Word: harmonicas
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...others sought out abroad to demonstrate the old ways that have been transplanted to the New World. The researchers, scouting the country for local talent, came up with Fiddler Ed Johnson and Guitarist Joe Trottier, North Dakota Indians who play Scotch-Irish jigs. They found Charles Sayles playing his harmonica on a street corner in Greenwich Village and discovered Dolores Pequefio, a grandmother from San Diego, who sings 500-year-old Portuguese ballads...
...usual, interest in Dylan's new music is subordinate to interest in his new lyrics and in his present state of mind. But it's good to have the familiar musical background back--the harmonica that moves in to replace the voice when the words are over, the organ mounting upwards, giving the song a solid feeling and making the long, wordy lines seem to rise and fall in a grand rhythm. Dylan's voice on Blood on The Tracks is somewhere between the hard rasp of his classic period and the mellower country tones he affected after John Wesley...
Peter Durgerian, catalyst of capers and part-time harmonica minstrel is largely responsible for the team's indignance with the institution of basketball...
...works," says Black. "It was his suggestion that he become my dealer, not mine.") He is a music lover who each year organizes a Louis Armstrong memorial at the law school. The Texas-born scholar, who still has his drawl, also plays the trumpet and "a pretty good cowboy harmonica." A lifelong devotee of Chesterton's joy at being in the wrong place, Black began his scholarly career as a Greek major at the University of Texas. Why Greek? "My guess is that it was to be dramatic," he says now. "When people asked you and you told them...
Stone speaks Spanish in Miami's Cuban community, plays the harmonica for the country boys, and even broke an arm leaping over a tennis net for a photographer. Both candidates are conservative. Eckerd wants to cut spending; Stone wants "Uncle Sucker" to stop the foreign aid giveaways. A tossup...