Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think they're a little out of sync," Stone said. "They're not ready to go. I think they need some more time playing in a Harvard jersey...
...liked; it had to be understood. Singing the blues, even listening to the blues, was supposed to be a commitment to a type of emotion and a type of experience. And what on earth, I used to wonder, could a middle class white boy from the New Jersey suburbs possibly know about the blues...
...enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...want to understand the blues, all you have to do is listen. It doesn't matter if you're from New Jersey or New Orleans; understanding the blues comes simply from knowing how to share. We all know how to suffer, goes the logic of the blues. If there's anything we have to learn, it's how to talk and listen to each other...
...twilight looms over New Jersey, Shemmer is still hard at work at his desk. It's late, and he won't go home until it's totally dark, but the atmosphere in the office is more casual than during the day. And Shemmer has another reason to be happy. "You see Zamba?" he yells over the walls of his cubicle...