Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO (Columbia). Country-western purists are likely to yell "fake" at this album. True, the Byrds don't sound exactly like Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, but they do perform the material with simplicity and in a relaxed, folky manner. Woody Guthrie's socialist hymn to Pretty Boy Floyd gets an authentic bluegrass treatment here, and Blue Canadian Rockies, an old Gene Autry tune, will bring back memories of the Hollywood cowboy astride his horse Champion, galloping through "the golden poppies. . . 'round the banks of Lake Louise." Two Bob Dylan songs, Nothing Was Delivered...
WEST (Epic). West spent eight months rehearsing in a deserted theater in Crockett, Calif., before coming up with this album. The music they found there is warm, lyric and natural. Its sound is country-western flavored strongly with folk. Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what...
When Franklin Murphy decided to step down as chancellor of U.C.L.A., the California board of regents could have followed the normal practice in finding a successor: appoint an acting president, sound out candidates, eventually settle on a president who had made a name elsewhere. Instead, the regents satisfied themselves, faculty and students by staying on campus. Early this month, Charles E. Young, U.C.L.A.'s vice chancellor, officially took charge of the 28,000-student campus. Only eight years out of graduate school, Young is, at 36, the nation's youngest head of a major university...
...like illness, sometimes affords its survivors unique insights. Sculptor Lucas Samaras, 32, grew up in Macedonia during World War II and the Greek civil war. Now a U.S. citizen, he still remembers "the bombings, the hiding, my aunt's ripped belly, the sound of executions, the strange pride in being visited by a catastrophe...
Shankar should know. After the Beatles introduced the resonant sound of the stringed sitar to rock in Norwegian Wood (1965) and their imitators began twanging along, Shankar suddenly found himself the hero of the pop, hippie and fashion worlds. Then, just as suddenly, the fad passed. The teeny-boppers returned to their Bee Gees, and the hippies began playing Erik Satie at their acid parties. Though dismayed by the abruptness of it all, Shankar realized that it was probably just as well. With good reason. Horror of horrors, he confided, "they took me for a pop musician...