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...album's high point, however, draws from pure pop: a gospel rendition of Marvin Gaye's love song How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You). "'Cause you were better to me/ Than I was to myself/ For me there is you/ There ain't nobody else," Houston sings, as the chorus shadows her words with "I want to stop/ And thank you Jesus." On the song Houston's tart, high voice is strong and slightly rough, and the accompaniment is a warm wave of piano, organ and bass guitar. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel...
...People always say, 'I'll start writing 'as soon as'--as soon as the kids are grown, the dog dies, whatever'. I say, 'Nope, it ain't gonna happen with that attitude...
...view. For days afterward, conversations about the Tyson fight invariably segued toward the women. Christy Martin has become an overnight sensation. "We've had calls from Japan, Canada and Regis and Kathie Lee," says Jim Martin, her husband and trainer. "Playboy wants her too, but we ain't taking our clothes...
...gorgeous, pulverizing new CD is called The Trouble with the Truth (Epic Nashville). And what is the trouble? As the title song, by Gary Nicholson, tells us: "It has ruined the taste of the sweetest lies,/Burned through my best alibis." The way Loveless sings it, the truth ain't pretty, but it sounds as golden as the Gospel...
...Richard Thompson's Tear-Stained Letter, has a perky Cajun feel, with fiddles and steel guitar establishing a pace Richard Petty would find hard to match. Yet the song is about the inflicting of some pretty serious domestic abuse--"He danced on my head like Arthur Murray,/The scars ain't never gonna mend in a hurry"--by a guy who then decides he wants to be taken back...