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The Cowsills and the Original Cast performed for an enthusiastic crowd last Friday night at Eastern Montana College.
The Original Caste walked onto the darkened stage with the light of a match, but the dim arrival did not darken the performance of the Canadian group.
The Caste, who termed themselves “Cowsill warmers,” did several folk-rock styled songs, and ended their performance with the female vocalist’s wailing version of “A Simple Song of Freedom.”
The six members of the Cowsill family imitated many other groups but seemed to fall short with their own music. The musical family (mother, daughter and four sons), which has recorded “million seller” records in the past three years, preferred to copy other group’s music and style instead of using original material.
The Cowsills began their performance with an exact reproduction of Creedence Clearwater’s “Cornfields” and continued with Johnny Cash, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sonny and Cher, and Mamas and Papas imitations. Only four original Cowsill numbers were performed.
Susan Cowsill, gyrating constantly in the spotlight sang “When I’m Sixty-Four” with all the gusto an eleven year old could muster. The family did such a good job of imitating Mick Jaeger and the Rolling Stones, one had to look twice to make sure they were still Cowsills.
The most popular parts of the program were the Johnny Cash imitations “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Walk the Line” (with a gravelly deepness strangely coming from a fourteen year old boy).
The group concluded the concert with the hand clapping number, “Reach Out.”
The Cowsills are lacking only one member – a song writer.
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