Word: lightnin
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...like everything else, it seems--is also going multimedia. A much lauded site opened on the Internet and on America Online last year; a record label was launched last April featuring such blues artists as Lightnin' Hopkins and such gospel acts as Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys of Alabama and Cissy Houston (Whitney's mom). This summer two HOB-produced concert tours will visit 30 cities each: one, a neosoul lineup headlined by the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees, starts July 22; and another featuring blues acts will hit the road July...
Antenna's title was inspired by the band's collective memory of growing up in Texas when the only way to hear records by such guitar masters as B.B. King and Lightnin' Hopkins was to tune late at night to far-flung radio outposts like Chicago's WLS and pirate stations along the Mexican border. Twenty-four years and many albums later, that shared appreciation is still the glue that binds "the little ol' band from Texas." "We wanted to listen mostly to the blues and early rock bands that drove our parents crazy," recalls Gibbons. "They still stand with...
What the show does have in abundance is a non-stop barrage of high-volume song and dance numbers, staged in drill team fashion by director/choreographer Jeff Calhoun. The appealing songs are the ones you already know: "Summer Loving," "We Go Together" and "Greased Lightnin,"' and the others aren't worth hearing. The one good thing about O'Donnell's plaintive lament, "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" is that it is fairly short. The problem with playing classics like "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Peggy Sue" at intermission is that they highlight the poverty of the show...
Having Ron Guidry on the mound was like setting up a tank ready to fire missiles at home plate--all strikes. "Louisiana Lightnin'" was tall and lean and liked to plow fields in his home state during the off-season...