THE traditional August shutdown of Italian factories usually lifts the spirits of blue-collar workers, who can look forward to up to four weeks away from toiling on the production line.
In that spirit, Austin carefully illustrates through a dozen originals and standards the indivisible spirit of blues-jazz and Black America, themselves, together, indivisible.
Fahey had the uncanny ability to channel the spirit of blues styles past, particularly the Delta blues of the 20's, and Mr. Viertel is precisely right in attributing this to his overheated imagination as much as to his guitar technique.
As an African-American small business owner, he hopes the entrepreneurial spirit of Beyu Blue Coffee and Beyu Caffe will inspire students from all backgrounds.
After the ceremony, I caught up with Maude as she stood amid the curious tufts of yucca and gazed out at miles and miles of desert, since time immemorial the home of Kayumarie, the spirit of the Blue Deer, and the Huichol hunting grounds for their sacred hikuri, or peyote.
Fahey's tastes tended towards the old and overlooked, the strange and the primitive, and his guitar playing seems to summon up the spirits of long-dead blues and ragtime pioneers.
First Presbyterian plans to start renovating the 23,000-square-foot building next year, creating a cultural center complete with a museum, a performance space, an art studio and a music education center called "The Spirit of the Blues".
The story concerns Marvell Thunder, a mythic figure with supernatural powers -- a being who carries with him the spirit of the blues -- and his challenge to the son and daughter of Jaguar Dupree, the only man who ever outplayed him on the guitar.
Robert Johnson, the "Spirit of the Blues," was notorious for "selling his soul" to the Devil at a crossroads near Clarksdale, Mississippi in exchange for musical mastery.
In the true spirit of the blues, the threat of mortality may have been expected, though it hardly cast a pall on the electricity and energy that Kooper, Vivino and their guest, John Sebastian gifted the audience.
And if the blue blood spirit-of-the-chase is all a lie, and they were just roping me in to give themselves some unfair advantage, well... too bad they didn't realize I'd already been pressed into service, become a co-conspirator for the other side.
