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Hank’s ‘Last Ride’ slowly hits the theatrical trail |
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 |
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Dear Ken: Whatever happened to that new Hank Williams movie?
That would be “The Last Ride,” which stars Henry Thomas as Williams and co-stars Fred Dalton Thompson, Jesse James and Kaley Cuoco. It has opened in a series of historic theaters across the U.S. and will be shown in major cities from now through August. The independent film focuses on the period when Williams was getting his life back in order after drugs, alcohol, two failed marriages and a hair-trigger temper had nearly ruined his career. In late 1952, he had arranged several New Year’s shows in West Virginia and Ohio but never got there. Somewhere on that last highway, the country music legend passed away on New Year’s Day, in 1953, in the back of his Cadillac, carrying only his guitar and a notebook full of unfinished songs. |
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I promised, but what the hey? |
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 |
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By JOHN L. SLOAN
I promised I wouldn’t put this in a column. But I’m going to anyway because I need a column for this week and I stay way away from water on holidays. I believe you will agree this beats a wrap up of some fishing tournament or one of the TWRA canned releases. This sounds like something I would do back when I was drinking.
See, what happened is Jackie got to talking about eating turtle. Now me, I like me some turtle now and again but I don’t have them as a regular item on my menu. To start with, they are hard to catch and as a gen’l rule, they stink worse than Cletus P. Mudbank on a hot day. However, I do know how to undress one and cook it. Russell Jackson taught me how.
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Britt & Blaire debut on Mt. Juliet Records |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Teen newlyweds harmonize on 'Young Summer'
By KEN BECK
The Wilson Post
MT. JULIET -- Married four months back, admitted beach bums Brittany and Blaire Hanks left their sunny Florida home to make a name for themselves in Music City.
The blonde, blue-eyed 19-year-olds, who perform as Britt & Blaire, recently debuted their first single, “Young Summer,” and its accompanying music video on the newly-formed Mt. Juliet Records label, and Mt. Juliet is now where they hang their hats and guitar in a “tree house.” They will entertain at 4 p.m. next Wednesday as part of the Providence MarketPlace Centerstage Summer Concert Series.
“Young Summer” has been receiving airplay on about 100 country radio stations and on a recent weekend, 30 major stations gave the song a test run.
“We love the beach. We love it a lot. I’ve grown up the tropical-type lifestyle. I knew that I wanted to have a summer song, so I sat down in my room one day and wrote ‘Young Summer,’” said Blaire, who composed the tune when school was getting out and summer break was beginning.
The couple confessed their initial Nashville recording session left them “just blown away.”
“It was crazy because we laid down the (vocal) tracks,” Britt said, before Nashville musicians added the instrumentals. “We were like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ First try, they just started playing it.”
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‘Brave’ doesn’t quite shine |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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By PATRICK HALL
The Wilson Post
After a stint on vacation, I caught “Brave” in our local theater over the weekend, which despite some laughs, the movie presents more of the same: misunderstood princess, overbearing royal mother, witless father and their path to realizing each other’s true worth.
Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell, the latest release from animating juggernaut Pixar, “Brave” is the story of Princess Merida, voiced by Kelly MacDonald, as she struggles with being a princess and her mother, Queen Elinor, voiced by Emma Thompson.
When Merida is informed she is to be married to the eldest son from one of the other three clans, she of course, hates the idea of an arranged marriage and runs away, finding “help” from a witch (Julie Walters) who gives her a magic cake to change her mother’s mind.
Of course, Merida gets far more than she bargains for and for spoiler’s sake I won’t tell you what happens to her mother. But, the mother-daughter pair finds themselves alone in the woods, discovering more about one another and coming to appreciate one another.
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