Word: ballads
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...doubt, to broaden his audience--and on his new album, Don't Look Back, he's chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker's classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad The Healing Game (Morrison also produced the album...
...fond of using collaborators to enliven his music, and on his new album he?s chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker?s classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad 'The Healing Game.' '"Don?t Look Back' is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain?t No Big Thing tend to drag," Farley says. "But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps...
...Senator, a legislator who, as he puts it, "likes to work and get things done around here." Besides, he's busy nurturing a late-blooming secondary career writing lyrics to spiritual and patriotic songs. His first compact disc of 13 religious songs is due out next month. In a ballad dedicated to his wife and put to country music, Hatch wrote, "I've gotten everything I wanted, everything I've been hoping for." That's a claim Hatch's opponents hope doesn't stay true for long...
...pushing 40, and his struggle against his homosexuality was unraveling both his marriage and his academic post in a religious school. An attempt to reverse his musical fortunes on Broadway had come to naught. Then, in 1970, Applewhite got a break: lead baritone in the American opera The Ballad of Baby Doe. Detractors whispered that his voice was "not of national caliber," that he was "not musically a ball of fire." This was an opportunity for him to prove them wrong...
Toward the end of the program, Kerry and Weld joined arms and belted out a self-deprecating ballad...