Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing a ballad to counter his campaign, and even silenced his supporters who tried to interrupt them. The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign...
LATER, the author reminds us of the liberation of American music which occurred around 1954. Elvis Presley started moving his hips, white song writers raided black lyrics to send toned-down versions across the country. Chubby Checker taught the rich how to twist. Today Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have brought the feeling of soul to white bodies from Boston to Seattle...
...addition, Beck has learnt his blucs from B.B. King and like the great master he loves to accumulate tension until a song builds up to such a pressure as to appear to burst apart from within...
...easy relationship in performance came during an instrumental number called "Mother's Rice Pudding." Ron Wood, who says that he usually sticks to the "basic bass progressions on the blues stuff," suddenly opened up and played a bristling rock-bass solo. This has since been included in the song, and the number which started as a jam one night in San Francisco continues to grow...
...this discord, Beck, stroke of genius, does a willowing eddy of tune straight out of B.B. King. An abrupt stop again, Beck thumps the side of his guitar and bounces on his knees, Waller slams down harshly twice, Beck reels off long liquid strings picking up the early song tune. He starts a long uncoiling flourish with flickering electronics breaking the flow. Waller trundles mildly on the drums, Wood plays briefly on bass, Hopkins plunks furiously on piano and Beck is rolling in the background playing what sounds like a 20's melody...