Joy of Cookin’ Berkeley Barefootin’
Where Joy of Cooking come from individually has a lot of bearing on where they are as a group. The significance is not only in their well-integrated differences but in the basic similarities perhaps most people drawn to music have in common.
Joy of Cookin’
Berkeley Barefootin’
You can always blame it on the Bossa Nova.
by Robbie Cruger
Where Joy of Cooking come from individually has a lot of bearing on where they are as a group. The significance is not only in their well-integrated differences but in the basic similarities perhaps most people drawn to music have in common. In addition, Joy was drawn and fused by the magnetic force of Berkeley. Aptly representing this milieu, they certainly deserve their reputation as “A Berkeley Band.”
Terry’s Berkeley born and bred. She is still living there in a home behind a Porsche and a barrage of bushes in a closely-knit neighborhood where “Another Family For Peace” can be viewed on nearly every stainglassed frontroom window. Berkeley contains all the elements expected from a Californian collegetown — youth oriented, politically involved, musically absorbed, that hang-loose feeling. The comfortable atmosphere, conducive to a certain kind of mellow music making, has given birth to several accommodating clubs providing an outlet for both dancers and performers. Naturally, Terry’s musical interests were spurred by this very environment. A suitable setting for her story.