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...Stadium, where the Red Sox had lost, naturally, to the Yankees. ?I was deep in my thoughts of despair,? Berry remembered, ?when all of a sudden, from the back of the car, I heard four or five voices raised in song.? It was the refrain of a folk song indigenous to New England: ?Better than his brother Joe, Dominic Di-Mag-gioooooo!? Curious and emboldened, Berry made his way through the car and found Powers leading the chorus. ?He seemed to resemble the immortal ?Nuf Sed McGreevey, a leader of the Royal Rooters of the early 1900s. I introduced myself...
...wild-card era. ?Yeah,? said the other fellow. ?Zim wasn?t so bad.? The Sox were going good at that time in the spring of ?04, and in such periods, when the boys are winning at a spirited clip, the BLOHARDS are sweet and charitable folk...
...ZANES AND FRIENDS: HOUSE PARTY The Muppet-haired guitarist of '80s indie-rock band the Del Fuegos now makes eclectic folk rock for kids. House Party combines covers of the familiar (Jamaica Farewell) and the obscure (the rollicking Tennessee Wig Walk) with crafty originals, like the R&B-inflected House Party Time. And the cast of surprise guests, such as Deborah Harry and Bob Weir, will give you an excuse to inflict Blondie and Grateful Dead albums on your children later...
...SHADY TREE If you're Sting's or Madonna's child, you want Mom or Dad to play at your birthday party, right? Wrong. You want toddler-set diva Berkner. A kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow, Berkner inhabits a kid's curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated-- very repeated--listenings...
...stylized businessman who appears on the fares, holding one of his now-eponymous tickets aloft, is a reincarnation of Charlie, the hapless commuter popularized by the Kingston Trio, a folk group, in a 1959 recording...