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Thread #2200   Message #1874490
Posted By: GUEST,Snap Out Of It Pete
02-Nov-06 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Free Mexican Airforce (Peter Rowan)
Subject: RE: Free Mexican Airforce
Peter Rowan is a great singer, and a great guitar player, with a resume that extends back to Bill Monroe... but in my opinion, the pot-oriented stuff is his weakest material, and the pandering to the Deadhead contingent at his concerts with "Free Mexican Airforce" and junk like "Midnight Moonlight" is where a great artist trivializes his own performance.

I have nothing against dope; used to love it, in fact. But dope-material and fusion crap like "reggae-grass" make Rowan somewhat of a clown.

Listen to him sing "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" on the album he recorded with Don Edwards (High Lonesome Cowboy) to hear what he can do.