Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downtown on famous Printer's Alley one expects a Bourbon Street of country music--stand in the middle of the avenue and hear a dozen songs wafting and mingling from a dozen different clubs, not sailors and revelers with one earring stumbling out of doors, maybe, but at least truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record...
...nightclub appearance-on the same bill with Frank Sinatra at Lake Tahoe. "I've only seen him perform on television, but I've heard others say he wrote the book," says Denver. "I'm looking forward to learning a great deal that week." The branchwater-and-bourbon combination will feature Denver singing to the supper crowd and Ol' Blue Eyes performing at midnight. "There's that lake, all those mountains, and Mister Sinatra," Denver rhapsodizes...
Died. Norman Treigle, 47, New York City Opera's deeply resonant bass since 1953; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in New Orleans. A devout Baptist, Treigle once sang gospel songs with a touring evangelist known as "the Chaplain of Bourbon Street"; his first lead role at City Opera, a guilt-haunted, Bible-pounding minister in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, was based on those early experiences. Treigle's gaunt face and spidery figure virtually typecast him for such roles as Mephistopheles in Boito's and Gounod's versions of the Faust legend, and as the four villains...
...basement of Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...
...moon will probably not set for good on moonshining as long as there are enough good ole boys around who prefer white lightning to bonded bourbon. In fact, while the smalltimers are being forced out of business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White...