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...formula is unchanged from Peyroux's previous albums: a few chugging, countrified originals, a French café song and the rest standards and contemporary folk-rock. But who's complaining? One might wish Peyroux would go full throttle more often, but there's no arguing with her sly, teasing rhythm on originals like I'm All Right or the aching conviction she brings to ballads like Joni Mitchell's River (a duet with k.d. lang). If this is sameness, let's have more...
...friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that section. They had told me to run background checks on any shrimpers I rode with. Sure, sure, I said. But I had already met quite a few at the docks. They were quiet folk, mostly men in their 40s who were skinny and smoked a lot. I didn’t look them up.It was a sign of good faith, the same as entering someone’s home rather than staying in the safety of their doorway with a notebook as a shield. Sometimes...
...mightn't sound exciting. But it's not as though it's distracting Taylor from a baffling abduction case. With a population of 1,800, Stratford has the lowest crime rate per capita in Wellington Shire. "The youth of this town respect the town," says Taylor, and the older folk fill Stratford's three churches on Sundays...
...seemingly sleepy hamlet-nestled in mulga scrub on an uncharacteristic hill above the Nullarbor, close to the South Australian border-Eucla has a work ethic that could put many city folk to shame. As well as an industrious roadhouse, police station, meteorological office and quarantine center, the 50-resident village is a hub for shark fishing and starling shooting (the bird is considered a pest in Western Australia). "We're either sleeping or working," says local mechanic Rodney Fowler, 60, proudly wearing his eucla spirit of the desert windcheater...
DIED. Arthur Lee, 61, psychedelic rock pioneer and leader of the 1960s Los Angeles band Love, regarded as having influenced the Rolling Stones and the Doors; of leukemia; in Memphis, Tenn. Lee never reached the fame of his contemporaries, but his 1967 album Forever Changes, which blended folk melancholy with rock verve, is one of the genre's most important albums. In May 2006, as part of his leukemia treatment, he became the first adult in Tennessee to receive a stem-cell transplant...