Word: fathead
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...sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David "Fathead" Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what?s been gained; it?s what...
...writers become writers in the first place is to enable them to look more decent and honorable in print than they ever could in person. It's a bad lot on the whole--petty, nasty, bilious, suffused with envy and riddled with fear. Myself excluded, of course. And that fathead, Shakespeare...