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22 - Wednesday, May 10, 1989 - North Shore News

Unadorned and essential

CYNICAL GRAHAM PARKER MEETS THE MARK

GRAHAM IS live and essen- tial in America; Jody’s latest liner notes counsel: “‘Don’t be fooled by materialism, cash, false illusions, and an illusive high. Say ‘“‘“NO” to drugs ... the first time and every time; The Saints are knighted; Dirt Band and friends inspire.

the brain around.

What you get is wholesale glan- dular agitation — powerhouse dance music for good, clean floor play. Sweat!

MICHAEL BECKER

Voice.

“Australia’s Waterboys, The Saints, turn out a swashbuckling opus, rocking and swaying with a brash, voice-of-the-people sinceri- ty’’ — Music NOW.

**** Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Will The Circle 8e Unbroken Vol. il, MCA 1989

This is a Cadillac delivery of old timey music, gospel, country and blue grass. The 20-song

. record reviewer blockbuster picks up the pickin’ Alon Graham Parker — Live! and playin’ from where the first yes" in America, BMG Music *** The Saints — Prodigal Son, Dirt Band circle of 18 years ago Recorded live in Philadelphia in Wy Records 1988 left off. ; he fall r BB, the ‘di Ha ff Pp “As ambitious and earnest as Pious American traditional music the sh of °88, the disc of the a U2, as sassy and strutting as the is presented by an all-star cast of erat ite connie, of the Stones’’ — Spin. thousands including Roy Acuff, snar ing Brie s creative output over “Compelling post-punk blend- Earl Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Johnny Spaets rhe ve h ed with soul and a little folk Cash, The Carter Family, Rosanne it ed sim ty by. Pp tongue . rock...’ — Musician. Cash, Emmylou Harris, Bruce tempered simply by a lone guitar, “It’s Bailey's bellowing blues Hornsby and a bushel! of Johns;

the caustic blasts, like Soul Cor- . ruption, and the bittersweet bits, soul that’s the kicker, knockout John Hiatt, John Denver and John

You Can't Be Too Strong, stand unadorned and essential.

The angry, acerbic, not-so-young man meets the mark. Watch out global evil doers, this is the guy who's going to burn your playhouse down.

*** tody Watley — Larger Than Life, MCA Records 1989 She’s young, gifted and black

* Photo submitted

GRAHAM PARKER'S latest is recorded live and in America, a land he sometimes beats up with words.

Saturday May 13, ’89

and deliverance” — The Village Prine.

and the gal’s got her funky libido

set on overdrive. While Madonna p At All .

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spotlight as the next big thing in boy toy land.

The disc is not subtle. It smacks you in the rump with boom-boom bass, bottom-heavy percussion, snaky guitars and Watley’s pouting voice. There are no deep words to be second-guessed, no tricky me- lodic twists to marvel at and wrap

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