Word: americana
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...label, however, meets with his wholehearted approval. Veteran bassist Charlie Haden, a longtime admirer and sometime collaborator (Rejoicing, Beyond the Missouri Sky), calls Metheny's music "contemporary impressionistic Americana." Asked to comment, the guitarist breaks out in a smile as wide as the Great Plains. "I like that one," he says. "I'll buy that...
...here (who can really shoot, incidentally) has printed "Pax Americana" on the back of his helmet. It's at once a noble and cynical thought, if you know how the Romans did it - by stamping out the little fires, and viciously. It can work if you need to rationalize what we're being trained to do, but of course we're not supposed to need that. The Army is a tool, just like the rifle, and it's the excellence, the honor, the individual braveries of combat that are supposed to drive us. Whether they occur at Normandy...