Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tigre. Some food is still reaching the estimated 2 million to 3 million victims of northern Ethiopia's latest famine, but no one knows how many have died, casualties as much of politics as of malnutrition. Photographer Anthony Suau traveled through Afabet and the EPLF field bases, assembling an album of stark images that illustrate the everyday realities of a murderous...
...Earle seems occasionally to be dedicating himself to Faron Young's country credo: "Live fast, love hard and die young." A fracas with a trouble-oriented Dallas cop last New Year's Eve will bring him to trial on an assault charge July 25, after finishing his new UNI album, Copperhead Road. He could be referring to both his legal exploits and his musical experiments when he predicts, "It's safe to say I'll never get on the Grand Ole Opry now." Copperhead Road mixes pertinent politics and a heavy beat and makes no apologies for either. Says Earle...
Love is a subject much considered by Nanci Griffith, 34, who likes to call herself "just a little folkabilly songwriter," and K.T. Oslin, who surprised everyone -- herself most of all -- by winning a Grammy in March for her hit RCA single 80's Ladies. It was from her first album, and Oslin is 46. "It's dreamlike," says Oslin, a sometime actress. "I feel like I'm playing the role of a country singer. But I'd rather be starting now than ending now." Both women were brought up in Texas; however, where Oslin's writing and performing are foursquare...
Once all the records sold and hits charted and awards won are totted up, the slickest wheels on the road would belong to Randy Travis, 29, whose first album, Storms of Life, sold 2 million copies, whose second, Always and Forever, sold 3 million.. Travis' major career worry for the past year would appear to be that his new album, called Old 8x10 and just now in stores, might dislodge Always from the top of the country charts, where it has perched for almost a year. One million copies of Old 8x10 have already been ordered up by retail...
...Warner Bros. Records exec tuned in on what Hatcher had been hearing for a decade and signed Travis to a singles contract. His first shot was the lilting On the Other Hand, which flopped at first, but his second, 1982, made the Top Ten. Warner signed Travis for an album, which became the 2 million- selling Storms of Life, and On the Other Hand, re-released, went to No. 1. All of a sudden, Travis was on the fast track, with the pedal to the metal. Would a chorus of I Told You So sound too much like gloating...