Word: envoi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essay seemed to reinforce a widespread feeling that civic life in America just wasn't what it used it to be. The nation's diminishing social capital was lamented far and wide, from Bill Clinton's bully pulpit to angry sermons by Bill Bennett to Bill Bradley's eloquent envoi to the Senate...
...associates, remembering on the title track, for example, a friend who died too soon. In the second verse of Western Hero, Young sounds as if he had been touched by the D-day memorials just past, but instead of summoning old shades once again, his lyric constructs a taut envoi to American idealism...
...early and particularly personal hit that evokes the memory of Sinatra's first wife, into a singular valentine to first love. Working his way up to One for My Baby, Bennett takes a big chance with a brash, almost R.-and- B. tempo. Sinatra's definitive version was an envoi to a lost love and a derailed life; Bennett's is a swagger, a roguish kiss...
Great, go-for-the-gut roadhouse rock, Jersey-shore style. An envoi for the glory days: sentimental, hard-edged and clear-eyed. When Little Steven (who produced and wrote much of this album) and Bruce Springsteen get together with Southside on It's Been a Long Time, the result is one of rock's greatest tributes to the bounds and bonds of friendship...
Great, go-for-the-gut roadhouse rock, Jersey-shore style. An envoi for the glory days: sentimental, hard-edged and clear-eyed. When Little Steven (who produced and wrote much of this album) and Bruce Springsteen get together with Southside on It's Been a Long Time, the result is one of rock's greatest tributes to the bounds and bonds of friendship...