Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prescott's major failing, aside from not placing his experiences as a freshman in some kind of a context, is the incredible mash he makes of sex. Evidently he was not too good at handling the business as a freshman 20 years ago, and in the interim has not made much improvement. A Darkening Green does not begin to explain the sexual problems facing his generation, all it does is show that (a) they existed (b) they obsessed Prescott perhaps 75 per cent of the time (c) they warped his approach to Harvard and (d) they made him an incredibly...
Less professional, less unique and easier to listen to is the band sharing the bill tonight: John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. These musicians are locals and they look it, but at the same time they play more faithful country music than you can hear anywhere, faithful to the Hank Williams and Bob Wills and Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson songs they perform. The only hint of deviation is the inexplicable New England flavor they give to their music, and in a Cambridge environment that's fitting. Vocalist Wright wrote a lot of their numbers, and they...
...than trying to emulate. He's even versatile enough to pull off country yodeling. Good voices are almost impossible to find in bands that haven't made it yet, as are intelligent ways of mixing, letting each instrument step out and hop over the wall of sound. The Sour Mash Boys have no such problem, which is why they record so well--when their tapes play Saturdays on WHRB, they sound more at home in studio conditions than most of the slick Nashville people who have been playing and selling for years...
...Sour Mash Boys and the Waylors complement each other--the famous part of the bill practiced and calm and in an easy category by itself, the local group sharp with nervous potential and playing straight conventional country. It's amazing that a truly quintessential country and the western band like John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys could have risen up in a town where people's idea of a real cowboy bard is James Taylor. But Cambridge isn't entirely unfriendly terrain for a pure and healthy country music to grow in, for these musicians are students...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. I have never heard John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys, an electric country band which in various forms frequented Cambridge night spots for years. But another Crimson reviewer with respectable credentials claims that they are not to be missed, especially since you can hear them cheaply and conveniently. Their next local appearance is Thursday, February 28, at King's on Boylston...