Mr. Lando played it with flinty sound and infectious exuberance.
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No actor portrays flinty, defiant intelligence better than Annette Bening.
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Her personality was flinty and rough and as leathery as her skin.
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Flinty Emily rejected his impress, but emollient Charlotte fell under his spell.
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The flinty Sister Maria reveals she was once a "coquette" and struggled with celibacy.
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There's Motown soul, flinty Memphis blues and svelte 1980s balladry etched into these songs.
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These were more efficient than thin flinty rocks, which can't sustain a sharp edge.
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The flinty composer Carl Ruggles, who took part in the guild, advocated undiluted modernism.
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She is beautiful, in a taut, flinty way, and carries herself like a queen.
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True to form, Ms. Radvanovsky sings with searing power, flinty attack and incisive coloratura passagework.
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She was flinty in a way that the willfully imperceptive could easily mistake for chipper.
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Ms. Stemme was stunning, singing with winsome beauty one moment, and flinty power the next.
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The flinty sound he summoned in the most fraught passages certainly conveyed its hurtling angst.
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"Yongzheng Dynasty", a drama from 1999, recast the unpopular Yongzheng emperor as a flinty corruption-fighter.
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Yet the composer of "Fanfare for the Common Man" could also be flinty, brash and radical.
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Mr. Ribot sat hunched over his guitar throughout this reeling excursion, his output flinty and furious.
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Guadagnino has created a weighty manifesto, propelled by strident feminism and delivered with flinty-eyed sincerity.
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The outpost's flinty governor, Peter Stuyvesant, recoiled when 23 refugees from Portuguese-ruled Brazil arrived in 1654.
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Mr. Bavouzet tore through the piece with abandon, dispatching tangles of lines and chords with flinty power.
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The soils there are often clay and tuffeau, a form of limestone, as well as flinty silex.
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When the piano dreamily enters with wistful, wandering lines spiked with flinty harmonies, Bernstein just listens, overcome.
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Stockhausen's flinty, shattering "Klavierstücke I" somehow set the mood for a beguiling Minimalist étude by Philip Glass.
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In a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, he cast himself as a flinty defender of the police.
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Shimon has issues, too — we glimpse his flinty side — but Shaul, perpetually sour, appears incapable of experiencing joy.
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His touch along the fretboard could seem molten or flinty or lacy, all within a single zippering phrase.
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Elizabeth Strout is a writer bracingly unafraid of silences, her vision of the world northern, Protestant and flinty.
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A fine layer of flinty ash covered the hoods of the cars at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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And Mr. Salonen, who came to attention as a flinty Finnish modernist composer, has taken a similar course.
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Pair the scallops with a green salad and, not to drift into Florence's lane, a flinty white wine.
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The second is like a flinty, modernist étude that unfolds in one breakneck, twisting line, with no chords.
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Photographs: Images from the day show soldiers waiting with clenched jaws and flinty eyes, offering a definition of valor.
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Foley, a flinty New Englander with a model's frame who raised five children and worked as a nurse practitioner.
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He died as a celebrated poet of the U.S. and its people, especially the flinty farmers of New England.
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While Eilish's previous releases have featured her flinty, defensive side, her debut album also admits to sorrows and vulnerabilities.
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But maybe Americans are not as flinty a race as we appear to be when we're chanting at rallies.
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So if, for the remainder of his very long career, he was a bit flinty, could you blame him?
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Yet when the music turns crazed, with flinty chords and pummeling octaves, he could summon plenty of darkness and danger.
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Wearing a flinty expression, her jaw jutting, she did some light stretches and jogged around the hall to loosen up.
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Merwin's prose is lush, companionable, and funny, alert to the ironies of everyday life and utterly unlike his flinty poems.
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We've been shouting about this Chicago rapper for some time now because her raps are flinty and cool as fuck.
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But the anchor is Mr. Levine (Captain Stottlemeyer in the TV series "Monk"), winningly combining paternal concern and flinty resolve.
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The piano part goes through quick shifts, from dreamy musings to flinty outbursts, spiky 12-tone like intricacies and sizzling jazz.
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She sniffed out stories and lobbed flinty challenges to Clark Kent; she also was in seeming constant need of Superman's saving.
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He's in a flinty mood, and for reasons as yet unknown, he's triggered by a photograph of the Sydney Opera House.
