Word: mornin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Kris Kristofferson, 36, country music composer (Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down), singer, movie actor (Cisco Pike, Blume in Love) and former Rhodes scholar; and Rita Coolidge, 28, smoky-voiced blues singer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif...
...licking goodness of "Hoe- Down," in acknowledgement of Poco's antecedents, "Well, I'm goin' to a hoe-down--And kick up my heels--Go all night and never slow down--Yes, I love how it feels." Three more songs were played in rapid succession: "It's a Good Mornin'," "Railroad Days," and "Old Forgiver," gone almost before they could sink in. "It's a Good Mornin" is country funk, the hard core of the Poco music, "Railroad Days" and "Old Forgiver" belong to new guitarist Paul Cotton, who replaced tour-weary Jim Messina about a year ago. Cotton...
Died. Jimmy Rushing, 68, blues singer, whose high-pitched vocalizing was featured by the Count Basic band and other groups for 47 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his urgent style popularized songs like Good Mornin' Blues and Coin' to Chicago, Rushing's bulky frame inspired his theme, Mr. Five by Five...
...what a beautiful mornin...
...Hart, complete with humming chicks in the back ground, Blue Moon is schmaltzy but fun: a lighthearted and amusing wave at an era that preceded Dylan's birth. Even better are his versions of Paul Simon's The Boxer and Gordon Light-foot's Early Mornin' Rain, the one just a shade more punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song Copper Kettle, as well...