Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...types of songs. What I heard there taught me that the Blues is not just Lady Day crooning in a darkened, smoke-filled, hole-in-the-wall nightclub, although that is a part of it. No, the Blues varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they are considered to be the Blues if they exhibit, in Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s words, "that long and lonesome feeling," whatever that...
...Blind Boys from Alabama got on stage and showed everyone the solidity, the evenness of tone, the impeccable harmonies which can happen when a group has been together for more than 50 years. They sang soulful hymnals that could convert the heathens and which made my spirit rise up from what seemed like an eternity of drought to relish in the harmonies they produced. These men tell it like it is. They believe in what they sing about, and it comes across here like only the Word...
...combined to ignite the fire season in 11 Western states. On Colorado's Storm King Mountain, 14 fire fighters were killed when they were overtaken by a wind-whipped blaze. In the East, heavy rainfall from the stalled remnants of tropical storm Alberto caused severe flooding in Georgia and Alabama, claiming 24 lives...
Forrest Gump is nobody special, but he meets special people. In his 30-year odyssey through recent American history, this crippled Alabama lad with a 75 IQ bumps into Elvis and John Lennon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Nixon and Mao. Forrest is an innocent on loan to a cynical world, and in the movie bearing his name he would make little sense if he were played by anyone but Tom Hanks...
Forrest grew up with a 75 I.Q. and braces on his legs. In a small Southern town in Alabama, he may as well have been from Mars. But he overcame this handicap, breaking off the braces in one touching scene, and he never looked behind to see who was eating his dust. From such odd roots, he goes on to become a world-renowned runner and athlete. He serves in Vietnam and travels the world...