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Her unmistakable Irish accent and the Celtic inflections of her melodies gave her singing a plaintive individuality and a flinty core.
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She's nicely acerbic and flinty as Rosemary, with a wide-eyed idealism that becomes increasingly desperate as the episode goes on.
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There are certainly positive aspects to the maverick label, which suggests a composer of flinty individuality unbound by protocols and conventions.
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That seemed ridiculously backward by the lights of the time's reigning vanguards of flinty post-minimalism, cagey conceptualism, and chaste abstraction.
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S.C.W. "American Rage"; Conrad Tao, piano (Warner Classics) Conrad Tao's "American Rage" is a timely collection of flinty contemporary American pieces.
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But he died as a celebrated poet of the United States and its people, especially the flinty farmers of New England.
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But the bigger mystery the series explores is actually Camille herself: What led her to transform from cheerleader queen to flinty misfit?
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The biggest standout among the younger stars is Viswanathan, whose fearless, flinty vibe left me eager to see where she'd go next.
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But it's Ms. Davi — whose Julia is sensual yet sensible, feminine yet flinty, embodying poise and intelligence — who generates the star power.
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Accepting her prize as best actress, the ever-flinty 82-year-old Glenda Jackson referred to her director Joe Mantello as John.
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He emphasized the flinty harmonic writing and jagged edges of Copland's 1930 Piano Variations, this composer's most modernist work for the instrument.
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She's willing to be as flinty, opaque, or off-putting as needed; she doesn't soften characters in order to make them more accessible.
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She took over her family's company, Columbia Sportswear, when her husband died and saw it flourish, becoming its flinty public face in ads.
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Sentiment, though, is scarce, befitting the flinty style of Mr. Hersh, who has a knack for cycling through employers and exhausting his editors.
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A pair of elegant black pumps with rosy interiors and deliberately bumpy surfaces are a flinty joke about gender roles, sex and mortality.
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Amanda Castro's flinty Anita turns in a suitably atomic "America," with its zestful feud over which island — Puerto Rico or Manhattan — is best.
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The huge new euro-zone budget he proposed has been rejected by the flinty Germans, and will be tiny if it exists at all.
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Every time your character dies, they "age" by a year, their stiff video-game-character hair slowly graying and flinty face webbing with wrinkles.
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Photographs from the era of soldiers waiting their nervous turn with clenched jaws and flinty eyes seem to offer a definition of valor itself.
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Olaf Scholz, the new SPD finance minister, has failed to purge his department's upper ranks of staff installed by Wolfgang Schäuble, his flinty CDU predecessor.
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Senior figures in Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), such as Wolfgang Schäuble, the flinty finance minister, have already dismissed Mr Macron's euro-zone proposals.
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Her sister, who's as flinty as their parents and helps to raise Jane, shows her the allures and perils of willfulness and living outside convention.
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Flinty, funny, stylish, and mannish, a blend of Amelia Earhart and Humphrey Bogart, Dorothea adores Jamie, but her Depression-era rigor precludes her saying so.
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An American of Chinese immigrant heritage, Mr. Tao performed flinty works by Copland and the American maverick Frederic Rzewski, whose leftist convictions permeate his music.
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The first offers three Copland works, including the flinty Orchestral Variations and the seldom-heard 1926 Piano Concerto (with Inon Barnatan), and Schumann's Second Symphony.
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Whether American welfare continues to converge gradually with the rest of the rich world, or stays distinctively flinty, depends on which Wagner comes out on top.
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"The Treasure" is like the work of Samuel Beckett's long-lost Balkan cousin — bleak, stoic and suffused with a flinty, exasperated empathy for its ridiculous characters.
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The used condoms tangled in flinty seaweed, refusing to glint in the tarnished silver sunlight; the cancer-hobbled gulls screaming for food like old homeless gunks.
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The intensity starts in its first seconds, when Elvis Martini (Nickola Shreli, flinty and convincing) bolts down the street after setting fire to his Detroit home.
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His role on "Bodyguard" last fall served as a reintroduction of sorts, a signal to the industry that Madden's matinee-idol looks had grown gratifyingly flinty.
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Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.
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He gave blazing performances of Copland's flinty Piano Sonata and two fiendish works by the maverick composer Frederic Rzewski that incorporate labor movement songs and anthems.
