Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soars and dips smoothly, apparently without artifice. He plays a long and difficult set as if he'd suddenly heard the phrases in his head and they fit together each time. It is perhaps this technical facility that bothers critics--there are certainly moments on Caliente (in the song "Fireflies" for one) when Barbieri's music comes close to sounding like the soundtrack for an ad for one of those fancy sports cars that handle so well on Alpine roads...
...skeptical smiles faded, Seeger sat down and collected himself, pulling back his thinning wedge of shaggy gray hair. The discussion continued cordially, peppered with an occasional song...
...which brings me to a certain fear I have, the fear of misunderstanding. Today--taking in the spectacle of Suze Craig in a terrible mess for doing nothing more heinous than things I do on every teaching day--today, I feel just a bit desperate. A line of a song from the sixties comes back to me: "Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!" Larry Weinstein
...like what you already expect to find. For the rest, it is only a good place to go and spot the shapes and forms of materializing plans, coming things and future values coalesce on a local stage to bouncy music under colored lights. As the lyrics to the title song...
...center of the rock swarm was the Troubadour, a dank Santa Monica Boulevard bar that offered newcomers three-song auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...