Word: gutbucket
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...home of the Kentucky Derby, America's greatest horse race, the city of Louisville has developed a tradition of hospitality ranging from white-glove genteel for the mint-julep set to gutbucket honky-tonk for the infield mob. Yet the city's most intriguing hotel has built its off-track winning formula around a thoroughbred collection of contemporary art. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
Merle Haggard has always had his guitar hardwired to the gutbucket pulse of Middle America. Back in the Vietnam era, he seemed the essence of a historic political migration: white males fleeing the feminized, antiwar, politically correct Democratic Party. He was your basic Reagan Democrat, fully loaded with a resonant, iron-edged voice and the ability to write razor lyrics that stuck in the mind and the craw. His brilliant anthem-Okie from Muskogee-became a rallying cry for those who were disgusted by the "hippies out in San Francisco" smoking marijuana and burning draft cards. His next patriotic volley...
...what are billed as the songs of Johnny Mercer. Actually they're mostly other composers' tunes with lyrics by Mercer--and there's the rub. Dr. John is a master of the funky mumble, his vowels brayed and bent, his consonants missing in action. Still, these R&B-flavored, gutbucket tracks catch the Mercer spirit if not always the letters. Concedes Dr. John in an original: "For better or worser,/ I ain't no Johnny Mercer...
...every Democratic candidate is a populist this year-after all, Hillary Clinton is running for re-election-but Webb, Ohio's Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown and a raft of congressional candidates are running as no-holds-barred gutbucket populists, and most of the other Democratic candidates have touches of populism in their pitches. In Tennessee, for example, moderate Democrat Harold Ford Jr. has embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald...
BRANFORD MARSALIS: TRIO JEEPY (Columbia). Some nice moments (The Nearness of You, Gutbucket Steepy), but let's face it: slick imitations of Bird, Coltrane and Ben Webster do not a jazz genius make. Forget the liner-note hype, Jeepy, and come back when you've paid some dues...