Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember Newport?" "Yeah, I remember Newport. All that madonna stuff. What a bore." The audience was content to listen to her but she was jumpy, assuring everyone not to worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and an a cappella "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -- very competent, sort of boring. She also sang "Diamonds and Rust" from her new album which is explicitly...
...sense of evil in the world, and the ultimate triumph over it, that gives Jimmy Cliff's music its vitality. This moral struggle between right and wrong, the forces of oppression and freedom, was missing from last Saturday's concert. Perhaps Jimmy Cliff was too happy a man to sing pain. A man who started his career back in 1962 and is just now cresting as a star, certainly deserves happiness. But most probably the crowd was too happy--happy getting it's money's worth from good music--to listen to pain and torment. In any case, the catharsis...
...Steel Mill, Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom) as frequently as personnel. "I've gone through a million crazy bands with crazy people who did crazy things," Springsteen remembers. They played not only clubs and private parties but firemen's balls, a state mental hospital and Sing Sing prison, a couple of trailer parks, a rollerdrome, the parking lot of a Shop-Rite and under the screen during intermission at a drive-in. A favorite spot for making music, and for hanging out, was Asbury Park...
Even before Springsteen's first album was released in 1973, Appel was already on the move. He offered the NBC producer of the Super Bowl the services of his client to sing The Star-Spangled Banner. Informed that Andy Williams had already been recruited, with Blood, Sweat & Tears to perform during half time, he cried, "They're losers and you're a loser too. Some day I'm going to give you a call and remind you of this, then I'm going to make another call...
Vivid if not yet widely shared causes go neglected but beckon urgently again: hunger, political reform, environmental issues, inequalities and injustices, economic traumas. The "decline of absolutes" itself is often merely the result of pluralism. "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a pluralistic land?" asked Ethicist Paul Ramsey. Pluralism, the sense that "any number can play," whether in religion or ways of life, will not go away. Father John Courtney Murray called it "the human condition." Every day in every way we are aware that "your" and "my" absolutes sometimes clash. Antiabortionists and pro-abortionists...