Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousand watering holes of the small towns and crossroads hamlets of the South. The room is a cacophony of the ping-pong-dingdingding of the pinball machine, the pop-fizz of another round of Pabst, the refrain of Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer on the juke box, the insolent roar of a souped-up engine outside and, above it all, the sound of easy laughter. The good ole boys have gathered for their fraternal ritual-the aimless diversion that they have elevated into a lifestyle...
...respects the quintessential good ole boy, while Brother Jimmy couldn't even fit into the more polished subspecies of conscious good ole boys who abound in small-town country clubs. Billy, amiable, full of jokes, his REDNECK POWER T shirt straining unsuccessfully to cover the paunch, swigs a beer, carefree on a Sunday morning, as Jimmy Carter, introspective, hard driving, teaches Sunday school. Jimmy sometimes speaks wistfully of Billy's good-ole-boy ease...
...headlights, a funnel of dust announces the arrival of Bill Eldridge, a former Fort Pierce cop who helped write Stewart's first album, You 're Not the Woman You Used to Be. Eldridge has come to escort his friend, now somewhat lulled by the grease and beer, to the evening's performance. It is a Tuesday night, normally a slow evening, but the Flying Bridge Lounge is packed with a country crowd ready to greet the local boy with rebel yells. Men cradle sweating bottles of Pabst against their paunches and admire the sun-streaked blondes...
Class Act. As a performer, Gary Stewart's special attraction is the energetic diversity he displays when given a beer and a stage. Hunched over the piano, a spindly Ichabod partial to wide-brimmed swamper hats, Stewart invites everybody to get loose to something like his own Hank Western, with a weakness for "any good-lookin' woman, any kind of booze." The delivery, in a tight, nasal tenor voice, is as seasoned as the inside of an old spittoon, but heartfelt. Says Stewart: "It's all a poor man's music that talks about troubles...
...based Beijerinvest and the fastest-rising star in the Swedish corporate world. During the past decade, Wall, through a shrewdly calculated program of acquisitions, has built his company from a small trading firm into a conglomerate embracing 50 trading and manufacturing concerns that turn out goods as diverse as beer, rolling-mill equipment and industrial pumps. Under Wall, Beijerinvest's sales went from $25 million in 1964 to $1.04 billion last year. Last week the company reported that volume for the first half of this year hit $659 million, or 59% more than a year earlier, and profits came...