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...more reason to view alternative medicine with fewer snickers and a couple more nods. And while we're nodding, better do something about that migraine. Cut out the coffee, take the herb feverfew twice a day. If that doesn't work, there's always the old Chinese gent uptown with the needles...
...been together for 17 years, gigging at first, in the words of lead singer and co-writer David Hidalgo, "for a case of beer." Mexican American by birth, the band's original members took their initial inspiration from the guitar-monster music of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, the uptown scampery of the Stones, the folk-inflected harmonies of Buffalo Springfield. Mexican music didn't count. "We didn't want to hear that when we grew up," says Perez. "We wanted to hear James Brown...
...former mayor of New York City I feel uniquely qualified to manage your university. As I see it, you've got your Harvard Yard, which is like Brooklyn, Eliot House is uptown Manhattan and Winthrop is downtown, and Adams is Queens. How am I doing? You've got Kirkland-the Bronx, Mather-Staten Island, and the Quad, which is, I don't know, out somewhere in New Jersey...
That's a knowing bit of self-mockery you hear in the voice, making room for the accent that would brand him as a sure New York boy even if his music weren't so uptown all on its own. Simon is well aware of his penchant for self-reflection -- self-immersion sometimes -- and knows how to undercut and play against it, as anyone who's seen him larking around on his producer pal Lorne Michaels' Saturday Night Live shows over the years can instantly attest. The man who wrote Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard...
That's a good country ending for a typical kind of country story. What Brooks and Black share, along with a winning penchant for hit making, is a gift for finding something fresh in the familiar, something timely in the predictable and timeworn. In uptown kinds of music, that quality is called soul. Down home, it's just known as country. Pure country...