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A decade of war against the regime of Siad Barre in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, reduced Somaliland's two largest cities to rubble, yet produced a flinty patriotic spirit.
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Brosnan does what he can in these limited circumstances, playing Eli as a charismatic salesman with a flinty side, someone who doles out Southern charm until crossed.
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They existed in different circles of New York's ultrarich: Mr. Bloomberg is known as a generous philanthropist; Mr. Trump appears to have been flinty in his giving.
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On the sliver that remains, Alice, a flinty woman in her 70s, scrapes by selling dusty novelty fireworks from a roadside table draped in ratty flag bunting.
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Hurston is an irascible, flinty protagonist, given to dramatic outbursts and inappropriate frankness, and it's in scenes such as these that Bagge is most in his element.
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But despite the performances — Jonathan Goad makes a flinty Atticus and the child actors are, thankfully, not overpolished — the production never realizes the power of the novel.
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Culturally, Canadians are flinty, they say: Alberta's economy has been walloped by the drop in the oil price since 20.7, for example, but defaults there have barely risen.
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The phrase makes me think of a Clint Eastwood plotline in which the flinty ex-cop's heart melts after interacting with a plucky kid or a service dog.
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You could even imagine this version of "Arturo Ui" winning the flinty heart of its author, for its imaginative interpretation of the Brechtian dictates of style and sensibility.
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The entries about the IHOP he frequents, and the rotating cast of flinty waitresses and damaged customers, feel like tracks off an early EP of a beloved band.
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Sometimes known as the Baroness, she was flinty and imperious and did not gladly suffer fools, a category that included most of the people who worked at Knopf.
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Dermisache's writings will never disclose all their flinty secrets, but lately it has become easier to understand something of what they've been trying to tell us all along.
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If you're American you'll probably know Cher Lloyd from 219's monster summer smash "Want U Back," a flinty synth-pop number punctuated by a refrain of powerful grunts.
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I wouldn't have believed Hathaway could steal a scene from Mindy Kaling or Helena Bonham Carter, but the role of flinty narcissist with hidden smarts is perfect for her.
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It is what connects Murnane's flinty Catholic upbringing—which culminated in a brief flirtation with the priesthood as a young man—with the monkish, otherworldly concerns of his books.
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But the 30 centenarians facing the camera in Alex Fegan's delightful documentary "Older Than Ireland" are simply beautiful: frail, yes, but wise, wry, flinty, funny and sometimes very tender.
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By turns flinty and tender, devotional and irreverent, haunted and enraptured, Cash's poems — which date back to the 1940s — proved as multifaceted and emotionally far-reaching as the man himself.
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But younger Cuban-Americans are less conservative (though Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a 44-year-old contender for the presidency, whose parents moved from Cuba, is a flinty Republican).
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The New Vanguard There's no other sound in music precisely like Mary Halvorson's guitar, which she plays with a flinty attack, a spidery finesse and a shiver of wobbly delay.
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More than just a missed opportunity to lend flinty female heroes a female musical voice, the announcements were simply the latest examples of women being sorely unheard in film music.
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Flinty and impassioned, the movements include the wintry "Bells"; the trembling, forlorn "Ruins"; and the catlike changeability of "Fireflies," shifting in a moment from keyboard-slamming rage to delicate grace.
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On "Crave", Madonna sings over the skittering high hats and big bass of trap, smoothing the edges of this spare, flinty style of hip-hop until it becomes a wistful lullaby.
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Mr. Rzewski, who at 78 is flinty and opinionated yet warm, is one of many great American composers whom a vast majority of America has never heard, or even heard of.
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Iraqi troops, militia inch toward Mosul At newly established front lines, bulldozers carve deep trenches out of the flinty soil to deter the most feared of ISIS' weapons: large suicide truck bombs.
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His version is more localized, almost always set in the Idaho of his upbringing, where the flinty pride of the locals proves no match for the economic and personal disasters of deindustrialization.
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His tone ranged from voluptuous to flinty, and his band blended elements of the avant-garde — Julien Touéry, the pianist, has clearly heard some Don Pullen — with the strenuous side of jazz-rock.
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He, like Sharlet, takes a flinty-eyed view of the group's work, its conservative members and its professed intentions; and he says The Family has a noir-like journey into darkness and understanding.
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Still only 48, he was the future of the Republican Party once: a champion of a flinty yet compassionate conservatism admired by both rank-and-file members of Congress and deep-pocketed donors.
