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Nanci Griffith, prom princess of the country-folk school, dares to suggest that life is something we can get through--and get through more easily with a rousing or sweet-souled tune. Griffith, 42, might be doomed to good humor, with her chipmunk-cute face and perky soprano. In her new CD, Blue Roses from the Moons, she aims for direct emotion and musical simplicity. The bass-heavy Wall of Sound from her 1994 Flyer has crumbled; this is a live-in-the-studio set with a country feel and, among the sidemen, songwriter Sonny Curtis and the three survivors...
...then, who wants to hike past a sign saying YOU ARE ENTERING CHIPMUNK COUNTRY? In South Africa people pay to get lowered into the brine in a shark cage, just for the thrill of cringing as the great whites go leering by. Maybe it's character building to be reminded that we aren't the only predators on the planet, that we're pretty puny ones, in fact, compared with those that do their meat-processing without the aid of metal implements. Maybe, if there were no bears to cull the human population, the wilderness would be overrun by AARP...
...lost enamel on my teeth. My fingers were raw all the time," she says. "My eyes were bloody, you lose definition of the chin, you get chipmunk cheeks. I had terrible stomach problems...
Here is this unlikely new country superstar, with his acetylene eyes and chipmunk cheeks, stalking the concert stage, acting up, acting crazy, climbing the rigging and blitzing the crowd with bravura. He's part Jolson and part Jagger, pulling stunts that smack more of the Fillmore than the Opry, and the audience hollers for him, feasts on him, lets itself go nuts with him. Nicely nuts. Mannerly nuts. Country nuts...
...Doberman pinschers sitting perfectly still in the softly humming chamber. The dogs are bathed in a mysterious yellow light and surrounded by a Noah's ark menagerie of other perfectly serene-looking pets, all of which would probably be at one another's throats if still alive. A chipmunk, its tiny paws held out as if to receive a nut, is standing in front of a cat, which in turn is crouched beside one of the Dobermans. Farther back in the chamber the second Doberman is surrounded by some small dogs and dozens of cats, cockatiels, cockatoos, snakes and lizards...