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...imitation of James' "down" is unfair and misleading, as anyone will know who listens to the deft melodic twists and musical good humor of Livingston's first LP, especially the songs Carolina Day and Sit on Back. Alex's LP, released last week, divulges a freewheeling, lowdown style of music that lies somewhere between Hee Haw and New Orleans' Jazz Preservation Hall. Kate's album debut, Sister Kate, produced by Peter Asher and due for release next month, would be an accomplishment for a blues singer with years of experience. As it is, her weary lag and sag in Sweet...
...would like to compliment you on your fine article, "The Blue Collar Worker's Lowdown Blues" [Nov. 9]. I am a blue collar worker, and I know that pride in one's work is all a blue collar can hope to achieve. But this pride is being squeezed from one side by big management and from the other side by out-of-touch big-union labor leaders...
...like. How does it feel? What are the ways of getting high? How is grass obtained? This unpretentious little book, which has circulated in the pot subculture for the past four months and will soon be published as a regular paperback, comes up with just that sort of stone lowdown. It has something to say to those who have, to those who haven't but want to, and even to those who don't want to but would like to stay informed...
...BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND: THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW (Elektra). Few forms of music sound more authentic than lowdown blues, and Butterfield's band provides a refreshing collection of wild wails about oldtime, alltime troubles. While the style is no newer than the subjects, it is good to hear young musicians who have rediscovered the compelling mournfulness of harmonicas, saxophones and on-key melodies...
...records her suicide by drowning in the Medway. During the whole time at this school, Ferdinand refuses to utter a single word but raves to himself ferociously: "Speak? Speak? About what? . . . Christ! and all their stinking rottenness, and my buddies and the fags and the floozies and all their lowdown tricks...