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Standing atop it is the flinty personage of John Dutton (Kevin Costner, in ornery-cuss mode), the owner of Yellowstone Ranch, an expanse of grass, hills and testosterone the size of Rhode Island.
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Her favorite Old Master, she told me, dating to her days in Rome, is Andrea Mantegna—the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini, who is as astringently flinty as Bellini is meltingly honeyed.
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Cameron's flinty brilliance, Donna's need to chart her own course, even the aching longing for family of bossman Bos (Toby Huss) — they were all there in season one, just a little harder to see.
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In one year as first minister the DUP's leader, Arlene Foster, has proved to be a flinty head of government who, nationalists complain, shows little flexibility in her dealings with Mr McGuinness and others.
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CONRAD TAO, APRIL 5 Performing in the crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, this fearless young pianist tore into long, flinty, pummeling works by Frederic Rzewski inspired by American protest songs.
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Okazaki's firm, flinty touch gives his guitar playing a feeling of warmth and dependability — the comfort of a heavy blanket — even when he's capering through an odd time signature or chasing down a crooked melody.
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Yet while conveying the soaring lyricism and flinty harmonic vitality of the music, these players teased out the unsettled urgency that runs through the score — even the glowing slow movement, with its fantastical middle section.
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No matter that Mr Flake is a lifelong disciple of Barry Goldwater, the flinty Arizonan prophet of economic freedom, whose own call to arms against an overweening central government was entitled "The Conscience of a Conservative".
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Hilary Swank (as J. Paul Getty III's mother and J. Paul Getty's former daughter-in-law, Gail Getty) is tough and flinty; Sutherland is a snake made of pure ice; and so on and so forth.
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LONDON — From Brussels to Berlin to Washington, leaders of the Western democratic world awoke Friday morning to a blunt, once-unthinkable rebuke delivered by the flinty citizens of a small island nation in the North Atlantic.
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The result is an energizing conceit: Darbyshire, who acknowledges responsibility for running the coup—and who calmly admits to having had Mossadegh's chief of police killed—is animated by Fiennes's flinty glamour and peerless dramatic chops.
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White Mountaineering returned with a trapper-tinged collection called Trailblazer, and Coach celebrated doughty American archetypes like Kit Carson with a succession of patched leather jackets, lumberjack shirts, bandannas and bucket hats virtually bristling with flinty resourcefulness.
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George W. Bush's "America's Top Gun," using a flinty, barstool military phrase associated with an especially popular red-blooded movie, channeled not only the Iraq War Bush had initiated but the "folksy" facet of his public image.
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The undesirable instructor duty she was given out of spite for a year in the Navy, she writes, made her confident and ready for anything; the open harassment and disdain from male peers gave her flinty resolve.
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What's worse, the veteran baritone Louis Otey's flinty voice imploded just before his climactic aria, and the love duets between the soprano Kelly Kaduce and the tenor Michael Wade Lee collapsed into a noisy battle of vibratos.
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The result is that we are immersed in the specific charisma of each speaker, from the flinty zeal of Paget Brewster to the cool swagger of Mark Gagliardi, in a way that suggests the show's unspoken theme.
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On his last album, "You Want It Darker," released less than a month ago, Mr. Cohen's voice had descended to a husky recitation, cushioned by choirs and string arrangements but as fearlessly flinty as ever, our critic writes.
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The other duo was George Walker's 1958 Sonata in One Movement, a flinty yet beguiling piece that abounds in industrious counterpoint, though these passages alternate with moments of lyrical proclamation for violin, cushioned by thick, pungent piano chords.
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Ms. Gabbard's candidacy has drawn a modest following in New Hampshire, an early voting state that prides itself on a streak of flinty independence — and, importantly, that allows independents to register to vote in the Democratic presidential primary.
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The win for Mr. Sanders amounted to a powerful and painful rejection of Hillary Clinton, who has a deep history with New Hampshire voters and offered policy ideas that seemed to reflect the flinty, moderate politics of the state.
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Queen Elizabeth's only daughter – who's known for her flinty and athletic character (and titled the Princess Royal) – was taken to the hospital on Wednesday after falling ill during the family's stay on the Balmoral estate in the Scottish Highlands.
