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Southern black blues fathered country and western music, which stayed in the hills unchanged for generations while the strains that travelled to the city became jazz. After the glorious period of Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb--country music started to become big business. Nashville discovered the way to make its music a mass commodity in the mid-sixties--by adding background violins and Hollywood choruses to the dobros and the pedal steels...
This is needless, because the music--tasteful, impeccable country music--is tribute enough, not only to Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, but to Merle Haggard. On one live album, Haggard introduces one of his own songs, saying abashedly, "Maybe someday they'll say, 'this is an old Merle Haggard number'". And when he launches into the sad, sad white blues, it's a voice from another time...
Opening your cross-country season against Northeastern. UMass, and Penn is like facing Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell, and Johnny Bench at the top of the lineup...
...Hank Greenspan is a research assistant at the Graduate School of Education and a freelance writer. the facts from the Highest-up. I refer, of course, to what has become known as the "Fig Leaf" episode. Would you please tell us what you know of that...
...whether he could have hit .400 (his career average was .342) if he had concentrated on meeting the ball for mere base hits rather than swinging for the fences, Ruth replied: "Four hundred? Hell, kid, I could have hit .500." He probably could have. But that would have left Hank Aaron no one to chase...