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Toots and the Maytals. Reggae got soul, and this is the best band in the Boston area this week. Sunday, in Lenox, Mass., 4 p.m. at the Music...
...obscure the label, while his guests got a $6 vintage. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's beleaguered press aide, had special drinking habits too: he would not take his White House cocktails unless the glass bore the presidential emblem. He even wanted his coffee served in a cream-colored Lenox china cup and saucer bearing the presidential seal, identical to the cups Nixon used...
...sings funny songs, and has a good amateurish style. And his feel for the North Carolina whence the Taylors come (oh, alright, Chapel Hill) is better and earthier than his brother's, more into folklore and less into his navel. Judy Colline, who is appearing with him tonight at Lenox (7:30, tickets at Ticketron from $5.50 to $7:50), does a bang-up version of Dylan's "Daddy You've Been On My Mind," but her voice lamentably sounds like Lark cigarettes taste--sweet and syrupy And staler all the time...
...Generations of Brubeck is back in town, that is if Lenox, Mass, can be considered part of town. Brubeck, at least to me, has not written or played an original piece of music in the past ten years and with the possible exception of Take Five, I never thought he deserved any of the acclaim that critics usually shower upon...
...only has he weathered years and years of fruitless radical protest, and the anti-war movement almost from the beginning, but his vehicle--guitar-strumming folkiness--has an introverted, "I am pained" aspect that makes his mission doubly exhausting. Indeed, he didn't show up at a gig in Lenox last weekend, and reports have it that Ochs is highly difficult to get along with nowadays. Maybe it's worrying about the Dylan comparison (he makes it--nobody else does)--the political Ochs is a grand martyr. Anyway, I always found his songs too indulgent and War-is-not-healthy...