Word: moses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last Tuesday's concert in Boston the Who introduced a Mose Allison song, 'Young Man Blues' saying that it was one of the things they used to do when they were first formed in 1964 and it had led them to music they were now making. Daltrey mimicked his master's voice singing each line with the rest of the group quiet--for Moon, Townshend and Entwistle to erupt, between lines, into inspired instrumental dashes. Towards the end of the song Townshend took over and played lovely near-classic blues spiced as it was with the ever-present Who twist...
Then there is the question of whether a welfare recipient may be jailed if he refuses to take an available job. The New York Court of Appeals recently said no in the case of Mose Pickett, 32, a jobless father of three who spurned state offers of a $1.50-an-hour laborer's job because, he said, he was looking for a better job. He lost his welfare, and although he subsequently took a similar job, he got a 30-day jail sentence from the City Court of Niagara Falls. The court voided Pickett's conviction, implying that...
...doubt the better of the two, Blues, Songs and Ballads has personality. It captures some of Rush's best performances: a riotous rendition of the old jazz tune "Sister Kate" acquired from Eric von Schmidt and a version of "Baby Please Don't Go" that I prefer to Mose Allison's. Excepting "Rag Mama" and "Drop Down Mama," which have inordinately good lyrics much of the remainder is pedestrian...