Hints and tips:
...Dr Johnson called one, Kitty Clive, “better than Garrick”. But Jumbo is not after firsts....
...Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” were accurately delivered mid-set, before acting as fuel for Moran’s vivid, contemporary musical imagination....
...But from Mrs Johnson’s opening remarks about the “weight of the soul”, religion haunts Ways like an unrequited love....
...At the wonderful BB King museum in Indianola I learnt that King named his guitar, Lucille, after a woman in a juke joint in Twist, Arkansas, which burnt down when two men fought over her while he was playing...
...At 12 King got his first guitar, teaching himself and trying to copy Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson....
...The buyer of the Farnsworth House was the US National Trust, which also bought Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut....
...Three weeks later Johnson strolled into his Café de Champion in Chicago with the blonde teenager Lucille Cameron. The government accused him of leading Lucille into “white slavery”....
...Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic By Chalmers Johnson Metropolitan Books $26, 368 pages Political commentator Johnson issues a damning indictment of the Bush administration....
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