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...softening of country music. "What you hear on the radio is pretty sappy," he says. "It's pop with a Southern accent." Margo Timmins, 27, sings slow and deliberate. The other Cowboy Junkies play the same way. After a while, they can sound as if they're working a gig at the funeral for the sweetheart of the rodeo. This is a band grounded in silence ("The lack of sound is as compelling as sound"), suggestion and indirection. Such stylistic focus -- or, occasionally, obstinacy -- seems as if it might be limiting a record or two from now, but the band...
...resonance for him. "You find a word, but you don't stop," he explains. "You're constantly looking for alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...
...been singing tenor in the Omaha Central Statesmen Chorus for 14 years. But like most of the 6,500 barbershoppers here, he will admit, he isn't quite competition caliber. The bystanders applaud, and Welliver hustles off, tightly clutching for posterity the two-minute videotape of his gig. "This," he confides, "is something you dream about all your life...
...Charles Blanket, a New York City sound engineer. Commander Cody, a rock musician in the San Francisco Bay area, suffers from tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. So does Lenny Kaye, a journeyman guitarist who played with the Patti Smith Group. Singer and Bassist Kathy Peck, who had a gig in 1980 at a San Francisco nightspot called the Deaf Club, where deaf patrons danced to the music's vibrations, has lost 40% of the hearing in her right ear and wears a hearing...
...Travis allows. "Even if you're not very smart, you can learn a lot." He has plenty to show for his efforts, like a new $500,000 whirlpool-equipped tour bus, which replaced the converted bread truck and delivery van that used to freight the musicians from gig to gig. He can also take off-road consolation in the property he just bought in Cheatham County, 20 miles out of Nashville, where he and Hatcher share a renovated century-old log cabin...