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Stradlin and his session musicians let loose on "Time Gone By," a hand-clappin', thigh-slappin' bluesy guitar jam that shows the band at its best. A simple tale of love and loss and the effects of time and distance, "Time Gone By" has little to offer in the way of lyrical artistry but the groove is good and the sound satisfying...

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: Music | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...contemporary. Country stations rank in first place in 45 of the top 100 radio markets, including Buffalo, Kansas City and Orlando. Without much fanfare, discos that used to play Top 40 tunes have been converting into country music clubs, where cowboy wannabes pull up in Hondas to dance the Slappin' Leather, the Tush Push or the Texas two-step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...Back-slappin drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...play with him until the 40's. But I started listenin' to Drag when I was only a little bitty fella.' He didn't play no bass, then. He played guitar and sang creole songs. He had a little group of 'bout three or four pieces. Had a fella slappin' a washboard" -- George made a washboard-slapping gesture--"and a fella on violin, and Drag. They would go all around to little picnics, and backyard parties, and wakes and weddin's. Wherever they could find food and liquor." He smiled...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: 'I Had to Make Music Like That, Too' | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

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