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...guitars were dresses then folk singer Ben Harper would be a diva. They're not. But Harper is still one of the most evocative and poignant vocalists alive today. Changing guitars from Weissenborn to Martin and back again during last Tuesday's concert at the Avalon, Harper has enough talent to quench any false belief that the parade of over ten exotically-shaped stringed instruments was proffered as compensation or distraction for lackluster performance ability...
...intense, and talented. On his debutalbum, welcome to the cruel world, hedisplays a remarkably developed songwriting style,putting his personal imprint on traditionalfolkish melodies. While his arrangements are notentirely similar to anything else going to today(Harper plays a triad of acoustic instruments: thedobro, the acoustic guitar, and the Weissenborn, ahollow-neck lap slide guitar) it is easilyaccessible enough to reach a wide audience...
...lacking the "special soul and the kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England's Geoffrey Parsons and Martin Isepp, Germany's Hertha Klust and Gerhard Weissenborn, Italy's Antonio Beltrami...
Deadline. In Gainesville, Fla., Journalism Student Lee Weissenborn visited the local draft board to pick up some information for a story, was handed an induction notice...
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