Word: bluegrass
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...years the term "hillbilly music" has been used as a rubric covering a fantastic variety of sub-forms: old-time, familiar tunes, Dixie, mountain, sacred, gospel, country, cowboy, western, country-western, hill and range, western swing, Nashville, rockabilly, bluegrass. And every time a Northerner hears a hint of "twang" likely as not he'll think "hillbilly" and, blam, close another door. The problem with generalities is that they tend to become fixed, develop into prejudices, and communication comes to a roaring halt...
...Kentucky elected Louis B. Nunn, its first Republican Governor in many years. Nixon carried the Bluegrass state in 1968. On Tuesday, Kentucky elected Democrat Wendell Ford who ran on a dump-Nixon platform, directing his fire especially against the President's economic programs...
...used to play Civil War," he says, reminiscing about his childhood in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, "but we could never find anybody willing to be a Yankee. We'd shoot at imaginary enemies...
...believed to have appeared. But palms are flowering plants, or angiosperms (from the Greek angeion, meaning container, and sperma, seed), and play the principal role in what Charles Darwin called "the great abominable mystery of biology." Angiosperms, which embrace everything from tropical palms and northern oak trees to Kentucky bluegrass and backyard rose bushes, had come to dominate the plant kingdom by the end of the Age of Reptiles, 75 million years ago. Indeed, angiosperms provided the essential food supply (grains, fruits) for the advent and survival of mammals, including man. But, Tidwell argues, no truly authenticated fossils of angiosperms...
...Through The Morning is about fifty percent hard core country music, expertly performed. Doug Dillard comes from a family of bluegrass musicians and plays banjo, fiddle and guitar more than competently. David Jackson, bass, piano, and cello, scales down the harshness of the other instruments: and Jon Corneal (drums) gives the music the rhythmic patterns of rock. Sneaky Pete, listed as a "Special Picker," plays a very fine steel guitar, sometimes mimicking Clark's mouthharp or the piano, sometimes taking the role of lead guitar...