Word: plunking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...miserable, sloppy, hastily done record; and listening to it, I felt as if Dyland had gone out of his way to thumb his nose at everyone who bought his records on faith. He had put his name on a record and asked us to plunk down six dollars expecting maybe "Desolation Row" or "All Along the Watchtower" or at minimum, "Country Pie." But all we got was: "Ba-loo a-moon, you saw me standing a-lone...
...started wearing off, museum officials had to ask those with sight to refrain from touching. "There's a big difference between the way blind and sighted people touch things," said one museum official. "The hands of the blind come down gently and slowly, like butterflies, while sighted people plunk their hands onto an object...
ROBERTSON: People say rock 'n' roll is a combination of rhythm and blues and country-and-western, but really it's just blues and country. White music has always been very ricky-ticky, steppity-step, plunkety-plunk-banjo. You could always imagine a stiff collar behind it. Country music was played by white people, and blues was played by black people. And when it interchanged, it became something else, which is what Levon's father sings like. He sings blues with a twang, with that different accent, with a different bump on a different place...