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...adds fleet-fingered bass and the vocal harmonies he learned at the Rising Sun Baptist Church in nearby Hernando. The Allstars spend most of their time on the road (their van, Dirty Red, has logged 53,000 miles in the past 18 months alone), fusing the punkish energy of juke-joint blues with rock-guitar solos and hip-hop beats--and getting neo-hippie kids twirling to old Mississippi Fred McDowell tunes and hard-core kids moshing and crowd surfing to primal Robert Johnson licks. Their debut CD, a raucous collection of hill-country standards called Shake Hands with Shorty...
...each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating a riff over and over with subtle variations and rising power while the folks outside dance in the dirt. This is trance music--the kind of sonic moonshine that has been served up for decades in the juke joints of north Mississippi--and it raises a question: How did these shaggy Dickinson kids learn to play it so well...
With just under four minutes left in the first half, Berman used a juke move and a quick first step to rocket the ball towards the Eagle net. It easily beat junior goalkeeper Courtney Schaeffer, but went over the crossbar by just inches...
...precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables, worlds apart, settle into an even coexistence. The short order cook begins to sing the theme song of the brady bunch over the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" coming from the juke box, as I ask my first question...
...referee decided otherwise and play resumed. Senior midfielder Ashley Berman, who anchored the Crimson defense along with classmate Jessica Larson, consistently left Hawk players in her dust with a variety of juke and spin moves and helped the Crimson move the ball out of its own territory...