Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly. His slow blues featured a lot of slurring of words, another major blues vocal tradition but mishandled by him so that it became merely irritating. (If you want to hear what slurring can do, in terms of veiled threats, innuendo, and the like, listen to Jimmy Reed sing "Take Out Some Insurance...
...band, unfortunately, doesn't have Bloomfield or Bishop, and that's the origin of its many problems. Butterfield has essentially teamed with an old folkie named Geoff Muldaur and they are sharing the band. My first impulse on hearing Muldaur sing was that he was in the band because he had bought all the equipment, or because he had something on Butterfield. Whatever Muldaur can do, he cannot sing blues. He sings with a false casualness that does not disguise the weakness of his voice, which begins to sound like a pubescent thirteen year old's. He is devoid...
...that nearly hit me coming our of the Garden onto Causeway St. The cab driver is a trifle taken back, but once he knows where I've come from, he warms up considerably. "What about that Jagger fella? Y'know I usta get sing in a band, a ways back. Usta get laid twenty times a night." The proprietors of the flowers shop are helpful. Particularly when it becomes apparent that six or eight dozen flowers wouldn't be nearly enough. I decide to spend the whole thirty dollars, and come away with a beautiful assortment of blue and yellow...
Alan Arkin's Barney is a composite of small, shrewd gestures and intuitions, as in a marvelous sequence where he watches Bobbi sing What the World Needs Now Is Love with a mounting mixture of apprehension, thwarted lust and concern that the little old lady next door will hear. Arkin is a vast improvement over James Coco's preening, keening act in the Broadway Lovers, and he has Barney's look meticulously right, down to the monogrammed pocket handkerchief he wears in the pocket of his blue business suit...
...telephone company employee, Taylor was raised in Rahway, N.J., and traces a good deal of his relentless drive to his days in the local high school. "Two of my classmates went to college and ten went to Sing Sing," he says jokingly. Taylor got a scholarship to Brown University, where he took a B.A. in Renaissance history and a master's in U.S. economic history. At one time he planned a teaching career. Instead, at age 25, he went to work as a trainee for The First Boston Corp., an investment banking firm, where he quickly rose...