I was reading the lede on the Herald-Sun story about the upcoming events at the Carolina Theatre and the reporter described the list thusly:
Motown’s “The Temptations Review,” dance group “Tango Buenos Aires” and comedian Josh Blue are part of the lineup for The Carolina Theatre’s 2007-2008 season, announced Tuesday.
Not much there to interest me, but I scrolled down and went through the list. And there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words: Arlo Guthrie: Solo Reunion Tour – Together At Last. Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Tickets $33. Members: $28. Students $5 off.
Now, I ask you, how can a reporter or editor in this day and age not mention Arlo Guthrie in the lede paragraph of a story about upcoming events at the Carolina Theatre? How soon they forget.
Now, “Alice’s Restaurant” is a great album, which I goofed on two paragraphs above, and “City of New Orleans” are what Guthrie is popularly known for. But on the flip side of “Alice” were some very fine songs that have been largely forgotten: “Now and Then,” “Chilling of the Evening” and “Highway in the Wind,” especially. If I go to the concert in February, it’ll be in the hope that he sings those other songs as well.
