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...magnet, of course, was Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Everything before them--Steve Marcus, who bombed with "Wild Thing"; Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson strutting, kicking, and striking a Panlike pose with his flute; and the frenetic sound of Ten Years Yater--was prologue. And from the moment they walked on, you said to yourself that everything that came after would be anticlimax. (In fact, Jeff Beck was worse; a real down...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Newport Jaz: I | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...cover photo doesn't show you how far Expedition has moved from bluegrass (Did Homer and Jethro ever pose on motorcycles, passing a joint?) just listen to a couple of cuts. The lyrics put a far greater emphasis on the entire thought-world than one finds in C&W, and a better understanding of poetics...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard and Clark | 6/11/1969 | See Source »

...Battle of New Orleans was immortalized by Johnny Horton, Waterloo by Stonewall Jackson, Koukamunga by Homer & Jethro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock 'n' Roll Quiz Answers | 1/24/1968 | See Source »

...Pale, pinch-faced little Jethro Furber, the nail-eyed reverend, was nothing but bones, and even those you could have wrapped in a hankie. His twisted figure was like a knotted string, and he hated his parishioners. With fierce Puritan intensity he preached burning, his whole inside crying die, shouting die. He worked in his garden obsessively, like a madman picking imaginary lint from his sleeve. He wanted women, imagined them in every posture. He wrote dirty doggerel and lied-his single skill. He lived in a thousand careening pieces, like a shattered army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dirty Old Man | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dirty Old Man | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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