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...Allstars spend most of their time on the road (their van, Dirty Red, has logged 53,000 miles in the past 18 months alone), fusing the punkish energy of juke-joint blues with rock-guitar solos and hip-hop beats--and getting neo-hippie kids twirling to old Mississippi Fred McDowell tunes and hard-core kids moshing and crowd surfing to primal Robert Johnson licks. Their debut CD, a raucous collection of hill-country standards called Shake Hands with Shorty, is generating ecstatic reviews, and though purists complain that the Allstars play adulterated blues, most folks in north Mississippi...
...more of Fred's puzzles, see his website at macnamarasband.com...
...come, like Toronto's Tony Bautista and Anaheim's Troy Glaus. You'll also see some veterans who are no doubt as surprised as you are that they're playing in the big game; in this group count Baltimore's Mike Bordick, Milwaukee's Bob Wickman and Tampa's Fred McGriff. The result is a game that's long on fresh faces: It will be the first or second time for 36 of the 66 players on the All-Star roster. That means that more than half the guys playing in the game will be able to say, without irony...
...more of Fred's puzzles, see his website at macnamarasband.com...
When you are young and forget something, you need to pay more attention. When you are middle-aged and forget, you are absentminded. When you are over 60, you've got Alzheimer's. It's all the same thing. So why worry? FRED G. THOMPSON Ottawa...