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...features and bossa-nova ballads into a boffo LP. Anita Baker poured the ache of jazz into pop and sold a couple million copies of Rapture. All over the dial, female singers are anchoring distinctive personalities to the sound of soul on silk. But none have hit the plangent chord struck by John and Cissy Houston's little girl...
...FALL of 1937, Wolfe met Ella Winter, a political activist and the widow of Lincoln Steffens. As Wolfe spoke of his hometown, Winter asked, "Don't you know you can't go home again?" Her question struck a chord in Wolfe's dilemma. Wolfe had hoped to be the Great American Novelist, "reminding his readers of the promise of American life, of the greatness that could still lie ahead for a nation begun with an ideal of a free man's life,...fulfilling its whole purpose in an atmosphere of free and spacious enlightenment." The promise felt, the goal defined...
...movement, 80-minute showpiece for large orchestra, elemental in its power, yet seductive in its radiant beauty. The title derives from Sanskrit and roughly connotes "vitality" and "life," and thus gives some indication of both the piece's formidable substance and its stunning effect. Its thundering chord progressions and leaping, birdlike themes, its mixture of brutal dissonance and sunny consonance, make Turangalila-Symphonie one of the French composer's finest creations. It is difficult for both performer and listener, which may be why it is rarely played in concert. It does, however, offer a splendid workout for a CD player...
Although this Louisville quintet has existed since 1982 and released an eponymous debut in 1985, it is on skag heaven that Squirrelbait make their best claim to sovereignty. Basically, this disk features four-chord power rock played with an abandon utterly lacking in most AOR music. It doesn't matter what material Squirrelbait chooses--from an original composition sensitively entitled "Black Light Poster Child" to a cover of Phil Ochs' "Road Tape From California"-- every song on skag comes out rough and tumble...
That macho slogan is the centerpiece of an imaginative, aggressive campaign to convince litterbugs that it is anti-Texan to trash. Aimed at "deliberate" litterers, 18-to-34-year-old men who are unmoved by threats or appeals to civic duty, the "Don't Mess" theme has struck a chord with Texans' sense of defiant pride during tough times. Celebrities such as Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds rock group have appeared in radio and TV spots, and the slogan is being proclaimed on bumper stickers, T shirts and even beer-can holders. Best of all, the campaign...