I’m going to be interested to see how the HullabaLOU mega-concert is supported at Churchill Downs. The cheapest ticket costs $75, which pretty much eliminates the high-school and college kids who were attracted by the night racing programs (or could it possibly have been the ease with which underage drinkers could get beer?)
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A guy turns 66 and he thinks about a lot of stuff. Music is a big part of it. He ponders the career of Michael Jackson, dead at 50, and he has trouble reconciling the Bob Dylan he always has known and loved with the raspy caricature he saw in concert Wednesday night at Slugger […]

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The room in the funeral home was silent and empty yesterday morning, and Tommy Jolly’s silver trumpet sat on a stand near the casket. Around the room, there were easels with pictures of Tommy with Brenda Lee, probably the most famous singer he ever backed, and many of the various Louisville groups with which he […]

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