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Although “Woodshop Walter” has only been at Harvard for seven months, he has been a Cambridge local for quite a while. “I was a street musician in 1979 in Harvard Square,” said Stanul, an accomplished, self-taught classical guitarist and luthier (one who makes stringed instruments...
...after he traveled to Nashville to write a piece for The New Yorker on the Grand Ole Opry, that he hit on the notion for the live evening show that shortly became A Prairie Home Companion. Years later the great country guitarist Chet Atkins heard from his agent, who said that "somebody in St. Paul wants you to work on a radio show for $300." Atkins was not thrilled, but then his daughter mentioned Keillor's show, and so did another musician. "I decided to tune in," he says. "That man's voice just mesmerizes people. I called my agent...
ARRESTED. David Crosby, 44, strung-out singer-guitarist with the pop group Crosby, Stills and Nash; on drug, weapon and hit-and-run charges, after he allegedly crashed his car into a fence, fled the scene and was later found to have a .45-cal. pistol and cocaine paraphernalia in the vehicle; in Mill Valley, Calif. It was his third arrest on drug-related charges in the past year...
...Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show in a fancy loft in Manhattan's SoHo (borrowed from touring heavy-metal guitarist Richard Bernstein), Lieberman was back in his own cramped Manhattan kitchen preparing gourmet sandwiches for executives from Song Airlines. The budget carrier was looking for a chef to come up with appetizing, economical and easy-to-make menu options to serve on its flights. Lieberman...
...Reformed as New Order in the weeks after Curtis' death, with guitarist Sumner at the mic, the band refused fans' calls to rerecord or play Joy Division tunes. "It would have been too painful; it reminded you of Ian too much," explains Sumner. He adds that the group needed to prove it could make it on its own living merits: "I didn't fancy being an Ian Curtis impersonator, really." That was never a danger. The 1983 song Blue Monday proved a smash hit with clubgoers - becoming the biggest-selling 12-in. single ever - and New Order further anchored themselves...