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...earmarks of a comeback. Hicks has revived the name of his old band for the occasion - although for some reason it's Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks rather than His Hot Licks - and the album is studded with guest appearances from Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, Brian Setzer, Ricki Lee Jones and Tom Waits. But worthy though their contributions may be, they are mostly window dressing; Midler's terrific vocal on "Strike It While It's Hot" notwithstanding, nothing here really needs the star wattage to justify it. Hicks has written a batch of tunes as strong...
...Scientists have long studied the horrendous impact that fire has on the rain forest. Alberto Setzer of the Brazilian space agency, inpe, shocked the world when he used satellite imagery to show the extent of the burning in 1988. Out-of-control burning first brought me to Brazil in 1989 when I wrote the cover story for the Sept. 18 issue of Time called ?Torching the Amazon.? I have made several trips to parts of this giant ecosystem in neighboring countries since then, but this was my first trip back to the Brazilian Amazon, and there was, amid the rising...
...season that defined Harvard Ballroom in many ways. By this time, the recent resurgence of swing had taken its hold on the country. Bands like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Squirrel Nut Zipper, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies led the rise of the oldtime blend of jazz and blues...
...swing revival band but owes more to the punk movement of the 80s and the ska of the 90s. The "similar bands" Liebert mentions are not at all similar, except in the fact that they are bands: Squirrel Nut Zippers are a ragtime/Dixieland effort, and the Brian Setzer Orchestra is a rockabilly throwback--all three often lumped together by neo-swing detractors. The Voodoo Daddies are a great choice for Springfest this year--enrollment in Literature and Arts B-80: Swing Era and the success of swing lessons offered around campus are good evidence for that--and certainly more applicable...
...invited a Violent Femmes clone to Springfest. Instead we have Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, whose music tries to revive swing--which, as a popular music, has been dormant for some 50 years now. With the help of several similar bands--most notably Squirrel Nut Zipper and the Brian Setzer Orchestra--and the applause of countless conservative culture warriors, they've been fairly successful. However, it's worth asking if their music is really so different from that of the Violent Femmes of the world...