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Producer Daily, who increasingly was introducing Jones to the dubious joys of the Nashville Sound, had the sense to lay off on the strings and backup singers when he recorded Melba and George. Just a strummed guitar, bass, piano (with ace session man Pig Robbins at the ivories), fiddle, dobro and a tasty pedal steel (played by the incomparable Buddy Emmons). I don't even detect a drum beat on this track. In part, this was an attempt to cash in on the early-'60s craze for all types of folk music; no matter, the results are glorious...
...look in a piano bench and pull out a bunch of pieces of paper that we call music, sheet music. But it's not music. It's a representation. To me, music happens when sound is heard by people for pleasure. Music happens in time, not on paper. Someone has to be creating, and someone has to be listening...
...time, the Gingers were friends with some of Massachusetts' best-known members of the left. Ann Ginger took piano lessons from the wife of Otis Hood, who was the head of the Communist Party of Massachusetts. Ann Ginger says she attended many more political meetings than her husband but still cannot say whether her involvement reached to a level that could be termed "membership" in the Party...
...band's new vocal lineup. The band's instrument work was equally superb. Louris' harmonica brought a classic country sound to the driving rock sound characteristic of the live show. New addition Jen Gunderman provided a deft touch on the keyboards. Even Johnson slid over to show off on piano...
...Yellow Oval Room and the adjoining room on the second floor may have spawned the most intimate and exotic stories. Adams gave that first public reception in that Oval Room, and it became Andrew Jackson's family parlor. First Lady Abigail Fillmore moved in her piano and her daughter's harp. When Congress anted up $2,000 for books, she established the first White House Library...