Post by RobGNYC on Jun 2, 2021 10:34:53 GMT -5
"White 'rock' wasn’t exclusively male in the post-girl group ‘60s. But its women—the most notable among them Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips, and coming up on the outside the Stone Poneys’ Linda Ronstadt—almost never played instruments. Yes there was San Francisco’s all-female Ace of Cups, wan in my reluctant judgment then and equally so in their recent revival, as well as the much livelier but still limited L.A. guitar band Fanny. But Joy of Cooking’s matched lead songwriters and canny sweet-gritty vocal interplay plus the way Toni Brown’s piano led Terry Garthwaite’s guitar over a three-piece male rhythm section rendered this a conceptually shrewd band with discernible feminist content in a time when the women’s movement was less than three years old."
"Terry’s unique power as a performer came clear to me the third time I saw [Joy of Cooking] perform, between a terrible macho-rock band called Robert Savage and sexpot Linda Ronstadt in the enormous Long Beach Municipal Arena."
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lookback-the-joy-of-cooking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTQ3MTI2LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjYzODU3NSwiXyI6IkxkWXFMIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIyNjQ3NTUxLCJleHAiOjE2MjI2NTExNTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNzE2NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.VkN_MYBtFPsj4xj0r77js6ja3-TeT3TjSPWy3k2UxmU
"Terry’s unique power as a performer came clear to me the third time I saw [Joy of Cooking] perform, between a terrible macho-rock band called Robert Savage and sexpot Linda Ronstadt in the enormous Long Beach Municipal Arena."
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lookback-the-joy-of-cooking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTQ3MTI2LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjYzODU3NSwiXyI6IkxkWXFMIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIyNjQ3NTUxLCJleHAiOjE2MjI2NTExNTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNzE2NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.VkN_MYBtFPsj4xj0r77js6ja3-TeT3TjSPWy3k2UxmU
