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Two years ago, John Hart Ely was just another professor of Law. His no-nonsense style and scholarship had won him the respect of his colleagues in Langdell Hall, but Ely shunned the spotlight almost aggressively, avoiding the congressional hearings and public histrionics that many fellow professors revelled in. On...
DIED. Sigurd Olson, 82, who led a 60-year fight to protect the wilderness along the U.S.-Canadian border; of a heart attack, after snowshoeing; in Ely, Minn. Among his books are The Singing Wilderness and Runes of the North.
Joe Ely: Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (Southcoast/MCA). Joe Ely knows where to find the rockabilly roots along those back-country roads.
Ely just turns the song around and sends it back out again as a tribute.
The music that Joe Ely makes has so many cross-cultural inflections that trying to classify it seems ultimately a fussy academic exercise. His songs are what country music used to be before it became a main tributary of show business. And so what if Joe Ely has not been...