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When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened in 1964, it was widely described as an engineering marvel and a surefire tourist attraction. Its 17½ miles of open spans and underwater tunnels connect Virginia's Cape Charles with the Norfolk area, uncorking what had been a major traffic bottleneck between New York and Florida. The 25-minute scenic crossing costs $4 for car and driver, plus 85? for each passenger-just pennies more than the old 90-minute ferry fare of $3.85 for car and driver. Yet traffic on the world's longest bridge-tunnel has been only...
...unknown, cross-eyed, albino blues singer from East Texas. Judging by his first album for the company, it may have been a pretty good deal. Johnny's raspy. throaty, wailing voice is perfectly suited to traditional blues, while his lightning-fast finger work, on both electric and acoustic "bottleneck" guitar, can only be compared to the style of such legendary black musicians as Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker...
...optimism concerns the Faculty's increasing faith in the judgment of small student-Faculty groups. It was such a group that prepared the Rosovsky Report, and it will be such a group that plans the Afro-American Studies Program for the next three years. Perhaps the program's chief bottleneck to date has been the seeming scarcity of good teachers; now Harvard's black students will not longer be asked to accept this problem on faith, but have a chance to see for themselves and propose ways of overcoming...
...written, but that does not matter to him. "The blues really isn't that worked out or put together," he says. "It's emotional. It's what you feel at the time." What Johnny feels at the time is likely to be a kind of sliding, "bottleneck" guitar playing in the classic twelve-bar blues pattern or keening "harp" (harmonica) stylings imitative of Little Walter. "When I'm playing without a band, I don't change chords when I'm supposed to-I change chords when I feel like it. That...
This song is in the classical Chicago style. Spann sings about his woman who mistreated him and plays lead on the piano, being backed up by Muddy Waters on bottleneck guitar and George Smith's harp, and the rest of the band. The mood created is mournful and sad, but determined. Spann's voice expresses the stoic posture so characteristic of the Blues; and his piano style is slow and shuffling as if expressing the long lonesome journey he is beginning in the song...