Word: connorism
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...Virgil Ware's death went largely unnoticed then and is hardly recalled today. And so it is with the stories of hundreds of other bystanders swept into civil rights traumas. Their tales don't involve the main characters of the day--villains like Connor or martyrs like King. But what these incidental players did and suffered--and how those actions may have changed them--is just as important a legacy of the movement as the key historic turning points studied in schools today...
...found Sims at his home in suburban Forestdale. Sobbing, he confessed in front of his parents. Jordan, now 74 and retired, says Farley fumed, as if he considered Sims and the detectives traitors. But Jordan says he was unmoved. He had felt "demeaned--you know, having to obey Bull Connor, jailing up black children in cages. The civil rights movement was changing the way we thought about things...
Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental--a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinead O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths...
...Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinead O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip...
...second disc of She Who Dwells ... features a pristinely recorded live show that has all the O'Connor hits, including a gorgeous string arrangement of Nothing Compares 2 U. But it's the first disc--full of unreleased tracks, covers and a few new songs--that's the revelation. O'Connor has never sounded like a little girl, but she manages innocence on Love Hurts, while her version of the Abba powder puff Chiquitita raises the song to something approaching beauty. O'Connor has said that She Who Dwells ... will be her last album, but then O'Connor says...