Word: sourmash
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys are about the best band on the local bar circuit these days. They're mostly from Somerville but you'd swear after listening to them that they've gotten lost on a road trip between Rocky Mount, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., and somehow strayed up to Boston. They play exclusively country stuff, ranging from Hank Williams laments to Earl Scruggs bluegrass, and start the weekend shift at King's Thursday night. John Lincoln has almost perfected his twang and his fiddler and pedal steel guitarist are especially good. Hard to dance...
EARL SCRUGGS and his boys were at the Performance Center last week in what has to be one of the real high points of the P.C.'s career so far. John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys, who have been there several times before, came on first and under their strange assemblage of hats--ten-gallon, cowboy, Clyde Barrow--played their set surely and professionally. But somehow, it seemed like a Cambridgey re-write of basic blue-grass, even without the smooth easy transitions and just damn inspired playing of the Scruggs for contrast. There's something a bit flat...
...printers' wages at Harvard have risen only 28 per cent compared to a 35 per cent rise in the consumer price index. Support the printers' demand for a 9 per cent pay hike instead of the piddling 5.9 per cent suggested by Harvard. John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys play second bill. Through Saturday June 1 at The Performance Center...