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DIED. Sam ("Lightnin") Hopkins, 69, black country-blues singer and guitarist whose funky, improvisational style was a major influence on rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s; of cancer; in Houston. A contemporary and peer of such blues artists as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Hopkins' high-pitched voice sang sardonically about pain, suffering and death while his fingers played a hard-driving bass in irregular rhythms. He recorded more than 100 singles and wrote about 600 songs...
Fans call him the "Ragin' Cajun" and "Louisiana Lightnin'." By any other name he is Ron Guidry, the best pitcher in baseball-and the best known of that group of 900,000 French-speaking Louisianians, descendants of French farmer-fishermen, who live in the bayou country south and west of New Orleans. Except for Guidry's left arm, Cajuns are known mostly by hearsay. They are reputed to play strange-sounding accordion music, make a mean gumbo, and generally be as colorful as the crawfish in their bayous. The rumors are right, as Journalist William Rushton demonstrates...
...money for the movies. Mike was born in Rome, where his father was U.S. military attaché. By the time Mike was graduated from West Point in 1952 his father was a retired two-star general, his older brother was a colonel, and his uncle, J. Lawton ("Lightnin' Joe") Collins, was Army Chief of Staff...
...traditional and contemporary blues settings. "Broke My Baby's Heart" features organist Ronnie Barron on vocals and is one of the two tracks featuring a horn section reminiscent of early Butterfield. Here Barron conveys a feeling of strength and emotional intensity which falls somewhere between Fred McDowell and Lightnin' Hopkins...
When Lee Petty first began driving stock cars, races were run on dusty county-fair tracks and dirt ovals. Purses amounted to a few hundred dollars. Many drivers of that era, folklore has it, learned their trade outrunning "revenooers" on mountainous "white-lightnin' trails," screeching through 180° "bootleg turns" without spilling a drop of moonshine. By the time of Papa Petty's retirement in 1962−induced by a nasty 150-m.p.h. crackup that left him with a limp−the circuit was slightly more respectable and much more lucrative. Today, attracting more than...