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Hank Jr., born Randall Hank, conjures up his father's ghost in a more straightforward fashion. He recorded some of his new album in the real Almeria Club, a bar in Troy, Ala., where his old man is said to have once performed, and one of his songs, If the Good Lord's Willin' (and the Creeks Don't Rise), is adapted from his dad's old lyric sheets. The way Hank Jr. tries to generate excitement is also foursquare--he relies more on blazing guitar riffs than ingenious melodies. There's more bombast on 30 sec. of Almeria Club...
...Hank Williamses--Hank's son Hank Williams Jr., 52, and his boy Hank Williams III, 29--just released a pair of albums that are miles-apart takes on country and the family legacy. Hank Jr.'s Almeria Club Recordings is his 68th solo album. Hank III's Lovesick, Broke and Driftin' is only his second, but this...
Those two punctured grapes, discovered on March 12 in a shipment unloaded from the cargo ship Almeria Star in Philadelphia, forced millions of Americans to ask themselves, however fleetingly, whether to take a risk by eating. That the fruit at the salad bar, the peach in Johnny's lunch box, the raspberries in the refrigerator, could be poisonous turned the world upside down. Could the stuff of vitamin C and Cezanne still lifes be hazardous? Was an apple a day more likely to bring the doctor than keep him away? What was the world coming...
...embassy in Santiago was followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday, 150 inspectors, more than 15% of the FDA's field force, were eyeballing grapes at the Tioga Marine Terminal...
...Almeria, Spain...