Word: guitarist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year terms), clobbered by Ole Earl in the 1956 gubernatorial primary, and running an uphill race against rural Louisiana's traditional prejudice against 1) a big-city boy and 2) a Roman Catholic. Some 63,000 votes behind Morrison came ex-Governor (1944-48) Jimmie Davis, sometime songwriting guitarist (You Are My Sunshine), who riled Ole Earl by stealing away the support of the Old Guard New Orleans regulars, won 207,000 votes with a serious, nonsinging campaign. With the 340,000 total votes of the nine also-rans providing the prize, "Chep" Morrison and Jimmie Davis will doubtless...
...brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman. One day in Paris he met the legendary Belgian-born gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, then and there decided to become a jazz musician...
...jazz kick kept Byrd occupied only for a few years after his discharge from the Army. He studied at Manhattan's jazz-prone Hartnett National Music Studios, but was so enthralled by Spain's great classical guitarist, Andres Segovia, that he realized jazz was not his real love after all. The classics were the thing; for it, Byrd studied with Sophocles Papas, a friend of Segovia's, then in 1954 with Segovia himself in Siena, Italy...
...overly enthusiastic audience crowded Kresge Auditorium last Wednesday evening to hear Richard Dyer-Bennet, folk-singer and guitarist, open the Harvard-M.I.T. Summer Series...
bandstand of the narrow, crepe paper-festooned dance hall behind the bar ("Ladies Will Not Be Let in at the Door Wearing Shorts or Slacks") sit a pianist, trumpeter, guitarist, bass fiddler. As the evening wears on and the smoke from the wall tables eddies through the room, the band is likely to swing with a pile-driver beat into some old favorites-Big Mamou or Shake It and Break It. The style, as raw and jolting as a shot of bootleg rye, offers the last authentic taste of the music that once helped make New Orleans the world...