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...dull records; they only really shine in person. The group leans mostly toward a countryish sort of tune, always cleverly conceived and masterfully carried out. They've been working pretty often with Earl Scruggs in the past couple of years and they've learned their lessons from the old banjo picking wizard. The reason these dirty boys are so good in concert is that they have an amazingly friendly stage personality. They seem like such good fellows that you can't help but like them. Michael Stanley will also be playing at the Performance I. Shows...
...Watson, the great blind banjo and guitar picker, is appearing at the Performance Center I this week with Geoff Muldaur. Watson played in Cambridge this spring and was a resounding success; country music seems to be getting popular in Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with...
...elements of the music are standing right there on the stage: Earl in the middle, dark, carefully combed hair looking a bit sheepish for covering his ears, face full of a quiet pride and the air of hanging back a bit on the vocals in favor of his accomplished banjo--and his sons. One of them, who introduced the songs, has a pleasant Dylanesque drawl to his voice, and both of them can, as they say, play the flat flip out of a guitar. The audience got off most on the inevitable Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and on Friday they finally...
Earl Scruggs Revue. Earl Scruggs plays a mean banjo, which reminds me: Harvard is playing mean with its printers. Since 1968, printers' wages at Harvard have risen only 28 per cent compared to a 35 per cent rise in the consumer price index. Support the printers' demand for a 9 per cent pay hike instead of the piddling 5.9 per cent suggested by Harvard. John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys play second bill. Through Saturday June 1 at The Performance Center...
Patrick Sky. Sky's most recent album Songs that Made America Famous ("I tried to put something on it that would offend everyone") is essentially a long dead-baby joke. The remarkable thing is that he plays excellent guitar and banjo, and when he's not too drunk to be coherent, sings well enough too. Through Sunday, April 21 at the Stone Phoenix Coffee House...