Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slips out of the northern neck of Manhattan and flies to the left of the live Sound, one swoops in time onto the Golden River, and dodging its shining beauty, now right, now left, one comes after a hundred miles of lake, hill, and mountain, in the Old Bay State. Then at the foot of high Mt. Everett one takes a solemn decision: left is sweet, old Sheffield; but pass it stolidly by and slip gently right into tiny South Egremont which always sleeps. Then wheel right again and come to the Egremont Plain and the House of the Black...
...cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." She is similarly cavalier about the tools of her trade. "Other books say, 'Do not, do not! Do not try to make a souffle unless you have a souffle dish.' They make cooking sound like a fantastic science, and that makes a lot of people afraid to cook." Never fear, is Alice's message; to party givers who run short of plates, she suggests improvising with tinfoil-lined automobile hubcaps...
...NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GREY by Patrick Boyle. 256 pages. Grove. $4.95. Filial infighting, the sound of sibling revelry by night, Irish wakes, corpse-rooms, tippling grannies, occasional flashes of savage perception and true humor...
THOSE FABULOUS PHILADELPHIANS by Herbert Kupferberg. 257 pages. Scribner. $7.95. A chronicle of the Philadelphia Orchestra from turn-of-the-century birth pangs to Eugene Ormandy's reflections on the famed Philadelphia sound...
Stylistically, The Band is Country and Western rock, with mandolin, jew's harp, and some very funky ragtime piano to hint at the down home atmosphere, while drums, organ, and electric guitar give the music a drive which CandW does not possess. The album is technically sound and it is the kind of music you can hum in your mind when you're falling asleep in lecture. Each cut is very professionally arranged and performed to project the atmosphere which the Lyrics describe. As a unit then, the Band works. But judged according to standards set by people like Cream...