Word: duetting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bolon, an African lute called the n'goni and, on two tracks, the strings of San Francisco's acclaimed Kronos Quartet. But the songs are really designed to showcase the range of moods and colors in Traoré's own voice. On Mariama, a stirring call-and-response duet with veteran Ousmane Sacko, she provides the velvety counterpoint to his rough edges. On Manian, a searching song about poverty in which she asks, "What have I done to deserve such a life/ Who have I offended in heaven?", she begins with a matter-of-fact resignation familiar to anyone...
...Naughty Cherubs.” In her original screenplay, a “Devil Woman” shoots poisoned darts at cherubs in heaven. Said cherubs begin telling dirty jokes and God must spank them to restore their innocence. God and the Devil Woman also sing a duet, culminating in another spanking scene. “HBO thought it would be too offensive because of the God element,” Bezreh says...
...patiently, urgently, in the next room, as if it were comforting--especially for a man who had wrestled his demons to a draw and learned to walk the line--to think of death not as a psycho killer but as a kindly escort. In September When It Comes, a duet recorded this year with his daughter Rosanne, Cash speak-sings this poignant prophecy: "They will fly me, like an angel,/To a place where I can rest/When this begins, I'll let you know,/September when it comes...
...believe, the Man in Black is now garbed in white, and the doting husband has eternity to spend with his beloved. In a song she composed on the day of Cash's death, country singer Shelby Lynne imagines a sweet reconciliation--the next act of a beautiful duet on a new stage...
With just one song, Respect, Franklin introduced feminism to popular music, but she has also sung about lesser things convincingly--like riding on a freeway of love in a pink Cadillac and being drawn through destiny to duet partner George Michael. She can basically do anything, and So Damn Happy, Franklin's first album in five years, proves the point again. So Damn Happy doesn't have a single great song, and it doesn't matter...