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...Doc Watson/"Foundation: The Doc Watson Instrumental Guitar Collection...
...Although the guitar has long been the emblem of folk music, few of its early practitioners actually exploited the instrument beyond strumming chords in accompaniment. But among the few who did, Doc Watson stands as a monument of inventiveness and virtuosity. Now 77, Watson was the first to adapt the fiddle tunes at the core of the bluegrass idiom to the guitar, taking the instrument out of the background and putting it front and center, often solo, with a sparkling, rigorously precise flatpicking technique that is as fiendishly difficult as it is exciting - all the more remarkable for the fact...
Changing attitudes means getting more people to give up rescue medicine in favor of comfort care when the hope of a cure is minuscule. "For many people, it's easier to say, 'Whatever you say, Doc,' rather than spend two weeks thinking through your own death," says Lynn. "That's uncomfortable. But life is mostly about grandchildren and gardening, sunrises and eating chocolate. It's not about pills." Fine, but how do you eat a Hershey bar when you know it could be your last...
...Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan 2. Kiss - Prince (tied with "Paisley Park") 3. Happy - Jagger/Richard 4. Jolene - Dolly Parton 5. Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams 6. I Fall to Pieces - Harlan Howard/Hank Cochran 7. Angel From Montgomery - John Prine 8. Tennessee Stud - Doc Watson version 9. Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs 10. Avalon - Roxy Music...
...street shoes have shown tendencies toward the outlandish as well, though the deformations are subtler, taking the form of ghastly square-blockishness in the toe, for example (perhaps a way of allowing a 25-year-old management trainee at Chase to think he is still wearing his Doc Martens skinhead stompers). The mistakes in men's designs - fortunately or unfortunately - do not have the (screwball) style of the women's errors. The men's shoes merely have about them an air of stolid, depressing stupidity, as if they had been designed 40 years ago in Communist Bulgaria. I trudge...