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The program ended with the flutist Robert Langevin and Mr. Beck in a flinty account of Mr. Boulez's early Sonatine for Flute and Piano (1946), a work the composer considered his gateway piece to a period of strict Serialism.
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Canny and heavily earthbound — "of an unfeasible size" — Alison is nevertheless dragged into the harrowing shadow realm by both the memoir she dictates to her flinty assistant, Colette, and by her obscene, pungent guide to the spirit world, Morris.
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This piece, an outlier, adopts a deliberately neo-Classical, almost neo-Baroque idiom and abounds in contrasts: Lacy, lyrical passages for piano often lead to stretches of tangled, industrious counterpoint; warm, rich string sonorities segue into flinty, brassy harmonies.
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But the songs remained cryptic, dark and flinty: "I've found something no one else is looking for," Colin Newman sang in "Single K.O." All the additional material completely overrides Wire's original mandate of ruthless self-editing, but so what?
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Watching the drama of the sunlight suddenly piercing the thick gray clouds over the English Channel, creating fleeting wells of silvery light that briefly polished the flinty looking sea, I mused on how essential this town had been to Ensor's art.
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In that solo here, Mr. Trusnovec, a flinty presence gleaming in white, turned his body into an evocative vessel of contorted, sculptural shapes, whether standing in profile with oddly bent arms or crouching like an insect with his feet raised in demi-point.
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Mr. Washington plays a mysterious nomad traveling across a parched and rusty American dystopia; the cast also includes Gary Oldman, whom Manohla Dargis described as "a flinty presence that Mr. Washington can spark against" in her review for The New York Times.
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This consuming novel tracks the convergence of two Indian communities: the privileged society of bourgeois Bangalore, where Vijay's flinty young narrator, Shalini, is cosseted by her wealthy father and caustically unfiltered mother, and, far to the north, a hardscrabble Himalayan village in Kashmir.
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Carla Gugino has been living in the "She's so good; why doesn't she have a TV show?" realm for so long now that it's easy to forget the flinty actress has starred in a number of shows built around her considerable charms.
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Sporting cowboy boots beneath his robes, Judge Matsch combined a flinty wit with a short fuse, and woe to the lawyer who failed to detect the twitch in his mustache that signaled a growing impatience or an imminent blistering rebuke for wasting the court's time.
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By contrast, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, who are playing these roles in the excellent Broadway revival of Mr. Coburn's flinty comedy, still seem to be in their glowing prime, actors with long and distinguished careers behind them who nevertheless keep seeking further heights to scale.
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This conclusion might go against the grain of certain preconceptions of business success, that an effective manager must dispense with niceties, pursue a course of ruthless domination and generally take on the mindset of a flinty-eyed predator – say, a lion, or a tiger, or a bear.
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At Zankel Hall, the formidable Kirill Gerstein will play unusual works by Liszt, Brahms and Gyorgy Kurtag steeped in Hungarian dances and folk song, as well as pieces by Haydn, Busoni, Bartok (the flinty, seldom-heard Piano Sonata), Thomas Adès and, to end, Schubert's exuberant "Wanderer" Fantasy.
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Here are some surprising facts about the flinty, athletic and impressively thrifty royal mom of two (and grandmother of three!), born on August 21973, 21989 – and the only one of Elizabeth's four children to be singled out for her own portrait with the monarch mom back in April.
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Hidden in that data, Walker realized, were the precise combinations of esters and acids and proteins and anthocyanins and other polyphenols that make a wine taste creamy or flinty, or give it aromas of blueberries or vanilla or old leather—the chemical compositions of America's most popular wines.
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Pity is particularly hard to summon in this new production, which conceives the central couple as more aristocratic, in a Disney "Sleeping Beauty" way, than the rough, flinty country gentry imagined by Katie Mitchell's staging, in which the opera was first seen, captured on DVD and widely traveled.
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Maine (24 delegates) Sanders is hoping to win this New England state as well, though it has a flinty moderate streak (Maine is sometimes a general election battleground state), and it's one where Pete Buttigieg had previously looked to do well, so someone like Warren or Biden may benefit.
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Even with the bleak Swedish surroundings the film has sacrificed some of the texture that distinguished prior adventures, but compensates for that with Foy's flinty performance, in a role that -- especially contrasted with her other current showcase in "First Man" -- provides a pretty impressive demonstration of her range.
