Word: pickin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those paralyzing fears. I still love playing the guitar and singing along, whether it's to blues, folk or some straight-up rock. Besides, I've got this irrational confidence that everything'll be alright. I'm not claiming that everything I touch turns to gold, but I keep pickin', and I keep getting better at it; I figure one of these days, I'll set up shop in the Park Street T-stop and find myself swept along from Boston to the world. Ahh...sounds beautiful. And while people do tend to tell me that it sounds totally implausible...
...furious, sly thick beats sounding like he's been ridin' a HORSE a horse of course of course unless its a SMACK and JB himself sounding...restrained? So here it comes, full-force Mothership, landing at a DISCO nearest you and now, twenty-years later still goin' down pickin' yer ass and then smellin' th' funky finger, right in yo' nose. From my ass to you. Achoo...
...Cowboy Junkies are what would have happened to country music in a world without Ronald Reagan (and Garth Brooks). The new album Black Eyed Man invites you to imagine such a world (call it Canada?) and to "think of all the poetry/ and the pickin' down the line...
...KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS: PICKIN' ON NASHVILLE (Mercury/PolyGram). Quirky, impolite country music by a new band that respects tradition but takes its own route back to the roots. Classics by the likes of Bill Monroe and Don Gibson are burnished with a hard-driving, honky-tonk brio that suits the Headhunters' original material just fine...