisms. Eddie (Shepard) sucks all the existential meaning out of a toothpick; May (Kim Basinger) thumbs her full lips; the Old Man (Harry Dean Stanton), who has intruded on both their lives way too long, tenderizes a harmonica and gulps down his guilt...
...manic playing of Matt Tong, rock's best new drummer in years. Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust The title track from the Boss's new album starts with a gentle acoustic strum, gains steam on the backs of evocative nouns (blood, stone, bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good. Martha Wainwright Bloody Mother f******* A****** The dry, ecstatic voice is a legacy of papa Loudon and mama Kate McGarrigle, but the talent for profanity is all her own. This roar of a song is further proof that a girl...