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UNFORTUNATELY, SIMON'S ACHIEVEMENTS on record pose a frustrating problem. In person, he is unable to execute his music with the sophistication he accomplishes using a studio band. At the Passim this week. Simon is singing alone, accompanying himself on piano and on electric organ. While, on the night I saw him, many in the audience found his keyboard virtuosity and his unusual singing style satisfying enough, I missed his sidemen badly. His technique is impressive, but the results are generally less inspired than his recorded work. Unlike Jack Schechtman, a far-better-than-average singer of intelligent, romantic songs...
...Passim inhabits the old Club 47 at 47 Palmer St. (it's the narrow street between the Coop's main store and the annex). Passim is a combination bookstore and coffeehouse with entertainment. The entertainment runs mostly to rising troubadours-not quite folk music, but quite definitely singer-guitarists. Rosalie Sorrels is playing this week, twice a night, at 8:30-10:30. Their cover charges range from $2-$2.50, and their phone number...
...Club 47 is the Passim coffeehouse and Passim has been providing a steady stream of folk talent for Cambridge audiences since its inception. Last week, a young man named Townes Van Zandt entertained there, evoking memories of the young Dylan with tunes such as "Talking Thunderbird Blues". And there are currently indications of musical rejuvenation on other fronts as well...
Steve Goodman, Paul Geremin. Good folk music returns to the Square. Passim...
...Reading International (47 Brattle) does all right, its chief attraction being its many foreign periodicals. Passim (47 Palmer, on the site of the old Club 47) also has a good selection of foreign magazines, and some books...