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...blues singers, spawned in the sorrow of the sharecroppers' shotgun shacks (so called because the rooms are one behind the other, allowing a shot fired through the front door to sail straight out the back door -- unless something gets in the way). Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James ("Son") Thomas -- most of modern American music has its roots in the Delta. Big Jack ("the Oil Man") Johnson plays there now, one of many with more coming on, including his nephew, James ("Super Chicken") Johnson...
...most recent odyssey took a week, during which he zigzagged 1,000 miles up 200 miles of the fabled Mississippi Delta. Yes, Faulkner came from here, but, more important to Malcolm White at the moment, so did B.B. King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and a lot of old lesser lights who still sing the blues off the front porches of tumbledown shacks. "Check this out," White said at one point. "We're going to pick up a blind man that's going to show...
...collision between the Stones and the States had an impact on the music as well. Convening here with their idols--Berry, Waters, Diddley. Howlin Wolf--they received new encouragement to use the American classics as a foundation as they moved onto orginal work. While Richards honed his barebones, metallic mixture of rock and R & B. Jagger discovered that the old stories about screwing and getting screwed over could be retold--with more of a snarl, if that seemed right, or even a touch of parody, to show that the whole business didn't mean much to the Stones...
Ever' time Dolly walks onto the set in some wild new outfit, the boys in the crew start howlin' like prairie wolves. Dolly, though, she takes it in stride. In the movie she looks down at her front porch and says, "I can't balance these things, let alone get up on my toes. If I fell down, they'd have to milk me to get me up." As for her own overripe body, Dolly repeats Joan Rivers' joke about her "Orson Welles designer jeans" and shrugs and smiles and says, "My fat never made...
Ever since the release of Howlin' Wind in 1976, Parker has stalked the big time, collecting delirious reviews but staying an arm's length away from the top of the charts and the kind of record sales that are commemorated with albums cast in semiprecious elements. Just last spring, with a new record company behind him, Parker released one of the year's best albums, Squeezing Out Sparks, and set out on two bruising cross-country concert tours to rally fans and baptize some new converts. His style of total-immersion rock is a salubrious shock...