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...Kenny Baker, like Bill a native of Kentucky and a former coal miner, whose musical soul is so in harmony with that of Monroe that the two maintain an almost unbearable spiritual communication on stage. Also featured with the group are Bill's son, James, on guitar, and Rual Yarbrough from Alabama, on banjo. One can listen hard and still hear only a fraction of the genius in Bill Monroe's music. "You don't know what it is, though, until you play it," as one ex-Blue Grass Boy put it-"it is natural music...
Edge of the Swamp. A lanky (6 ft. 5 in.), all-business bachelor, Drake himself is trying to learn to swing a little with the music set in Los Angeles. But it does not come naturally to a fellow who was born Philip Yarbrough (his assumed name, he says, "sounds better") in Georgia on the edge of Okefenokee swamp. What did come naturally, though, was the sound of music. At an early age, he was conducting a fantasy disk-jockey show at home, playing his favorites-gospel and country, Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high...
...EMILY, WHENEVER I MAY FIND HER (RCA Victor). Surrounding himself with guitars and some of the top folk songs. Glenn Yarbrough lends his easy style to the pleas, pleasures and protests of today's youth. But while he shines in the light numbers, he lacks the involvement of the Now Generation when he takes on the lyrics of such angry young minstrels as Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs...
...proprietors here," said Lou Gottlieb, Ph.D., last week to an audience at Manhattan's Basin Street East, "have asked that we knock some of the polish off our act. We have succeeded beyond all dreams." This was, in a sense, true; for Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks...
...Cupids. Gottlieb's two partners, if not ready for chairs at Harvard, also have backgrounds creditably academic. Hassilev, 28, a handsome, international polychrome, was born in Paris, the son of a Russian civil engineer, and was eventually educated at the University of Chicago. Yarbrough, 31, who looks like a Bavarian bobsledder and sings in a Dennis Day tenor, was educated at the Great Books college, St. John's in Annapolis. The two met in the folksinging circles of small New York nightclubs. Gottlieb, who had helped pay his graduate school expenses as one of San Francisco...