Word: pickins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ride. In one of the coach cars, Patsy Wells drawled to her friend Linda Moon, "Those Yankees will never believe simple names like ours. So for the Inauguration I'm going to be Dixie Belle Wells and you can be Magnolia Moon." Sam and Annie Taylor, a guitar-pickin' duo from Somerville, Ala., wandered from car to car as the train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter Special ("When I was a young...
...Slim Pickin...
...classical performing arts in the South are not yet a match for the best the North has to offer. Southerners nonetheless have been doing nobly to prove that there is more to their culture than just pickin'. Cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Louisville, Miami and New Orleans have supported and enjoyed orchestras highly regarded all over the country. The South's most significant musical growth stems from the role it has played in the regional-opera boom now sweeping...
...guitar pros like Nashville's Chet Atkins say that Roy's pickin' is just about the best there is. His vibrating high notes come at the listener like a highballing truck. No less extraordinary are his strumming chord changes, his mercurial runs and the broad processional quality of his rhythms...
...Clark, in concert with the Boston Pops. Sunday May 2, 7:30 p.m., Symphony Hall. Roy's had his hard knocks, and you can just barely see the bitterness seething within him despite his deceptive "pickin' and grinnin'" exterior at these concerts. The Boston Pops are grim old men who have retired from the Boston Fire Department...