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...best composer to have his works played to death in the '70s: Scott Joplin (The Sting, The Red Back Book, piano rolls, E. Power Biggs' pedal-harpsichord arrangements, ad infinitum...
...western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
Orleans and Ian Mathews make up a highly-touted double bill at the slick Performance Center this week, Mathews playing Wednesday and Thursday only and Orleans Wednesday through Saturday. Orleans is a four-man band that used to back up Janis Joplin, and is smooth and well-rehearsed, fast but not harsh. Ian Matthews is a guitarist and singer from England who plays all sorts of stuff, mostly in the country-folk end of rock...
...emerging segment of America, financed a counterculture, and spawned a $2 billion industry. Its principal gift to those who were young in the 1960s was to provide a common means of expression-a common music, a common language, even a kind of cathartic theater in which a Janis Joplin assumed almost mythic dimensions as a tragic heroine and Dylan strolled the stage like an Orpheus. It is no secret that rock's classic era is gone forever, along with the social bonds that nurtured it. The current fragmentation of the rock audience certifies that. In fairness, it must...
Though Maggie is often called the Scottish Janis Joplin, and there is a superficial physical resemblance, they are dissimilar artistically and psychologically. Bell's voice lacks Joplin's extraordinary naked emotional intensity, nor can she match the eerie tripartite wails approaching chords that Joplin achieved in her final performances of Ball and Chain. Bell has a bigger voice with a hefty three-octave range, and she is unencumbered by the insecurity and corrosive self-loathing that crippled Joplin. Hers may well prove a more durable talent. "The danger in this business is hanging around with too many people...