Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forget that what they're stomping to isn't too far from the same tradition that brought you "Hee Haw" (though Wright is to Hee Haw as the Stones were to the Monkees). Anyway, just returned from the Big Apple, and featuring the incomparable Spacey John Macey on pedal steel, John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mask, Boys, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of Country, Country-Western, and Western Swing. A Country Dance, at Mather House Dining Hail, one dollar, BYOS, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday night...
...moonless nights by flashlight, seeing how many times we could go around a traffic circle without getting dizzy, riding on the top of the hood of my car down the beach with no driver (steering with our feet through the open sunroof, and a book on the accelerator pedal) or driving through the Tomoka swamp roads to watch the phosphorescence on the drooping Spanish moss. I was very curious to see him because rumor had it that he was engaged...
...band's music. It ran through "Revival" and into "Blue Skies" and when Duane was killed broke out into the album Brothers and Sisters with "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica" and "Pony Boy." For his solo album he picked up fiddler Vassar Clements (the best) and an old pedal steel player of Dolly Parton's, and some of the Allmans, to produce Highway Call. All together it's the finest collection of road music--sounds to drive by, preferably for long distances--ever assembled...
...however, is difficult to define. It's a kind of bluegrass-nasal which has been mellowed by his recent emphasis on family life. As for his back-up band, the center of attention will be focused upon a guitar mastermind whose credits include electric fiddle, in addition to lead, pedal steel, and slide guitar. Although you won't be able to see both Jackson and Bonnie in concert together, you can see them separately, monetary conditions permitting. As far as how they would have been together, that's left to the imagination. Orpheum theater, Oct. 18. Tickets are available...
Guts and Power. The Rodgers sound comes from 192 speakers in 29 cabinets, four of which are 30-in. woofers (for the deep pedal tones) located high in the flies above the stage. The output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic...