Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dust My Blues" (written by Robert Johnson) and it opens with an explosive burst from James's slide guitar and it rocks like only the greatest rock songs. The rhythm section pounds through the basic 12 bar chord changes and James shouts out his lyric about his "no good" woman...
...good woman but she a night owl on the street...
Following each angry phrase James plays a hard angry riff on his guitar. This song expresses the universal frustration about 'no good" women felt by every man. Few Blues songs can match the intensity of "Dust My Blues...
Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann, and Elmore James knew these ideas instinctively. When Elmore James shouts the lyrics about his no good woman over the driving beat created by his rhythm section and then cuts loose with a barrage of savage notes he renders literary descriptions meaningless. Every man regardless of taste in music must be moved by the emotion and power of Elmore James' performance...
...choice met with severe criticism from opponents of the Interstate Highway system. Volpe defended his choice, saying, "Some have said that I should have appointed a city planner or a doctor. I happen to think that a good highway man would make a good Highway Administrator." Volpe was the nation's first Highway Administrator...