Word: delta
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...that means these 50 sides are some definitive blues: great blues, in the great tradition. Elmore James, who was born in Mississippi in 1918 and died in Chicago in 1963, led the archetypal bluesman's life: he rambled around the Delta with Robert Johnson in the '30s, played juke joints in the '40s, had a couple of R.-and-B.-chart hits in the early '50s, cut some fierce sides in the late '50s and early '60s (collected here in all their home-fried glory), then passed on from the accumulated effects of road life and drink before his legend...
James played a modernized, slightly souped-up version of Johnson's Delta slide-guitar style and sang with a five-alarm urgency that defied dampening. "The crying guitar and the screaming voice" are what Bobby Robinson called it, but that was only the foundation of James' style, which, as amply represented here, shows plenty of range. Only the intensity never varies. Talk to Me Baby has a rock overlay; Bobby's Rock spins along with blues underpinnings driving a twangy, near countrified, Duane Eddy-style beat; I Believe makes you hear the grit under the guitar strings, the true Delta...
...senior vice presidents of finance, marketing, flight operations and strategic planning, plus its vice presidents of advertising, government affairs, compensation, public affairs and maintenance operations. Perhaps Icahn's biggest managerial blunder was engaging in a series of unwinnable fare wars with the industry's big eagles: United, American and Delta. Subsequent price cutting helped land TWA in bankruptcy court last January...
Just when airline passengers were beginning to miss those great fare-war bargains, they learned that they are about to collect $400 million more in benefits from American, United, Delta and USAir. The four carriers agreed to pay the money out in the form of consumer discounts to settle their part of one of the largest class-action lawsuits in history. Along with several other airlines, some of which are now bankrupt or have discontinued operations, they had been charged with price fixing...
...answer the critics who say that American is improperly attempting to impose prices on the entire industry, that you and United and Delta have become too powerful...