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They are working, each on his own, the same territory. The music will sound familiar to anyone who has a long memory and an affection for tradition. It has shades of folk, honky-tonk, urban blues and revisionist country, but all of it can be called highly personal rock 'n' roll. These tunes have passion, intimacy and a shared but singular voice: the voice of the new troubadours...
...suffered only superficial injuries and took just one day off before resuming previews for this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically inclined credited his survival to the producers' having brought in five Shinto priests from Japan, before performances started, to purify the Marquis Theater amid the neon honky-tonk of Times Square. Skeptics complained that the blessing should have averted the freak accident altogether...
...Together we're better than so-so/Each of us is a virtuoso" will not likely be mistaken for Cole Porter. But the writing is slick and witty enough to slide even the silliest rhyme right past us. The music plays lightly with American music genres--pop, honky-tonk, blues--but stays mostly within the Broadway tradition. It's not memorable, but it is tuneful...
...surpise that last Thursday night, two Harvard grads were hanging out with 150 Harvard people. But they were nowhere near Wall Street. They were closer to Central Square. Actually in the heart of Cental Square, in a small honky-tonk called T.T. the Bear's Place. And they haven't got any money, or any power or prestige, really. Come to think of it, they weren't even hanging out. They were playing rock and roll...
...KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS: PICKIN' ON NASHVILLE (Mercury/PolyGram). Quirky, impolite country music by a new band that respects tradition but takes its own route back to the roots. Classics by the likes of Bill Monroe and Don Gibson are burnished with a hard-driving, honky-tonk brio that suits the Headhunters' original material just fine...