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...personal correspondences; indeed, I am in touch with more people, more regularly, than I have been at any other point in my life. But these people, like myself, all have e-mail. And so today I trade jokes with a doctor at Mass General over e-mail, I discuss bluegrass with an 80-year-old deejay in Georgia over e-mail and I continue many meaningful, personal, intense correspondences over e-mail...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Privacy, The Internet and Me | 4/17/1996 | See Source »

Other natives of the Bluegrass State natives were much less enthusiastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Students Watch NCAA Championship | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

Peretti, who has sold 6.4 million books, is a former bluegrass musician who lived in a trailer before moving to a log house near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Like most successful Christian novelists, he practices what he preaches as a devout Evangelical. "Part of being a Christian is that you share your faith," he says. "My writing is message centered." However, Peretti has brought his genre closer to mainstream pop fiction. For The Oath, Word, his new publisher, brought in "a New York editor," and the effort shows in the density and pacing of the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ALMIGHTY TO THE RESCUE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...music on Fleck's new CD, "Tales from the Acoustic Planet," is not simply to be defined as bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, funk or classical. It sounds something like jazz, but it's scored like classical and played on a banjo. Fleck has sculpted an acoustically-based musical style that is like nothing this listener has ever heard before...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Fleck Tells Extraordinary Banjo `Tales' | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

Fleck explores seemingly diverse musical traditions and integrates their various elements into a revolutionary style of music that moves comfortably from the elegant melodies of a string quartet to the rolling bluegrass lines of the banjo. Highlighting the album is a trio of distinguished musicians--Bruce Hornsby, Chick Corea, and Branford Marsalis--who add their respective talents to already enlightened compositions...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Fleck Tells Extraordinary Banjo `Tales' | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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