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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.

Record Reviews

Record Reviews

Sir.—I am" glad to see that at last your record reviewer has come down to earth, and reviewed some records that can be appreciated by the mass of students, who don't pretend to dig Stravinsky. Strauss and Sauerkraut on their turntables.

One minor point, though—Baez has never condemned Dylan's use of amplified guitar—in fact, she has said in public record that her next album will be pure rock and roll. If the amplified on "Farewell Angelina" is played by Bruce Langhorne. I fail to see how it can be monotonous, as any possessor of "The Freewheelin" Bob Dylan" and "Odetta Sings Dylan" albums will tell you in awed "tones of his prowess on acoustic.

May I suggest that the plugs for World Record Club releases are canned, in future? Albums that should be reviewed—"Bob Dylan" and "Highway 61 Revisited "'Tom Rush's "Blues. Songs. Ballads," and Robert Johnson. "King of the Delta Blues Singers," Opinions on these albums might find a more patient audience at the university Folk Music club (when they find time to stop singing "Little Brown Jug," and running Dylan down).

Still, it is nice to see popular records being reviewed in a manner that doesn't reek of the noncommittal nonsense dished out by weighty tomes as "The Dominion."

R. G. Pasley