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...there are many people who will never acknowledge the greatness of Hank Aaron, because, to them, it will lessen the legend of the Babe. After all, they did not even really hear about soft-spoken slugger for Atlanta until he hit his 700th homer last summer and it became apparent that barring misfortune, he was a cinch to break the record...
...depicting Aaron in full swing, with Babe Ruth's face hovering in the background. The mayor and Governor, of course, are planning to be on hand to honor Aaron, and even the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got into the act by permitting special call letters -WH (for Hank) 4DOC-for ham-radio operators who will be informally broadcasting Atlanta games...
...football players who will see a lot of the ball this spring are Hank Lauricella and Doug Quimby...
...less unique and easier to listen to is the band sharing the bill tonight: John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. These musicians are locals and they look it, but at the same time they play more faithful country music than you can hear anywhere, faithful to the Hank Williams and Bob Wills and Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson songs they perform. The only hint of deviation is the inexplicable New England flavor they give to their music, and in a Cambridge environment that's fitting. Vocalist Wright wrote a lot of their numbers, and they're often about...
COMPLEXITY AND TECHNICAL ability are the only way you can get away with performing these old tunes, because half the power of a Hank Williams song is mythic: the vision of a train whistle America that's gone; Bob Wills's radio shows in the thirties with chorus girls swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend...