Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar ways. In fact, the photo, "The Blind Accordian Player", taken in 1945, was unmistakably used for a painting that was also called "The Blind Accordian Player". In both Shahn has chosen the same angle, and we see Accordian, expressive hands, and face, with the top of the musician's head cut off--an influence of photographic framing, on painting...
...born in the same summer in a village in the American Southwest. One dies young; five live to manhood. They separate, though bound together by their origin and by a mistress shared serially. No one is named. Each is referred to by his profession: the actor, the poet, the musician, the painter. That is four; the last, the curator of these memories, is a teacher of English...
What happens to a musician after an accident? Dylan became more serene and reflective. Beck too has changed; maybe only slightly, but he's changed. Perhaps he doesn't want to be labeled as a fossil, a throwback to the late '60's. Whatever the reason, his music appears to be smoother and more refined. At least when he's in the studio...
...there's one thing though, that separates a real heavy from just another freak musician, it's the live performance, the concert. It's an event of an almost political nature--the stage becomes the performer's soapbox and he must sway the crowd using both his presence and his musical message. Thus, last Monday night at the Music Hall, the 'audience anticipated the arrival of Beck as if he were a retired politician returning to the political arena...
Well, Beck's back. His new album, while though not the best he's done, shows that he is still the English guitarist. With Led Zeppelin breaking up, Eric Clapton playing as a studio musician somewhere in London, and many other former competitors dead from heroin overdose, Beck should gain the commercial success he has long deserved. Remember, Jeff Beck discovered Rod Stewart; not the other way around...