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Album II, Loudon Wainwright III, Atlantic...
Recent albums by three other folk-blues singers, Chris Smither, George Gerdes, and Loudon Wainwright, also bring to public attention exceptional individual talents which have, until now, enjoyed only limited audiences. Chris Smither has often performed in Boston, and, for several reasons, is the most likely of the three to meet wide acceptance...
GEORGE GERDES, a schoolmate and friend of Loudon Wainwright's, has also tried to learn a lot from Bob Dylan, inviting a comparison which is perhaps unfair. He has the same narrow vocal range, which he stretches around the edges. He uses harmonica in the same upbeat, folksy way although he plays both it and guitar much better than Dylan. On the whole, however, Gerdes is less successful, at least on his album Obituary--he is simply not as intense a folk or blues performer...
...Loudon Wainwright. Goddard Chapel. Tufts U. 8, 10:30, March...
Penderecki: The Devils of Loudon (Philips, 2 LPs; $11.96). Focusing his threnodies and oratorios on man's worst moments (Hiroshima, Auschwitz, to name but two), Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki has emerged in recent years as the Hieronymus. Bosch of contemporary music. Here, in his first opera, he examines the nightmarish moods surrounding the torture and execution (at the stake) of a falsely accused 17th century French provincial priest. Penderecki's lurid vision of hell on earth rivals Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu. Splendidly performed by the Hamburg State Opera, Devils is clearly the operatic record...