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Pacelli, who is also a Crimson editor, has always considered himself a Kentuckian by blood, although he hails from Illinois: his favorite pastimes are horse racing, gambling, bluegrass music and bourbon. When he learned his uncle was a friend of the Kentucky governor, he couldn’t resist making a small request. Soon enough, he was officially nominated and given a lifetime commission, which comes with a certificate bearing the governor’s seal, an entitlement to official deference in the state of Kentucky and a brass membership card...
...senior year of high school, Alison H. Brown ’84 faced a decision of ivy proportions: Harvard or Yale. She didn’t compare professors, student politics or dorms. She didn’t scan course catalogs. Instead, she pored over the club listings in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. Unimpressed by New Haven’s sparse offerings, Brown packed her bags and her Mayfair banjo for Cambridge’s thriving bluegrass scene...
...months pregnant) and adult responsibilities. The songs they wrote and other writers' songs they chose to sing were more serious than their earlier work. Emboldened by their stand against Sony, they decided to record the new tracks as an experiment. Musically, Maguire and Robison had grown up playing in bluegrass competitions, and they resolved to make a break with their old country sound and record in a more traditional bluegrass style, with lots of strings and no drums...
Home (out Aug. 27), the first record under the new deal, contains the bluegrass-y tracks the Chicks wrote on their sabbatical. The familiar story line--no record-company supervision equals more artistic freedom--turns out to be true and a mixed blessing. The first single, Long Time Gone, is a floorboard stomper about the passage of time; White Trash Wedding ("I shouldn't be wearing white, and you can't afford no ring") is a two-minute humor hurricane, and the two Patty Griffin-penned songs (Truth No. 2 and Top of the World) show the Chicks...
Meanwhile, KPBX in Spokane, Wash., broadcasts several of the children's concerts it sponsors every year. The concerts have offered bluegrass, Australian bush music, Irish ceilidh music, and a klezmer band. Information about the instruments, musicians and cultures that created the music is a part of each show, and during the holidays, stories that incorporate musical props are added. Gini Dixon and her family are avid KPBX listeners. "The radio is always on," she says. "I think it broadens my kids' horizons." Her son Mitchell, 5, touts the stories, while his sister Elizabeth, 9, is a fan of the music...