hambone


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hambone

(ˈhæmˌbəʊn)
n
(Music, other)
a. a method of striking the body in order to provide percussion
b. (as modifier): hambone rhythms.
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The detective on the show plays the hambone card, the perp wilting under a combination of palm strikes and police jargon: Where you'd hide the body, pervo?
Annandale Hambone Rhapsody was potentially the 13th generation of excellent classified cows and she sold for 3,900gns to DC Hall, Church Close Farm, Skipton.
Tenor Adam Fisher played Alfred, Roselinde's paramour, with just enough hambone to capture his scenes without detracting from the musical purpose.
Covers of artists including Slim Harpo and Hambone Willie Newbern were faithfully rendered, without feeling too retro, slotting in perfectly with originals, such as Mystery Man and Blue Collar Jane.
We hear too the elder mystic who might be a madman, who first appears as Bynum in Joe Tinter, and is a symbol of stubborn justice as Hambone in Two Trains Running, only to turn into the drunken wreck of Hedley in Seven Guitars, the Christian prophet Stool Pigeon in King Hedley 11, the nearly immortal.
This year's lineup includes members of the Irish-American group Solas, fiddler and hambone player Steve Hickman, Scottish harpist Maeve Gilchrist and Norwegian fiddle player Mariel Vandersteel.
Next to the mammy hung another sign: Hambone cigars.
October is the month when Clarksdale goes all out and hosts multiple festivals, the Second Street Blues Party, Pinetop Perkins Homecoming Celebration, another Cat Head Mini Blues Fest, and the Hambone Festival, which will be held October 30 through November 3.
And Hambone, a street schizophrenic, comes into the diner each day and eats for free.
I did not have a hand in naming her (big mistake unless it's a moniker like Bacon, Pork Chop or Hambone).
GOLD, silver, bronze - there is a dazzling array of awards all over the wall at the Hambone, Llandudno, and the accolades keep coming in.