Gene from the Badlands of South Dakota grew up hearing his grandmother’s temperance-flavored line, Cold water is the cup that cheers away, away the bowl. The clue is away the bowl, a refrain in abstinence songs and rhymes going back at least to the...
roast n.— «In musicians’ parlance, a “roast” refers to a particularly challenging gig. I am currently stuck in snowy Gatwick awaiting a plane to the Matterhorn, on the way to a prog-rock roast presided over by the impossibly affable Jon Lord (of...
