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...King of Rock, Soul and Restraint UNMISSABLE In 2001 Solomon Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Mary J. Blige. Imagine Al Pacino receiving an Oscar from Juliette Lewis, and you have some idea of the moment's hoo-ah! scenery-chewing potential. Burke, known to the soul-music cult as the King of Rock and Soul, once held every note as if it were his last, and on his mid-career albums you might have believed it to be yours too. At 65, he has lost a little breath but gained restraint, and Nashville...
...million Number of American Idol fans who voted after last week's performances; Georgia's Paris Bennett, 17, was booted after singing Prince's Kiss and Mary J. Blige's Be Without...
...your health.” Bemoaning the trials of blocking, he raps that “alliances are lined up/hard makin’ your mind up/who you goin’ to give the next three years of your life up.” “Mary J. Blige couldn’t handle all the drama we done,” he swears...
...U2/Mary J. Blige Performance The old pros opened with Vertigo, a showcase for The Edge?s amazingly clean guitar playing. Then Mary J. Blige stalked onto the stage looking, as always, as if someone just stole her car. Bono wisely backed away and let Mary go on about her enduring campaign of melody obliteration. She didn?t sing a single note that was originally in One, but her gospel take on the ol? chestnut (first performed on the telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims) was still moving...
...unlistenable as “Struggle”; at times Kweli’s ’97-’98 brilliance shines through. Talib is recuperating here, showing his audience that his career is not restricted to hip-hop-lite collaborations with Mary J. Blige (instead bringing in underground heavyweights MF Doom and Jean Grae for this album), and that he can still spit like no other.The album’s mixtape aesthetic and lack of a radio single means one of two things. Either Kweli is trying to return to his days of underground credibility, and doesn?...