Word: spider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recorded under the guidance of Willie Murphy and Dave Ray, both of whom should be remembered for their great work with Spider John Koerner in the sixties, the album is about half blues, and half old pop tunes, with only two new songs (which comprise two-thirds of Bonnie's song-writing output). One of the originals, "Finest Lovin' Man" is a straight blues, featuring exciting instrumental work by Bonnie, Junior Wells on harp, and Danny Freebo on Bass. "Thank You" is a pretty ballad in the Curtis Mayfield vein, with Bonnie on piano and Willie Murphy playing a beautiful...
...song for my tastes, but is redeemed by the sympathetic vocal interplay between Bonnie and Willie. Her remake of John Koerner's "I Ain't Blue", one of the record's high points, creates an entirely different, but no less powerful, feeling than the original (which was on the Spider John Koerner-Willie Murphy album, Running, Jumping, and Standing Still a turly great record that is currently available for $1.98 around the Square...
...than a million copies sold. It evokes an instinctive materialism based more on the senses than the intellect, and the flesh becomes identified with the sensuous geography of his native country: "I have been marking your body's white atlas/ with crosses of fire./ My mouth was a spider which crossed, hiding itself./ In you, behind you, fearful, thirsty...
...trans cans for heat, the Cornell band sat in the Stadium playing scales to keep its instruments warm. Halftime came, with more cha-cha dances while the Big Red band marched from a map of the United States into a perfect replication of the web of a Black widow spider...
...Dane with a baby face, skillfully alternates with Cragun in many dramatic roles: when Cragun is Romeo, Madsen is Mercutio and vice versa. Backing them both up in the rotational order is a German dancer, Heinz Clauss, whose black-clad Eugene Onegin seems as subtly menacing as an elegant spider, as sickly romantic as a young Werther...