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...Sixties at the same time. She had started listening to the Beatles at my urging, and then had turned to music that was more “hard core” to us: Janis Joplin, The Velvet Underground and Dylan. Although she too had found Dylan through a female crooner (hers was Joan Baez), she wouldn’t accept my rejection of Bob’s voice. “After a while,” she said, “it feels like an old friend.” She made me a tape and I listened harder...
...Farewell to Boston” gala, Paula Kelley is going off in style before she heads to Los Angeles to record her next album. This pop orchestra crooner is a sure hit for the romantic at heart. Garvy J, The Rudds and Vitamin-D open. Tickets $8. 9 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge...
Fans of the Man in Black know he was also a man of faith: JOHNNY CASH recorded gospel tunes and hung out with the Rev. Billy Graham. But a new book reveals that the country crooner was even more devout than his public knew. Cash was ordained a minister in 1977, according to The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner, due next month. Disenchanted with organized churches, Cash, pictured here being baptized in the river Jordan in 1979, studied theology so that he could conduct services, weddings and baptisms for friends. In the book, a professor who graded Cash...
DIED. ISIDRO (EL INDIO) LOPEZ, 75, saxophonist and crooner considered to be the father of Tejano music; of complications from a stroke and brain aneurysm; in Corpus Christi, Texas. The native Texan, who was half Apache (hence "El Indio"), formed the Isidro Lopez Orchestra in 1956, combining a Big Band sound with accordion-laced Mexican-style polka called conjunto. Also nicknamed "the Mexican Elvis," he wrote more than 500 songs, including rock tunes such as Mala Cara and Macho Rock 'n' Roll...
...support in order to retain the happiness that he has found." She says she has known him for more than 30 years and, after a long correspondence and several visits, settled down with him in 2000. Their life together has been quiet, she tells Time: they listen to 1950s crooner Jackie Wilson, discuss chess techniques, and eat in most nights. "Our life is ordinary," she says, adding that Fischer is well-suited to Japan. "He doesn't like taking medications or going to doctors. He'd prefer to heal in an onsen. He's very naturally minded...