Word: moses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mose Allison. Jonathan Swift...
Right now the workshop is featuring Mose Allison while Paul's Mall has Billy Paul. Neither is anything to rave about, considering that this is the start of the season...
Bonnie Raitt, another fine locally-produced musician, is playing with Mose Allison at the Music Inn in Lenox Saturday night. Raitt went to Radcliffe for a couple of years, left and learned how to play the blues, and is now a terrific singer and wailer. Allison is a cerebral and somewhat spacey jazzman, well-thought-of by the real cognoscenti...
...more or less than they are. Silver Street's Tony Lonto, for instance, cannot help being a good cop any more than he can keep from making a futile effort to steer a young prostitute into a respectable job as a waitress. Case Load's Detective Mose Hamilton sees only punks in the world he polices, and the sour vision inevitably makes him a mean...
...ever. Because his head is just as divided and contradictory and imprisoned as ours. A lot of the record is a tribute to old popular music and jazz, including a Dylan waltz ("winter-lude/this dude thinks you're fine"), and "If Dogs Run Free," a beautiful Mose Allison-style piece which makes no sense at all, but features fine piano and coat-singing in the background...