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Mr. Weschler wrote that if Mr. Irwin were to be played in a movie, James Garner circa "The Rockford Files" would be the best choice, and he indeed exudes that kind of comfortable-in-his-own-skin charm, but also a bit of the flinty resolve of Paladin, gentleman gunfighter.
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IN EUROPEAN politics a useful distinction is sometimes drawn between the "clean right", a group which can include pretty flinty conservatives, and the "dirty right", meaning those who cross the bounds of democratic decency, whether with race-baiting, threats of political violence or snarling challenges to the rule of law.
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Pineapple now has a full roster of talk-show-style podcasts, including "Stay Tuned with Preet," hosted by Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who offers flinty insights into the latest machinations of Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 13 election.
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It does help that other actors, not burdened with prequelitis, are able to give sharp performances, including Andrew Brooke as a flinty desk sergeant and Jessica Gunning as another W.P.C. In "Endeavour," Shaun Evans — a hilarious mismatch, physically and temperamentally, with John Thaw, the original Morse — plays essentially a new character.
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Techs at Integrated Beverage Group use chemical analysis to determine the precise combinations of esters and acids and proteins and anthocyanins and other polyphenols that make a wine taste creamy or flinty In 2015, Walker and Hicks started Integrated Beverage Group and set out to duplicate wines that they knew Americans already liked.
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There's Starr Saphir, the flinty matriarchal figure who led birders even as she became significantly ill with cancer, and Chris Cooper, 55, a biomedical editor who birds by ear (using birdsong to identify his quarry) and whose elegiac exposition on what he called the "7 pleasures of birding" pops up the all over the internet.
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Our students also responded well to Thomson's music, which suggests concert bands playing waltzes in parks; military marches; church organs; parlor songs; schoolyard ditties; and bursts of flinty harmonies in moments of intensity — all folded into a score in which the goal is to make Stein's often illogical, playfully poetic words come through clearly.
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Still, I had an early flight to catch the next morning, to that other early decider in the presidential sweepstakes, New Hampshire — a state that is much remarked on by the political class for its flinty local interrogators and for the pride they seem to take in negating the referendum delivered by Iowans a week earlier.
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And for the first time in recent history, insurgent candidates on both the left and the right are emerging from the caucuses with enough money to finance a strong offensive in the weeks ahead, across electoral terrain that will vary from famously flinty New Hampshire to conservative, middle-class upstate South Carolina to the post-recession suburbs of Las Vegas.
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The movie's title refers to its main characters: a gifted neurosurgeon (Zhao Wei) experiencing a crisis of professional confidence; a taciturn, flinty cop (Louis Koo), who talks himself into believing his current case justifies operating outside the law; and a smirky, glib criminal gang leader (Wallace Chung), who is reluctant to undergo an operation to remove a bullet in his skull.
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There's an unabashedness to the centrality of its women, but it also never once devolves into a bunch of scenes that amount to star, co-creator, writer, and director Natasha Lyonne taking center stage to say, "Well, as a woman..." But it's unlikely that Russian Doll's flinty femininity would be the first thing you talked about when discussing the show, or even the fourth or fifth or sixth.
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He started out shilling biscuits on early morning radio segments in Alabama, and rose to nab a spot playing at country music's Mother Church, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. Though plagued by spina bifida pains and a tumultuous love life (Elizabeth Olsen plays his flinty, power-hungry first wife, Audrey) and dangerously susceptible to pills and alcohol, ol' Hank was immensely successful, landing 33 hit country singles during his life and selling millions of records.
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Among them are Judy, née Frank (after Judy Garland, née Frances Gumm), a "sloppy, fat," masochistic trans woman who turns tricks and dreams of "feminine success, which she would have defined as lustful attention"; Judy's regular "date," a sadistic, cynical retired policeman fond of spanking, spewing insults and telling war stories; a flinty barkeep who dispenses mind-altering substances that stoke, inflame and sustain her needy patrons; and a participant-narrator who offers play-by-play commentary and discursive observations on the drama — so much drama!
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Their chops and professionalism honed to a flinty edge by near-constant touring and rehearsing, these cats were tighter than tight: By the time they splintered off from Hawkins to form Levon and the Hawks, they could do just about anything for anyone who needed session support; when Bob Dylan enlisted them to back him up during his controversial electric tour in 1966, they endured what became a nightly ritual of setting up, playing, getting viciously booed and packing up for the next gig.
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