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By Joe KleinJune 30, 2016 8:15 AM EDTThe national treasure that is American folk and country music came over on boats from the British Isles in the 17th century, especially the Scots-Irish borderlands. It traveled down the Appalachianvia fiddle, banjo and guitarin ballads and hymns, the words changing into new songs but the music immutable.It was the first music that the great American songwriter Woody Guthrie ever heard: his mother singing classic Anglo-Celtic ballads in a high-nasal country twang at their home outside Okemah, Okla. His favorite was a sad song called 82 stanley cup 20;A Picture From Life Other Side. I didn ;t know that! Del McCoury, the legendary bluegrass performer, told me recently. I love that song.M stanley cup cCoury, who is 77, learned his music, those same traditional chur stanley cup ch and folk songs, from his mother tooin York County, Pennsylvania, at the northern tip of Appalachia. He also sings in a high-nasal country twang, and has been playing in a band with his two sons Ronnie and Robert for 30 years.A few years ago, the McCoury band played the Newport Folk Festival, and after its set, Del was approached by a woman with wild gray hair who introduced herself as Nora Guthrie, Woody daughter. I think, she told Del, if my dad had a band, it would sound like you. McCoury had heard the name Woody Guthriehad even sung some of his songs, like So Long, It Been Goo Qhti 4 Killed, 6 Injured in Targeted Shooting at Backyard Party in California. Here s What to Know
By Mariah Espada and Nik PopliMarch 16, 2023 3:03 PM EDTThe contentious debate over TikTokrsquo future reached a new peak on Wednesday after the Biden Administration threatened a nationwide ban on the popular video-sharing app unless its Chinese owner promised to sell its stake in the company, TikTok confirmed to TIME. The recent divestiture demand was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The apparent ult hoka imatum by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. CFIUS marks a major escalation by White House officials in the long-running negotiations between the companyrsquo Beijing-headquartered owner ByteDance and federal officials who say that TikTokrsquo link to China poses a potential national security threat.Why does the U.S. want to ban TikTok Since its launch in 2016, the app has grown in popularity to over 1 billion active users, including more than 100 million in the U.S. But its growth comes with concerns from federal officials and security experts that China Communist Party CCP could have unlimited access to sensitive data the company collects on Americans. As a Chinese company, ByteDance is adidas samba subject to a national security law that requires it to turn over data to Chinese authorities on request.The biggest issue is that users are lar yeezy gely unaware of the true risks of foreign governments using their user data, says Anton Dahbura, executive director of Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. People would b