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...Four Americans and four Soviets will make the trip with cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back to those cold, cold phone calls to the vice president for sales and aggrandizement of Monstrocorp, or at least his secretary: "Have I got a marketing opportunity...
...Brothers. Accompaying Clancy will be four Irish musicians, Geraldine Dunne, Paul Grant, Thomas Keane and Martin Murray, in a celebration of Irish ballads and poetry. The songwriter will perform traditional folk tunes as well as more modern ones with the company, who will play instruments ranging from fiddle and mandolin to the flute, harp and pipe...
...convince everyone, though. Guitar Town, his seminal 1986 MCA album, was full of great tunes -- Springsteen on a two-lane blacktop -- and should have settled all conflicts of style. But, he reports, "I'm at war with the record company on the West Coast about using steel guitar and mandolin, and I'm at war with Nashville over drums being too loud. But I think everyone is starting to become more comfortable with what...
...woven by Jamie O'Hara, 37, and Kieran Kane, 38, go even deeper than the roots Travis usually cites. The O'Kanes, as the boys bill themselves, hail respectively from Toledo and Queens, N.Y., but they sing harmony like the Everly Brothers and play extended riffs on guitar and mandolin that kick tunes like One True Love out of the country and into the cosmos. Their two CBS albums (the recent Tired of the Runnin' has made it to No. 21 on the country charts and spawned a Top 5 single besides) are flawless but far from slick. At their...
Kevin McNamara (gultar, harmonica, mandolin, maracas, tambourine, amp) -- McNamara usually is assisted by "Hurricane" Dennis on the bass. They play at Holyoke Center once a week and often near the women's annex at the Coop. They just describe themselves as "fun rock-n-roll." Be careful when you're near them. Kevin likes to have fun with the crowd...