Word: musically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class of 44 came back to Harvard this week and found the college changed but on the whole "remarkably the same." As they drank and talked and danced to the music of a jazz band, they talked about things that had changed and mostly about today's students...
People who have watched popular music for any length of time know that it tends to move in circles. Once the decadence of a particular form of music has been generally recognized, there is a return to the basics, a rediscovery of roots. This period of retrenchment is necessary before a new form can take over. It happened about seven years ago, when the initial momentum of R&R died and was temporarily replaced by "folk music," à la early Dylan. Now that the excesses of the Gilded Age of psychedelia have become boring, the same thing is going...
...provoke a shift in the mind frame to "fiddle and banjo"--the guts of bluegrass. This and the acoustic guitar also make up the insides of Expedition. But the trimmings here, electric harpsichord, dobro, drums and harmonica, put the whole album in a different cast. Willie Dixon called the music of the Chicago Blues All-Stars "Modernated blues," and the term "modernated" fits this record well, It jumps from Lester Flatt's "Git It On, Brother" to the almost-rock of "Out On The Side," maintaining a uniformity of tone which reflects its dual parentage. And it ends...
...music which forms the baseline for the record is best typefied by Bill Munroe, who coined the term "bluegrass." (Actually a sub-division of Country & Western, Appalachia as opposed to Texas.) It is instrumentally dependent on banjo and guitar, with an occasional mandolin or harmonica. The nasal vocals revolve around lost love and mother, both topics being kept quite separate...
...JUST AS Expedition rejects the maudlin sentimentality which is the point of C&W, it is also turned off to the missionary impulse which ties down a great deal of popular music. Dillard and Clark are not out to convert anyone; they are having an easy-going good time with their music, and that in itself is enough. "From Don't Come Rollin...