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...Adam and Eve were dancing to the blues. Blues is nothing but dance music." Still, there is a risk in making any sort of fusion album. Fusion music often ends up combining the worst elements of two styles rather than the best. But Burnside is too good of a musician to let that happen. As a blues man, he's the real thing: a former sharecropper who sounds like he belongs more on a Smithsonian Folkways recording than a concert stage. Some of the most magical moments on this latest album come when Burnside shuts off the incessant drum beat...
...what many considered an unwritten contract forged among artists including Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and other poets who put politically conscious poetry to music. At Newport he shouted back at hecklers who called him Judas; Dylan later proclaimed that he no longer considered himself an anti-war, singularly motivated musician and sought instead to represent only himself and his music...
...DePoe and Maher try to play in a station further away--such as the Harvard Square station, which they call a performance "hot spot"--they run the risk of traveling all the way there only to find that another musician has claimed the spot...
...group. This is how string chamber music was always meant to be performed. Each player eerily synchronizes perfectly with the rest, with every head swaying in time to the rhythm. In the intimate playing atmosphere they create with the audience the joy of music is clearly evident in the musician's faces. Recently formed in the fall of 1998 from among Harvard's most elite string players, the Player's superb performance is not surprising. Matching the individual musicians' technical abilities, their second concert (benefiting PBH-affiliated HARMONY) was a thoroughly engaging, well-coordinated effort...
...Crimson's ears-were nevertheless impressive. David Heath's "Darkness to Light," apparently a programmatic look at a bipolar emotional experience, offered a visually engaging tour of Glennie's complex stage setup, and concluded with a delicate, well-balanced duet between vibraphone and piano. Smith was a remarkably sensitive musician from start to finish...