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...record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and, on an slow, instructional song whose title is too crude to reproduce here, the dulcet phrasings of James Taylor. The listener has not acquired an intimacy with the soul of Jack Black after several spins of "Tenacious D," but that's beside the point. Despite its lack of emotional depth, the album roars along on the fuel of Black's hammy make-believe...
Kofi Annan dominated the headlines this week, showing once again in his uniquely unassuming way why he may well be the world's best-loved and most widely respected political figure. First, the dulcet-voiced U.N. Secretary General ever-so-gently persuaded the governments of the world to commit to a global strategy to fight an AIDS pandemic that has killed 20 million people and has already selected its next 30 million victims...
DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, dulcet-voiced cowgirl, devoted humanitarian, author of more than 20 books and widow of Roy ("King of the Cowboys") Rogers; in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans' boss caught her singing while she worked--as a stenographer at a Dallas insurance company--and prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus...
...music but are readily apparent in performance as well. Driven by a love of their music and the adrenaline of performance, Gomez turned the overflowing Middle East crowd into a Gomez audience. Whether it was the dynamism of the carefree and occasionally ironic tune "Get Myself Arrested" or the dulcet gruffness of Ottewell's voice on "Free To Run," the audience rejoiced in the reinvention of their favorite Gomez melodies. For Gomez, nothing is immutable; every song is subject to new forms of expression and interpretation...
...music but are readily apparent in performance as well. Driven by a love of their music and the adrenaline of performance, Gomez turned the overflowing Middle East crowd into a Gomez audience. Whether it was the dynamism of the carefree and occasionally ironic tune "Get Myself Arrested" or the dulcet gruffness of Ottewell's voice on "Free To Run," the audience rejoiced in the reinvention of their favorite Gomez melodies. For Gomez, nothing is immutable; every song is subject to new forms of expression and interpretation...