Word: laid-back
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Away from the cameras, Chase looks more like a laid-back graduate student than a TV star. His shirt is rumpled, his hair unruly and his eyes filled with mischief. Even in casual conversation, he is a shameless put-on artist, a comic con man negotiating for a laugh. If he wanted, Chevy Chase could probably sell aluminum siding to a roaming wagonload of gypsies...
Things are better now. Buffett, 30, belongs to a wave of laid-back Dixie performers, including Oklahoma-born James Talley and Tennessean Sid Selvidge, who are just now getting wide recognition. Buffett's seventh album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, is 20th among country LPs, and last month he packed off on tour as the opening act with the Eagles...
...hard stuff. At Back Room at the Idler (495-1551), Reeve Little (Sunday) and Paul Rishell (Tuesday) are laid-back folkies; Jon McAuliffe (tonight), Papa John Kolstad (Friday) and Chris Rhodes and Koko Dee (Monday) are bluesy; and Derek Huntington (Saturday) is pot luck. Music starts every night around...
...distinguish the different jazz styles today resembles the practiced patter of a used-clothes saleswomen. "Contemporary" replies the hey-man at the other end of the telephone when you ask what the well-noised jazz-listener will be hearing tomorrow. Contemporary? What's contemporary? The voice will reply--sounding laid-back of course--"Like, uh, sort of late 50's and early 60's--it was too advanced for them then so they didn't appreciate...
...Great band, laid-back but they ain't laying idle back there, have you heard their latest album...