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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album Where There's Smoke, they are tough guys with heart and humor. They can taunt a lady friend's angry father ("Your daddy hates me/ Much as I love you . . ./ He don't know we're a lot alike,/ You been keepin' us both awake all night") or wail like good ole boys stranded at the altar ("She's gettin' a rock/ And I'm gettin' stoned,/ She's tyin' the knot/ And I'm tyin' one on"). This is 90- proof vox-pop poetry, with a rhythm-guitar chaser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 22, 1993 | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...accompanied by Jason Starkey, Ringo Starr's son. Shortest, but not least, is "Monster" Mikey Welch, a thirteenyear-old blues guitar prodigy who plays with the savvy of a bluesman twice or three times his age. This kid is barely old enough to have the blues, but he can wail through twelve bars like nobody's business. Carla Thomas, Joe Walsh, and the Blues Brothers Band wrap up the show with a rousing "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." Jake would be proud...

Author: By J.c. Herz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The House of Blues | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...British are coming! The British are coming! And this time, they're not coming by land or sea, but by air! That cry of alarm can be heard in Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta these days, as leaders of the top U.S. airlines wail about a threat to their hard-won global dominance. While on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton joined the chorus of alarm. In the final presidential debate, Ross Perot sounded the most impassioned warning of all. "We're getting ready to dismantle an airlines industry in our country, and none of you know it," he declared. "This deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Wars | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...knocking off a diverting lyric with "You're the One for Me, Fatty." In this song he beseeches his obese sweetheart to "say if I'm ever in your way..a-hey,-a HAAAAY." He really wallows in the line, and the song offers hope that his old languid wail may not be gone for good...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: An Empty Arsenal | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

...Watch Me Grow." Condom Caps are available for those who want to protect their heads as well as other parts of the anatomy. The Ultimate Birth Control Pill, when squeezed, emits a chilling reminder of what might happen if birth control devices aren't used: a baby's wail...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rubber for All Reasons | 7/7/1992 | See Source »

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