Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arlo emerged from his father's shadow with his debut of Alice's Restaurant Massacre at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Although he would take a number of tacks in the years to follow, Arlo defined his essential sensibility with this loquacious, sardonic, mock-shaggy dog approach to song writing. In 1969 the album Alice's Restaurant was made into a movie in which Guthrie starred as himself. In the 27 years since, he has released album after album, moonlighted on a short lived TV series, started his own record company, written literature for children, raised a family...
...again, Guthrie himself anticipates such comparison. "Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere...
Alone on the stage at Mama Kin's Music Hall, lead singer and songwriter Mark Kozelek opened the performance with a stirring, acoustic cover of the uplifting Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy." Characteristically, though, he slowed its traditionally buoyant tempo to a wistful drawl, and altered the inflection of his voice so as to awaken the song's theme from idyllic celebration into a brewing confusion, questioning, and loss. What does Christ's ready-made love actually mean? And what's to be done now with these damned drums...
Kozelek and Co. delivered a poignant two-hour, 11-song set that no individual album of theirs, nor any combination thereof, could equal in execution, creativity, or emotional dynamism. Patiently sinking from languor into chaos, from clean, spring notes to cyclones of distortion and pounding drums, the band revised and reinterpreted each song that they played, including a muscular Cowboy Junkies cover and an ad-libbed "White Christmas." Most notable were their plugged, spine-tingling rendition of "Evil," the freshly-penned and exuberant "New Song About a New Girl," and their closing ditty, the ever-arrogant and melancholy "Mistress" (sans...
...generated rhythm loops. Saadiq sings and plays the bass, the guitar and keyboards, Wiggins adds guitar work and vocals. Riley mainly plays drums and keyboards and is featured on the clarinet. Backing them up are live musicians playing instruments ranging from horns to flutes to pianos and organs. One song on the new album even features an orchestra...