Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This and the acoustic guitar also make up the insides of Expedition. But the trimmings here, electric harpsichord, dobro, drums and harmonica, put the whole album in a different cast. Willie Dixon called the music of the Chicago Blues All-Stars "Modernated blues," and the term "modernated" fits this record well, It jumps from Lester Flatt's "Git It On, Brother" to the almost-rock of "Out On The Side," maintaining a uniformity of tone which reflects its dual parentage. And it ends up in a very new, and good place...
...music which forms the baseline for the record is best typefied by Bill Munroe, who coined the term "bluegrass." (Actually a sub-division of Country & Western, Appalachia as opposed to Texas.) It is instrumentally dependent on banjo and guitar, with an occasional mandolin or harmonica. The nasal vocals revolve around lost love and mother, both topics being kept quite separate...
Lowell set his task as the impact of a year's time, and his book is a service to the temperament of his age--a record, an essence, and a unit. Lowell says, "the poems in this book are written as one poem. . . .My plot rolls with the season...
...record jacket is quite nice...
...McClellan's decision to make the universities take part in his investigation suggests that deeper probes are coming. Few Harvard deans imagined that last week's reply was going to satisfy the committee's appetite for information about the student rioters. The recent record McClellan's committee has chalked up offers meager encouragement. In its investigations of urban riots and of Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, the committee similarly began with innocuous requests for information about Federal programs. From there it moved into more sweeping hunts for signs of plots and Commie agitators. His recently-released report on summer riots offers...