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Their second album, Through The Morning, Through The Night has just been released. Again, there is a mixture of rock and C and W, but the proportions are quite different. They have about twice as many sidemen on this album, so that the sound itself is much more complex. And with the addition of several "pickers," the emphasis has shifted further away from rock...
...world. He seems to have brought that new-found relaxation to the recording sessions in Nashville. None of the songs were written down; he had them all in his head, and before recording, would go over them in his soft-spoken way with a hand-picked crew of Nashville sidemen, taking suggestions occasionally from them, or showing them how it should go by playing the guitar or piano. Once the taping began, he was smooth and professional. "Some performers take all day to get a recording right," says Guitarist Pete Drake. "Dylan usually gets them on the first or second...
...Sonny Boy's sidemen and perhaps the most underrated Bluesman of the post war era was singer-guitarist Elmore Jones. Indicative of his anonymity is the fact that it is virtually impossible to get his albums in the United States (though some are now being imported from England). Elmore Jones played slide guitar. This means that he used a special open string tuning in D or G, with a metal ring of some kind on his little finger. Recently an English group led by Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, have recorded albums in which they do exact copies of some...
During more than 50 years in the business, Society Bandleader Meyer Davis has gone bouncing along, adapting his sidemen to such mysterious rites as the shimmy, the black bottom, the big apple and the lindy. Now Meyer and his boys are constrained to blare out frug and watusi beats to accompany the debutantes. But the end is in sight, he says hopefully. "A lot of younger people are getting tired of that terrible noise," he remarked in Manhattan. "It's the death of conversation. Besides, boys are beginning to realize that it's sort of pleasant to hold...
...week, Ellington and his band played his concert of sacred music, composed 18 months ago to demonstrate the Duke's belief that "every man prays in his own language." This week the Ellington troupe is off on a 30-city tour to play his latest showcases for his sidemen...