Word: tupelo
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...phenomenon called rock [MUSIC, Sept. 4]. The music began way before radio, TV, albums, cassettes or CDs. From Clarksville, Mississippi, came the blues, a real, dynamic, burning-for-the-truth-to-be-told music. This spirit moved swiftly from the delta to places like Memphis, Tennessee, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Then history changed forever when a young man named Elvis took this raw, untainted music from his heart and shared it with the world. Ask Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top or many others which individuals influenced them, and it becomes all too clear: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert...
Hooker shows another side to his talent in the more traditional, talkin' blues song "Tupelo." The center of the song is a sparse, melodious lick repeated over a haunting narrative of a flood in Tupelo, Mississippi...
...crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album of submerged pain. Redbone, written by the singer, consists only of her molasses vocals, the twanging of a pedal steel guitar and African-tinged percussion. On the album's best track, a cover of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Wilson reveals the song's soul not through vocal gymnastics, but by lingering caresses of each line. She creates emotional tension by holding power in reserve...
...supporters, however, are trying to turn his dismissal into a blessing in disguise. Last week hundreds of students staged walkouts in Jackson and in such cities as Tupelo and Hattiesburg. About 4,000 supporters cheered and clapped at a pro-prayer rally at the state capitol. The demonstrations have been attended by both blacks and whites -- a rare confluence of sympathies in the South. Members of the religious right hope to turn this popular support for a black educator into a nationwide movement to undo the Supreme Court's declaration that school prayer is unconstitutional. Says Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice...
During spring break, the Glee Club will tour Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis. Memphis and Tupelo, Miss., according to Koshy Mathai '94, the group's vice president, and then will tour East Asia this summer. "We haven't been to Asia in about a decade, so we're very excited," Mathai said...