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...stars, of course, have always drawn from the blues. Last year MCA released a terrific CD of blues songs titled Blues recorded between 1966 and 1970 by guitar genius Jimi Hendrix. Today's young, fringier musicians are remaking the blues yet again. Its attraction is not hard to understand: rock is good for rage, lust and protest, but for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. One of the last songs Kurt Cobain recorded before he committed suicide was Lead Belly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night...
...people know that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was also a composer of some accomplishment, and two new CDs should introduce his music to a wider audience. One CD consists of 16 works for the piano, while the other disc contains 16 songs set to poems by Nietzsche, R?ckert, Pushkin and others. Most of the pieces on both CD's were composed in Nietzsche's youth, between 1861 1864. The piano works show a definite lack of formal training but a "true melodic gift," says TIME reviewer Elliott Ravetz, and the songs are "genuinely affecting...
...whileI performed. After the show she came up to me andtold me how much she liked the show." As it turnedout, that woman was Sarah Hickman, a well-knownmusician on the Country-Western circuit and formermember of the Dixie Chicks. Coats was surprised;"I have a few of her CD's, but I didn't recognizeher at first." Although receiving compliments onthe street is stimulating and rewarding, Coatsadmits that it is difficult to keep a professionaldistance, making a performer more vulnerable whenon the street...
...trekked over to his audio compact disc player, but raised his hand, preventing me from explaining to him that CDROM's couldn't be played on your average Sony shelf system. He reached for a compilation CD of all the James Bond movies and queued the CD to repeatedly play the introductory Bond theme. He then dashed around the room--in a frenzy I haven't seen since the OS/2 Presentation Manager days--making sure to hit the power switch on his computer before he got too tired...
...Stevie's back. And his new CD is a fairly sturdy one, even if the notorious procrastinator and perfectionist took four years to complete it. Wonder says his next release will be a gospel album. Here's hoping it doesn't take as long; even Michael Jordan stayed away for only 18 months...