Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points south, guitar in hand. "I was born to do it, man," Robertson recalls. "Born to pack my bag and be on my way down the Mississippi River. I was music-crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Junior Parker?and they kept talking about those places in their music...
...feels he is a hometown boy, and instead of taking pride in him, [the Sun] acts like it is ashamed of him." The Hearst papers got a seat without applying for one. With spots reserved for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and a correspondent for the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Greenville (S.C.) News and the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, the press delegation seemed safe from a leftward tilt...