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...sales once scarcely dreamed of in the country field. In the past two years, three such albums have gone platinum, in trade parlance (i.e., sold 1 million copies): an anthology of progressive stars titled The Outlaws, the duo album Waylon & Willie and Willie's own Red Headed Stranger. Willie's latest, Stardust, is currently one of the nation's hottest-selling country LPs, even though it consists entirely of Tin Pan Alley standards...
...songs on the run, scribbling them on cardboard boxes, napkins, the backs of airline tickets. Best of all, he likes to compose them in his head while roaring down a highway in a car. Four years ago, he and Connie sketched out the whole of his Red Headed Stranger LP during an all-night drive from Colorado to Texas, fitting new songs side by side with traditional tunes and country standards to form a unified narrative of love and death, sin and redemption...
...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
Studs Terkel, author of the "oral history" Working: "The most rewarding moment comes when a stranger writes and says, 'I have read Working and now I'll never talk rudely to a waitress again...
...July. Dating back to 1867, Brown's Mill stands in all the interesting stages of decay known to brick, mortar and wood. As MacArthur takes you on the conducted tour, picking his way buoyantly through the rubble, he can manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry lie the makings of a Utopian community, or at least a working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space...