Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs ("La Mouche"). It's not all uptempo, though. Cassius's clean, even sparse, beats shift into low gear occasionally in tunes like "Nulife". No pre-millennial tension in 1999: the French have made fun in dance music respectable again. This last tango in Paris has legs...
...came to Club Passim barefoot and left a star? She played last. And reuniting earlier in the show with their banjos and mandolins were the Charles River Valley Boys, Harvard alumni from the 60's. At its 40th Anniversary Concert, Club Passim looked back, looked forward, and its music squirmed between the weight of history and the multiple identities of folk in the nineties...
...exhort the masses. The emcee and speakers at Passim's 40th anniversary concert emphasized that the club was "as good as it ever was," yet this impulse to confirm folk's endurance suggests insecurity over the more insular, less underground but perhaps less relevant position of Americana folk music today...
...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
...Berklee School of Music...