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...turn sweet-potato vines, chop cotton and pull peanuts, and who looks homeward to a hamlet so archetypically Southern that it is almost parody. Beyond that, he is a bucolic devotee of hunting and bird 'dogs, stock-car racing and rock music -notably backwoods Georgia's own Allman Brothers. Says he of Georgia rockers in general: "They're good boys. I understand them...
There was time during the week for two private dinners with friends, prepared by the Reagans' longtime cook, Ann Allman. One day Reagan joined four personal and political intimates-Holmes Tuttle, Justin Dart, Jack Hume and William French Smith-for lunchtime reminiscences at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles. On another day he met with Ben Harbor, a black delegate from Louisiana, who asked for a face-to-face session while on a business trip to California; of course Reagan tried to talk him into support...
...consists of only nine songs, scarcely any of which run more than four minutes. There is no dead wood--it seems Williams was out to achieve the tightest set possible. His back-up band is superb, especially Carr's electric guitar. Williams recruited Charlie Daniels's fiddle and the Allman Brothers' Chuck Leavell to play keyboards, and the influence of these rockers blends with Williams's own country background to make the musical part of this album first-rate. Williams's vocals are always on target, ranging from a hurting, plaintive whine on "Living Proof" to a rocking shout...
...Here was this peanut farmer from southern Georgia who could appeal to people having seemingly contradictory political philosophies--from the Allman Brothers to businessmen in New York and Chicago," Stark said yesterday...
...plans an even larger mailing after the Florida primary. In addition, he organizes countless cocktail parties, receptions and dinners-at up to $250 a person-sometimes with Carter in attendance. On Valentine's Day, Carter presided over a five-hour telethon in Georgia that featured Rock Stars Gregg Allman and James Brown, Actress Peggy Cass and Ballplayer Henry Aaron, and pulled in pledges...