Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most responsible for creating this monster is Jerry Jeff Walker, though God knows he probably didn't mean to. He's also changed a lot since then. He's no longer the grubby, lean desperado, looking like he'd like to hop the next train to Juarez. He's had a couple of successful albums, as many playing dates as he wants--even in places as distant and mysterious as Cambridge, Massachusetts--and everyone in the country music industry knows who he is. If he gets less attention than some of the latecomers, he still gets a lot, especially back...
...appearance has changed, his music is still pretty much what he's been doing all these years. It still has that earthy, drunken, rambunctious quality, that good-natured humor and fun-loving exuberance and that same rough, sunburned voice. He may not hop freight trains anymore--maybe he never did--but he probably still gets an urge now and then to go runnin' naked through that hill country rain...
...happened in the early '70s, for instance. You just couldn't get the groups, so you had to settle for poor tonality and a lot of onstage internecine politicking and back-stabbing. (See photo) Warren and the Burgers, and all that. But this weekend, my friend, you need only hop into your car (and I hope it's a microbus with drapes and carpeting in the back) and head on out to the 2001 Center in Gill, Mass. ("2001," we may suppose, is as good a reminder as any that the next century will have its sixties, too--only...
...Celts will host the Buffalo Braves at the Boston Garden Friday night at 9 p.m. If you want to see the Braves this year, you'd better hop onto the red line out to the Garden because sources tell me that the Celts will end the Braves' 75-76 campaign with a humiliating drubbing...
Every ref adds his personal flourish to his calls, especially some flamboyant types whom fans call pejoratively "hop, skip, and a jump-you're a chump refs." Nevertheless Diehl says that positioning and hand signalling have become basically uniform...