February 13, 1970
"Chrst You Know It Ain't Easy"
There comes a time to your ears
when all the heavy music you
hear begins to sound •alike, until
You can hardly tell whether
that's -a new song by Led Zepplin.
Jeff Beck, Frigid Pink, or Ten
Y?i r TS After. I'm speaking here as
a former heavy music freak and
a somewhat dissillusioned one at
that. Is the Led Zepplin II al
bum any better than the first
Not really. I like it better, but
only because it is consistent
whereas the first wasn't sure
whether it wanted to be hard rock
or blues rock (with Black Moun
tairPs side thrown in for what's
left of the raga people). At any
rate heavy music is still up there,
but I don't think its going to last.
The main force that is driving
a lot of people from heavy
excess is the "let's go back"to-.the
old stuff and sit around the back
porch picking. Witness the sud
den popularity of Credence Clear
watfo,,r Revival. The Band, and
the Youngbloods. John Mayall has
stated that the heavy lead guitar
approach to blues rock doesn't
mean much- anymore, and the
Rolling Stones do a bit of. semi
acoustic and simple stuff on Let
It Bleed. This is all very nice, ex
cept everyone I've named has
made, it. Delany and Bonnie
Branlett haven't ;quite made it
theragh, which is a shame.
Their group, Delany, Bonnie &
Friends, has .been an underground
supergroup for the last year,
they're- superstars in Europe,
where George Harrison joined
them for a tour last fall. When
the group played England Eric
Clapton left Blind Faith and is
currently- touring the U. S. with ,
that - pianist Leon R us seli
has written and played on ...roe
Cockers hit, Delta Lgdy, Bonnie
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ton), is the chick .4inger who up
stages IGinnee Shelter from
Mick Jagger on Let It Bleed. and
Delany does a lot of L. A. stu•do
work.
DB&F have had an album out
on Elektra since last July, AC
CEPT NO SUBSTITUTES, Elek
tra EKS 74039, which has been
pretty much ignored. I bought the
albums in September and 'hated
it, it had no solos to speak of.
there was, nothing spectacularly
innovating on it, and it was too
short (34 minutes 39 seconds to
be exact). .
I was listening to it around
Christmas and one song, Some
day, stuck in my ,head. It started
out with a great guitar lick that
lid into a very soft. horn chorus,
aim cst like a salvation army band
with balls. The song is shared
vocally by Delany and Bonnie.
then Bonnie starts to sing pro
gressively louder (Although she
never sings as loud on this al
bum as she does on Let It Bleed)
until the spirit of Otis Redding
dueting with Aretha Franklin
comes to mind, then the tempo
changes and the entire band riffs
until the song fades into the next
number, Ghetto.
I •started running around hum
ing the horn riffs, then the guitar
licks, then I listened to the al
bum again, and since he 21st of
January I've been listening to
the album about twice a day.-
The amazing thing about the
group is that it seems like a fam
ily thing, with Delany as the
father, Bonnie as the mother,
Leon- Russel as the uncle, and
everyone else sitting in there all
together. -There is always some
thing to hear. One minute Bon
nie will solo•, then she and Delany
duet, meanwhile you can listen
to Leon Thissel's piano and Jim
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Keltner's drums on the other
channel. It fits together like a
Jigsaw puzzle, yet there's no reg
imentation.
Delany is from Mississippi, and
he played lead guitar with the
house band of the old ABC TV
show, Shindig, the Shin Dogs
(They all wore black greaser
clothes and sang in accents).
The Shin Dogs sound like a pretty
lame group, but they weren't, I
dug them . . . they had a certain
"king-harv i tst will surely come"
earthiness to them that I thought
could only be achieved with a
four piece group. As it is Delany
and Leon Russell are getting the
same feel with a ten piece band.
The group's music is southern to
the core, not blues or hillbilly, but
southern, in the manner of Tony
Joe White and Bobbie Gentry.
There's a lot of gospel feeling in
it, mainly because they work
themselves up to a near religious
fervor, and Bonnie can reach!
notes with her voice that would;
make any chick singer but Tracy!
Nelson jealous. As a result, it's
like a stoned revival meeting.
While all this frenetic wailing is
going on, the horns drift around
in a languid manner (It's not like
Gil Evans arrangements for Miles
Davis, but that's what the effect
reminds me of, sort of putting you
into an exotic lethargy). I can't
really say I've got any favorite
song here, the album is one of
those rare discs without any
really BAD tracks on it, but since
Delany and Bonnie are just
homefolk they like to be polite.
The album is just too short, De
lany and Bonnie could go on for
hours without boring anyone, but
I suppose Elektra figures you en
joy things in small doses maybe
that's why DB&F are recording
for Atlantic now. I always like big
does anyway.
"Nobody ever went broke un
derestimating the American pub
lic" Department.
Atlantic records announced in
the December 13th. 1969 issue of
Billboard that Iron Butterfly's
In-A-Gada-Da-Vida has become
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