Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tops as Moonface's gun moll. Playing the frocked gangster, Bill Nolan displays a hilarious good-hearted gooniness. Ann Ungar is an entertainer playing an entertainer; though she is sometimes a little too charming, she's splendid as Reno. As Billy and Hope, Richard von Rueden and Kerry McCarthy sing well, but the shallowness of the female lead at least can't be entirely the fault of the authors -- McCarthy looked completely disinterested through the whole show...
...plays "waring Blender Blues," and see Little Feat, talented, but less than heralded. As for Butter, hope Better Days has improved over their appearance of last summer, when Amos Garret couldn't play a simple blues phrase on guitar, and old folkie Geoff Muldaur proved he could no more sing the blues than Diana Ross can sing Billie Holiday...
Rush was tough in those days. Toughness was his hallmark. There he'd be on an album cover: blue jeans, cowboy boots, striding down the railroad tracks playing his guitar. Or looking out over something with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. He might sing Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" ["I've walked 47 miles of barbed wire, use a cobra snake for a necktie...."] He'd sing songs like that in his guttural voice...
...Marlboro Man, and every now and then he'd turn kind of wistful and sad --the cowboy sitting by the campfire at the end of the day -- and sing a soft song about a place he'd visited or a girl he'd loved. But he'd always get back to toughness: ["Them big city women sure do make me tried. Got a handful of gimmee. Got a mouthful of much obliged."]. He didn't sing social protest songs like Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie. He was scornful of things in general...
SOME OF THE SONGS, most of them simple enough to sight-sing, and many of them relatively unknown, illustrate Seeger's musicological points. But I was most pleased at private discoveries--finding that a denunciation of an MTA fare hike someone once sang for me was originally a Progressive Party campaign song from the 1948 Boston mayoral race, or recognizing "The House Carpenter," an English Ballad, as a source or relative of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather." There are enough songs for everyone to make similar discoveries of his own, or just to revel in familiar things, like...