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...performance lasted around 90 minutes, and Chung played some of her favorite works. She was also called back on stage for an encore. A Washington Post review of the concert described it as "creating a perfect balance between pure flash and lyric poetry...
...Aznavour still looks great at 58, with his small, powerful body sheathed in black, his ready-for-anything Cagney stance, the pouty lower lip that all chansonniers are issued at birth. Ever the actor as singer, he will poke or sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best...
...still playing oldies shows and medium-size concert dates and bumping around the boonies, and he is still hollering defiance. Last week, at a joint called the Lonesome Armadillo in Roseville, Calif., Jerry Lee got to a part of the Trouble in Mind lyric that goes "Put me six feet in the ground" and interpolated, "I throw the dirt right in your face...
Throughout their LP The Days of Wine and Roses (Ruby Records) the band has flashes of brilliance, producing snatches of driving guitar play. But repeatedly, experimental aspirations sabotage singer Steve Wynn's songwriting. On "When You Smile" both the lyric continuity and the rhythm are broken by an instrumental intrusion. Even on the closing title cut the finest on the album--the bond puts its propulsive playing on hold white it goes pioneering...
...album is terrific and some an error, rather than all being essentially mediocre. Even the concert didn't preclude a future performance of quality. Wynn's songwriting has improved and Down There (as well as parts of the show) demonstrated the group's talent for matching riff to lyric. With maturity they ought to gain control over the new density of sound and their attention to instrumentation. Then they should be unstoppable...