Word: talkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, it's been a long time now, now ain't it? A long time since we got together and did some talkin'. Yeah, I kinda missed it too, but things just kept comin' up and all, ya know...
...Take your partner to Wonderland Dog Track on Wednesday nights. The Butterfly Lounge across the street has an amateur striptease night with $100 top prize. Patrons occasionally get shot for "talkin' down on somebody's woman," providing colorful material for short stories and New Yorker profiles...
Gosh! Shucks! Gee whiz! Jody and Ham a-settin' thar in the White House bitin' them nails and burpin' Tab while talkin' about folks who is "less eclectic philosophically" stirs the juices of us dung stampers in Wisconsin. Them is our kind of people...
...postponed mentioning Guy Clark's No. 1 (RCA) till now to try to get a grip on myself. Never mind: it's probably the finest country album I've ever heard. The best numbers are "Rita Ballou" ("She's a rawhide rope and velvet mixture/ Walkin' talkin' Texas texture/ High timin' barroom fixture/ Kind or a girl") and "Texas--1947". This is the first album for Clark, a first-rate songwriter who wrote a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker's material. His voice is a raunchy beer-soaked, high whine, gritty and vital. Playboy calls his songs "Larry McMurtry...
...told him every club to hit every day, and kept talkin to him all the time--you gotta talk to him or he goes loco," Killer was saying. "The 17th was the crucial one. We went off the tee with a four-wood--it's really a two-iron shot, but Victor can't hit a two-iron--then we went with a little seven iron from 160 yards out on the slope. I knew when we made that six-footer for par we were all right. But we had to go with a driver...