were the Saturday night get-up of many a rockabilly Rigoletto, which is Tom Waits's phrase for Roy Orbison, before they became the official uniform of Johnny Cash, the Man in Black. Black looks, black hearts, black circles around your eyes when you've been up all night with a sick child who's not getting better or because you lipped off to some squirt who turned out to be meaner and quicker than you were: black is the color that dominates the country palette.
from David Kirby: The New York Times: New Hampshire Hoedown
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