the definition of 'balls': standing on a crowded path train, with african americans standing in front of you and to the side of you, reading the sleevenotes to emmitt miller's minstrel man from georgia, as this cover reminds us all, with its shoe-polished face and mocking grin, of a more embarrassing chapter in amrican history. obviously this gentleman -- old enough to know better, well-off enough not to care -- couldn't wait to get it home.