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...underground nightspot circuit. Grafted to primitive three-chord rock, Smith's raw soprano and often menacing lyrics emerge in an effect that is curiously vulnerable. With her fame spreading almost as suddenly as the sales of her album, some music executives see Smith as a potential Janis Joplin. Bob Dylan has paid a benedictory visit to her act in Manhattan. Now Patti is beginning a three-month tour that will take her music to a dozen cities across the country...
...really another Joplin. Janis was big and blowsy; Patti is a somewhat haunted-looking waif who stands 5 ft. 5 in. and weighs all of 95 Ibs. Janis liked to stretch her whisky-hoarse voice into a shredding scream now and then; Patti's vivid soprano has power to spare, but she often prefers to communicate in a throaty, low chant. What she does have in common with Joplin is a throbbing emotionality and naked intensity. Says Smith: "I want every faggot, grandmother, five-year-old and Chinaman to be able to hear my music and say YEAH...
...pushed every Black singer into Blackness and negro entertainers into negroness you couldn't jive when she said "you make me/feel" the blazers had to reply "gotta let a man be/a man" aretha said "when my show was in the lost and found/you came along to claim it" and joplin said "maybe...
...show that may not reopen if the strike is long. The union's refusal to work while negotiating has postponed Paul Anka's two-week S.R.O. one-man gig on Broadway. He was paying his musicians five times the union rate. Adela Holzer hoped to open Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha last week. Now it is in jeopardy, and so is its 37-member orchestra...
WHEN JANIS JOPLIN SANG, you could hear the years of whiskey and smoke she'd seen. And while Bruce Springsteen is usually as full-voiced as a coonhound hot on the trail, he has that same degenerate raspiness, hoarsely trailing off at the end of a line, or scream-whispering into a mike. In Springsteen's first two albums. Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, his voice jibed perfectly with his driving music and his lyric description of growing up in New Jersey. But his new album, Born To Run, is inconsistent...