They’ve toured as the backing band for blues badass T-Model Ford and cut a record with the ol’ cuss, which means Seattle’s GravelRoad knows the Mississippi Delta sound like T-Model knows the inside of a jail cell. And they hit the stage even harder than they hit the bottle, chasing the ghosts of those backwoods juke joints where this music was born.
The big game is here. And for a lot of dudes, that’s not even the one on TV.
As Tina Enard conceived her entry for the El Cortez suite redesign competition, she dropped in elements that would evoke the Mafia’s heyday in Las Vegas, particularly a wall-sized black-and-white photo of the desert, where people who fell out of favor were sent for “dirt naps.” But she also paid more attention to the bathroom than any of the other three finalists.
A North Carolina investment banker has added fuel to speculation that the World Market Center will wind up under the same ownership as some of its main rivals.