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...style, of two pairs of brothers (Davies and Townsend). In fact, they were pretty good - the guitarist actually had a Martin, a rare thing in England. And one of the songs they played was this classic track, written by'50s country performer Dusty Owens and made famous by Roy Acuff. It has since become a bluegrass standard, used by, among others, David Grisman and the Osborne Brothers...
...charming revisit to the more innocent days of country music, and must surely have given Jones great pleasure. After all, he grew up listening to the clear band of WSM in Nashville (the home of the Grand Ole Opry) and such stars as Tennessee's Roy Acuff and Kentucky's Bill Monroe, the latter, of course, the inventor of bluegrass...
...that efficiency includes, it turns out, funding new businesses and laying waste to those that disappoint. On Wall Street, day traders and fund managers continue to smart over this year's natural--even desirable--bursting of the speculative tech-stock bubble. "The Internet really turbocharged everything," says Marshall Acuff, chief equities analyst for Salomon Smith Barney. "It was the infinite expectations for the Internet that pushed excitement to the ultimate level...
With the two favorites Tisha Waller and Amy Acuff failing to clear the 1.93-meter bar, Aldrich was guaranteed a spot in Sydney. Acuff won a jump-off to knock the heralded Waller out of Olympic contention. The women's high jump will be one of the last events contested at Sydney. The next Gyorffy vs. Aldrich matchup will not take place until the high jump preliminaries on September 28th, the last Thursday of the Olympics. The top twelve finishers in the preliminaries will compete again two days later to determine the medal winners...
Aldrich tied Acuff last February, taking away Acuff's hold on the high jump record. The American record, however, was set by Tisha Walker last February as well with a height...