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...Face shows she's got a throat made from the same 18-karat gold. And although the elder Houston's new album probably won't sell as well as slicker, more contemporary-sounding gospel releases -- and it certainly won't move as many units as the typical Whitney CD -- its unabashed religiosity indicates that Houston has her sights set on a higher, very personal audience of One. "Gospel has roots in the blues, and Houston brings the music back to its source," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "All the songs on the album, from the proud, soaring 'Too Close...
...which has sold some 10 million copies worldwide since its release last November. That album was, musically speaking, kid stuff with nostalgia value--a fine addition to your fetish file, to put between the bootleg tapes and The Baroque Beatles Book. Now comes The Beatles Anthology 2, a two-CD set that dispenses with the first album's period chat and cover versions of R.-and-B. songs to concentrate on alternate takes of songs from the band's musical prime time, from 1965 to early 1968. This is not just candy for Beatlemaniacs; it's a tonic...
...take with Paul's mellotron and George's gently weeping guitar, to the slow, sliding version that (when speeded up by Martin) provided the first minute of the final single. All these takes are gorgeous but tantalizing. Let's hear the whole amazing production process--an all--Strawberry Fields CD...
...keep producing new material and fresh performances. Last week in New York City, backed by Ima, her son Sean Ono Lennon's alternative-rock trio, she appeared at the Knitting Factory, a trendy performance space that often showcases culty bands. The set, featuring songs from her latest CD, Rising, was deliberately abrasive, her wailing voice (which evoked Eastern devotional music) propelled by Ima's churning, mid-tempo guitar rock (Lennon's guitar work was blunt and unobtrusive). Ono's best moments came on Will I--a mournfully pretty spoken-word piece--and on Rising's anthemic title song...
...makes sense that her 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...