Word: bottlenecks
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...white female expertly playing the bottleneck guitar, Raitt was a rare bird who was quickly noticed. By 1971, when her classmates were entering their senior year, she had signed a contract with Warner Brothers...
...Fogerty's first marriage broke up in 1987. He heard music in his head but couldn't reproduce it to his own satisfaction. As he worked on Blue Moon Swamp's eerie A Hundred and Ten in the Shade, he thought the tune needed the insinuating underpinning of a bottleneck guitar. Instead of hiring a player, Fogerty commenced to teach himself the technique and, after a year, "I got fairly proficient. [Then] it became obvious that it was the wrong sound. It didn't match what was in my head. I finally realized it was the Dobro sound...
...veteran were the subjects being discussed at round tables and in plenary sessions at the meeting: "The Need for Expanding Physical Facilities," "The Challenge to Curriculum and Faculty: Revision in Teaching Methods and Shortage of Personnel," "Inflation on the Campus," "The Veteran Looks at Education" and "Breaking the Education Bottleneck." Central to these debates was Washington's new GI Bill, which did much to open up the nation's system of higher education to the middle class. In this legislation, service to country was honored partially through access to education. In the process, a mutual respect developed...
...chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat hoards power in the same way he did as leader of the P.L.O., and the bottleneck of decision making at the top has helped create pervasive disorganization within his government. "There is an unbelievable amount of inefficiency," says a department head. "The norm is against working well." Arafat has also retained his habit of appointing at least two people for every task, so that no one rises too high and he retains power as the arbiter of conflicts. The results are incoherent policy and internal bickering. The chairman is notorious for playing his Planning...
...best synthesist of them all, however, is Landreth, 43, a long-haired, laid-back bottleneck ace whose virtuosity evokes comparisons with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. A long-time sideman for such musicians as John Hiatt and John Mayall, the Mississippi-born, Lafayette-bred Landreth also played with Chenier in his prime. His first major-label solo album, 1992's Outward Bound, displayed a brilliant command of styles, including Chet Atkins-style flat picking, Delta blues and slide guitar. His most recent album, South of I-10 (referring to the interstate that bisects Louisiana), is even better. Creole Angel...