Word: goins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stardom -- are you gettin' where I'm goin', folks? -- stardom is Bill Murray...
...kept his hope alive when he wanted to quit Nashville for a while, look for a regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin' in, or we're goin' home for good." They dug in, and six months later Brooks signed with Capitol Records. "I am so thankful to God and Sandy," Brooks says. "It turned out real well...
Most of the songs do not distinguish themselves from the driving, beat-muddled lyric style of too many of today's dance songs. Cuts like "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" and "What's Goin' On" would be appreciated at a smoke-filled club where all the songs blend together. It's ironic that during "What's Goin' On," DOS raps, "Definition of Sound treating music different...
...changes in his hometown since he went north, played with Louis Armstrong and toured with the Cab Calloway orchestra. But the fundamentals don't budge. "New Orleans people are unique," he says, sitting in his shirt-sleeves on the front porch of his white shotgun house. "Somebody goin' to jail? Give him a party. Somebody died? Give him a party. They'd throw a party for a dog's birthday. Here you have a million people raised with a habit to celebrate...
...woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...