Steve Earle - Snake Oil
Track 2 from Copperhead Road"
"It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" (Wendell Hall, 1923)
Wendell Hall's a quadruple threat here, as lyricist, composer, vocalist and ukelele player. The nonsense verses are largely of folk origin ...
An evening with Alice Cooper's movie nightmares at the BFI
While it's true that Ozzy Osbourne may well be the Prince of Darkness, there is only one undisputed King, a man who has rocked and shocked audiences all over the world with his outrageous, and outrageously entertaining live shows for over four decades, and who shows no sign of letting up any time soon. I speak, of course, of the one and only Mr Alice Cooper, a man who has forgotten more about horror movies than most people know to start with (with the possible exception of the encyclopaedic Kim Newman), and in whose company I was privileged to spend an hour and a half on the Friday before Halloween at the British Film Institute in London as he discussed his favourite Nightmare Movies with an audience of just 400 or so people.
As Alice took to the stage, along with Fright Fest founder Alan Jones, who was hosting the talk, the atmosphere in the room full of film buffs and costumed fans (one decked out in a magnificent silver glittery School's Out suit, complete with top hat) was electric.
Snake Rain Hat News
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Nov. 18 through 24 Events Calendar Features pianist David Bowman of Pocatello; Snake River Flats; Santa's Singers; Soft Touch; Ruth Lovelace and her son, John Lovelace; and Dan Hendrix and daughter. Gary Schorzman is master of ceremonies, with Judy Barnes at the piano. ... |
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A Pair of Kings After I caught the pass and ran it in for the touchdown, I came to the sideline. Coach Jordan wore an old rain hat . . . He put that hat on me and he said, 'You the damnedest player I've ever had. You should be the coach. Here, you wear the hat. ... |
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Concert review: Guns N' Roses at Lloyd Noble Center (AP Photo/Nousha Salimi) When Rose took the stage at 10:45 pm after an opening set by Oklahoma City's Hinder, he looked fit and sounded much like the snake-dancing dervish who dominated stadiums in the late-1980s and early 1990s. ... |
Wallow on the Amazon
The snake is almost two metres long and had the misfortune of getting tangled in his fishing nets that morning. Coehlo, who grew up in the remote Amazon village of Aucayacu, is full of folklore, local knowledge and the occasional tall tale. ...
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An evening with Alice Cooper's movie nightmares at the BFI
When asked about his favourite directors, Alice spoke about John Carpenter, who he revealed was a huge wrestling fan, having met him at Wrestlemania III where Alice had been in Jake 'The Snake' Roberts' corner during his match with The Honky Tonk Man. ...
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