Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just when you thought your blues collection was complete, Columbia Records reaches back into its well-stocked vaults and brings forth a treasury of historic sides that helped lay the groundwork for modern rock, soul and rhythm and blues. The first eight releases in the ambitious ROOTS 'N BLUES series feature the work of such greats as Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Dixon. But the most eagerly awaited offering is the boxed, two-volume (CD or cassette) set containing all 41 known takes by the legendary Robert Johnson, whose brooding, anguished voice and ringing guitar...
...teased for having a Dutch accent. (His engineer father had taken the family to the Netherlands in the 1950s.) A bookish loner in school, Duke sought out extremist mentors who treated him as a brilliant young disciple. With contemporaries he was condescending or defiant, moving to a deeper rhythm of history than they could be aware of, trying to shock them into submission with "street theater" involving swastikas and Klan robes...
...Concerto in F. And now I had made an appointment with his successors to judge the extent of change among the dread Security Police in the new South Africa. Though I was no longer too scared to go in there, I was sufficiently apprehensive to resort mentally to Fascinating Rhythm as I pressed the button beside the familiar steel grille...
...stuck with the game plan," Caples said. "It is very hard to be disciplined for 70 minutes, but we did it. We didn't want to let Northeastern get into a rhythm, a flow. We moved people around for this game to have specific matchups. Obviously, it worked...
...that way? Don't bet on it. Looking out over a dappled glade that leads down to the river, Morris says, "I like to see people do what they're not expected to do. I like to see how slow things relate to fast things, I like charged-up rhythm. One reason I make up dance concerts is that then I have something to watch that I like." A thousand steps onward...