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...Jones just sounds so sad, it's painful. He's as sad-sounding as Hank Williams at his most abject. Of course, the difference is that Jones can sing, whereas Williams can only wail. Some words are clipped, some are stretched and played with, as only Jones can do. Some lines are almost whispered; others cried out - all beautifully set up by man who really understands what to do with lyrics. It's a pity that this is not a better recording, because the musicianship is also mighty tasty, with some pulsating pedal steel, a well-stroked fiddle...
...into one giant protective plastic shell. But what Roy (pronounced Wah) accomplished last week made headlines even in a country with actual news. In a 5-4 victory over Washington, Roy, 35, broke the 30-year-old record for most career wins by a goalkeeper (448), making him the Hank Aaron of hockey. Was it thanks to his superstitious routine of talking to the goalposts? "To be honest with you, everything went so fast in that game that I didn't really have a chance to have a talk with them," says Roy. "They'll forgive...
...made his Opry debut in 1956. And so when Jones was under pressure in the early '60s to churn out record after record for his new label, United Artists, he chose to do a tribute to Dickens. He has paid several complete-disc homages to other singers (Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Leon Payne among them), but this one, originally released in 1964, is the most successful. Maybe because he was awed by Wills and Williams, he tended to imitate on those discs; on the Dickens album he did it his way. And rather than playing Dickens' novelty tunes - though...
...Hank wanted to get to know the freshmen and their concerns and take those concerns to the larger University," says Michael J. Middleton '87, a former assistant dean of freshmen and senior advisor who served under both Nathans and Moses. "She saw her role as bringing University policies to the freshmen--a more top down management style...
...Hank specialized in being available, to students and with his staff, and that was different with Ibby. There were many more levels between Ibby and the advisors, Ibby and the proctors...