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...also identifies himself with some new influences. “As I’m getting older I’m getting closer to folk music and blues, and really simple forms of pop music...I keep listening to Hank Williams Records and some Mary J. Blige Records, R&B Records and they’re so simple and straightforward, and I keep wondering why can’t I write a song that’s just like, “Hi, I dig you, do you dig me? Let’s go get drunk...
...Current country stars such as Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Charlie Daniels, Steve Earle, even the already-long-on-legacy Hank Williams Jr., have all ridden the down-and-dirty-fication of country that Jennings, Nelson and Cash began, and all of them knew the value of a down-and-dirty persona to go with it. Waylon Jennings first and foremost...
...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...dealing with unions--Bloomberg LP is a nonunion shop--but will have to make punishing cuts in the city's work force. Already, though, Bloomberg has marked a change in New York, just by being Bloomberg. "Right now the city has a massive hole in its heart," says strategist Hank Sheinkopf, who worked for the Green campaign. "The New York swagger has lost a bit of its punch. We're looking for a business solution...
...among the latter. Sixty-eight tracks is plenty for an individual act but a mere freshman introduction to American roots music. With limited breadth, the curatorial choices are critical. There's not a false step on the Country and Blues discs, with room for both the obvious (B.B. King, Hank Williams) and the exuberantly obscure (Whistler's Jug Band?). But while the Cajun, Tejano and Native American selections are individually clever, their close proximity emphasizes similarity rather than the genres' diversity...