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...Johnny Cash ... On the Road" stars country-and-Western troubadour Cash, includes Kate Smith, Don Ho and Paul Lynde. A country-music concert medley with Cash's touring show provides the grand finale...
...Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan's Bitter End, Los Angeles' Troubadour, and San Francisco's Fillmore auditorium. Is he about to wander into popular success in the U.S. too? Lightfoot shrugs. "The public gets around to you," he says. "You don't get around to them...
Greek bard, Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has sung for his supper and moved on. But lately, that style has been in danger of fading. The modern bards team up with commercial rock groups, or pa rade into well-publicized seclusion, or go wandering in their own psyches in stead of the countryside...
...Phantom Troubadour...
...sell out auditoriums like Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and London's Wigmore Hall for guitar-lute recitals. Young people, especially, like his old-shoe manner-he slouches spread-legged in a chair, chatting and joking with the audience between selections-and look to him as a sort of troubadour of time-tested musical values. "The young love the clarity, order and logic of my music," he says. "They are people who are looking not only forward but back." People, in short, like Bream himself...