Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
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- Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
- Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
- What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
Martin on Main festival celebrates acoustic music
The Express Times – LehighValleyLive.com
at the main state and at smaller stages along Main Street. acousticmusicresource.
Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
New York Times
Like Evans the group’s two principals Donald Fagen and Walter Becker became obsessed with thematic development through long pieces. They didn’t lean on a conventional pop formula for musical structure. The songs on “Aja” have multiple strains and fascinating bridges; the horn and guitar solos often worked with entirely new sets of changes. It has light surfaces and deep rhythm-pockets with whispers of disco. It is one of the all-time great drumming records. It’s also one of the all-time-great how-good-is-your-stereo records. Its perfectionism could seem oppressive or fishy lab-based and possibly android.
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What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
The Associated Press
James Taylor played there in 1969 at age 21 and Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison were there before becoming household names. Then of course there’s Dylan. He was 22 at his first Newport performance in 1963 and easily solidified his role in the folk canon bellowing out topical solo ballads with his guitar and harmonica. He famously turned the genre upside down in 1965 when he performed with an electric guitar. “I was so mad myself I said `Damn it if I had an ax I’d cut the cable’” Seeger recalls. Baez says she felt betrayed though the sentiment passed. And Wein recalls coaxing Dylan to return to the stage — unplugged — to assuage the crowd.
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