Word: yarrow
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Eliot describes the ever deepening frustration Ochs endured as his songs and his career failed to reach the minds of his contemporaries. It all began, though, in 1962 in the Greenwich village folk clubs, which then featured singers like Peter Yarrow, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan. It was a time when "anyone with a pocketful of tunes, a guitar, and the guts to get up on stage was singing folk music." Ochs started out with songs like "One More Parade and "The Power and the Glory...
Paul Stookey "sings to his plants" on his Maine farm. Peter Yarrow is co-producing a television special about the adventures of Puff the Magic Dragon. Mary Travers spins out solo albums. Ever since they disbanded seven years ago, the folk-singing trio have kept music on their minds, and now comes a coda: a P-P-M reunion. Last week the three announced that they will cut a record and in August they will set out on a monthlong, 17-city tour. "We're living in a different time now, so some of the styles may make some...
DENVER, STEINBERG, RUSH, YARROW, AND STOOKEY--Sat. Feb. 2 at Boston Music Hall...
...songs Yarrow performed Sunday are on That's Enough For Me. The album is uneven, one or two of the songs very ordinary, but Yarrow's voice and the arrangements almost always avert real disappointment. The Maytals, a Jamaican reggae group, are used to good effect, and if Yarrow's version of "The Harder They Come" falls short of Jimmy Cliff, how could it do otherwise...
...Yarrow's album and especially his concert hold great promise for the future. If Yarrow continues to evoke such strong audience reactions--without vitiating his political commitments--he may help prove that there's a chord of popular idealism still to be struck and discover a chorus of human concern still to be sung...