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First period--1. H. Christine Burne (Johanna Neilson) 3:41. 2. H. Juke Sasner (Landry) 5:08. Penalties--Caroher Kryspin, C (cross-checking) 7:26; Lauren Fuchs, C (booking...
...short, a great American songwriter, with the clean-cut narrative gifts of Chuck Berry, the honesty of a Hank Williams and the rave-up musical skills of a perfesser in a Saturday night juke joint. The guys in Creedence were good, but they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going...
...Bros.). Rickie Lee Jones was unique and wholly left field even when she had a surprise hit, Chuck E.'s in Love, from her debut album back in 1979. She sounded like a saloon singer with Listerine in her shot glass and wrote songs that came off like juke joint Kerouac. This is only her third full album, and she seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems...
...navigational purposes, it will help to know that you are 21 miles northwest of Chicago. Not the twilight zone exactly, but not the main stem either. With a little imaginative set decoration, the Schaumburg Snuggery could be converted to a roadhouse from a John O'Hara novel; a juke joint from the Big Band era; a belly-up beer parlor with a platform for a three-piece oldies combo; or the only place in America where no one has heard that disco is dead. A perfect period set-for any period-if it were not for those screens...
...father was in partnership with Cosimo Matassa, who owned the only big recording studio in New Orleans. In the '40s they would deliver records to black hotels that had juke boxes in the rooms. My father would give me all the old 78s. When I was a teen-ager he got me a work permit so I could work clubs. He knew I'd sneak out and not go to school anyway. So rather than have me get a prison record, he'd just say, 'Well, go ahead and do it if you're going...