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Dust Bowl and Depression. Humphrey dwells fondly, at times movingly, on the Dust Bowl and Depression years that scarred his psyche without crushing his spirit: "I used to see my father, his exuberant spirits momentarily giving in, sitting head in hands, grinding his life away between unpaid bills and unpaid...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir...
Underlying much that is happening is a new sense of competition. Owners have always spoken highly of competition, but what they had in mind was team-against-team on the field. They never bestirred themselves greatly to compete with other amusements for the entertainment dollar, and they did not have...
New authors soon discover that the tour is a grinding, unglamorous ordeal. What should be a time to savor the satisfaction of having completed months, even years of solitary work turns into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be...
One or two men have joined the waiting line. No one is really sure whey they're here--the men's room is a short five feet away--but no one pays any attention. Music is piped in from the main room and some have started dancing to it, watching...