Word: ridin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BAKSHI AND COMPANY must be blatant since they do not reach below the surface of the books to convey what Tolkien was really writing about: The books succeed, despite admittedly two-dimensional characterization and large doses of sword fightin' and horse ridin', because Tolkien subtly leads you into his world and somehow makes you care about what goes on there, makes you afraid of the evil which threatens it, and involves you in the adventures as if you were there. Bakshi's world is merely a cartoon, somehow you can't get around that whether you know the books...
...THERE IS anything different about Ridin' High from his previous efforts, it is that the hard edge of bitterness and scorn that sometimes sliced through the genial flamboyance is gone. Success has made Walker a little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids...
...this isn't very complex, but then neither are most of the ordinary human problems and emotions that Walker sings about. Those simple preoccupations, like Walker himself, are unsophisticated and unadorned. For the most part Ridin' High is Walker at his best: raunchy, unrestrained, spontaneous, and terribly human, grabbing life and hugging it madly. This record isn't awfully deep, but it has an irresistible charm. Most important, it's a lot of fun, and that's all Jerry Jeff Walker ever really meant...
...Deserts are psychedelic. But Garcia soon left the band, and after a stint touring with the Dead, the Riders began to work up a following of their own. But by this time, sans Garcia, they'd lost their spatial the dimension--their music became more linear and descriptive, more ridin-my-pony-to-San-Antone, with that Buddy Gage steel soaring nimbly overhead...
Wallace wants to make a permanent home in the Democratic Party, which he feels has moved closer to his thinking after the McGovern debacle. "We're back in the party for better or for worse, or, as we say down here, 'ridin' or walkin',' " says Michael Griffin, 25, an energetic Wallace aide. "The Governor is like Minnie Pearl when she says, 'Ah'm jes glad to be here.' Party stalwarts who once denounced Wallace as a bigot are now treating him like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with...