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...learned of the MP3 phenomenon when Jonathan Clenman, a tech guy in my office, took me over to his PC recently and showed me what I've been missing. He had more than 160 songs on his computer, which was playing like a juke box, pumping out music whose quality was so good, I couldn't differentiate it from a CD player. "This is the end of the recording industry!" I shrieked. Clenman sighed. "I doubt it," he said...
...counting. Forty-three albums; more than 57 million copies sold. A series of dreams about America as it once and never was. It was folk music, deep within its core, from the mountains and the delta and the blacktop of Highway 61. Rhythm and blues, too, and juke-joint rock 'n' roll, and hymns from backwoods churches and gospel shouts from riverside baptisms. He put all that together, and found words to match...
Asked to explain, she says she is referring tothe kids who drive up and down Acushnet Avenue andfrequent the Juke Box, one of New Bedford's fewnightclubs...
...fact, at their recent Juke Jam concert, the Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes reappeared after their normal set to sing--surprise--"Change in My Life," the emotional gospel tune which many say is their best song. No matter how good the song or the group, it is presumptuous to withhold your best song from the normal set in expectation of being asked for an encore...
...weekend's events include Ashong's musical tonight, followed by a "juke joint" dessert reception in Loker Commons...