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Word: ramblin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman said the highlights of the entire inaugural week were Carter's appearance at the Armory and Dicky Betts leading the band in "Ramblin' Man." But not everyone had fun all week...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: The Inauguration | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...problem. The screenplay puts Huddie into situations where he seems to have no choice but to kill. He emerges as a man innocent, put-upon and perennially puzzled by the cruel vicissitudes of life, who would just like to get on with his singin' and his ramblin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...HARD TO SAY exactly what prompted the current tour, but Dylan seems to be trying to heal old wounds, to bring together all the disparate people he has influenced and been influenced by. There's Ramblin' Jack Elliott, just a relic of his Woody Guthrie days--rumor has it his voice was plain then. He had to change registers in Providence on Tuesday to handle the chorus of "Friends of the Devil." Bobby Neuwirth harbored bitterness towards Dylan at one time because he felt that he could have been a superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: On the Street Again | 11/7/1975 | See Source »

...middle class suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across the country with Woody Guthrie. Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response to the inquisition of HUAC prosecutor Frank S. Tavenner. "I know many...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Park Bench Radicalism | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...Ramblin' Wrecks...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Heavyweights Face MIT, Princeton In Compton Cup Contest on Charles | 4/26/1975 | See Source »

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