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...charmingly enough, a section for teachers and children on teaching about sound and rythm in the classroom, linked from the Museum of Science. Or you might look up Cresswell and McNicholas's sound-track from the Showtime movie Riot, or their composition on Quincy Jones's album Q's Juke Joint, or the upcoming public-television special...
...mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
...clubs that form the foundation for this new empire effect the rundown look and feel of a backwater juke joint, but folk art and antique guitars decorate their walls. A dozen color-TV monitors provide close-ups of the action on stage. The menu offers a melange of Southern dishes, from smothered chicken to spicy quesadillas. The performers are sometimes just as varied: such established blues acts as Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, even reggae star Ziggy Marley. The Los Angeles club has developed such a hot reputation among mainstream musicians that the artist formerly known...
...seems every country-music juke box has just one song on it these days: Shania Twain's Any Man of Mine. This chirpy feminist anthem, so popular that it has inspired a parody version by a male singer, is generic pop at its most infectious. It has a little festival of familiar tropes: fiddles and steel guitars, drawling humor and tight harmonies, a pounding melody echoing Neil Young's Love Is a Rose and some "yeahs" filched from Ray Charles. There's even a snatch of rap, square-dance style, as it might be rendered by a cheerleader at Buford...
...nine in the morning, and Fred's Lounge is packed. please do not stand on the tables, chairs, cigarette machines, booths and juke-box! warns the sign on the wall of the tiny, bunker-like tavern on the main street of Mamou, Louisiana. Despite the early hour-the club is open just one day a week, Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.-the all-white crowd is washing down breakfasts of spicy boudin with cold, long-necked beers. As the onlookers tap their toes and stamp their feet, bandleader Don Thibodeaux, backed by an accordion, steel guitar, fiddle, drums...