Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hour Mess Age isn't Public Enemy's best CD, but it is lyrically provocative and musically rich. The songs are relentless, pummeling, chaotic -- something like a house party crossed with a race riot. As lead rapper Chuck D told Time: "We wanted to borrow from soul, blues, gospel and rock 'n' roll elements and blend them into something we can call our own. And make it faster...
Professors have become adept at blending objective and subjective statements until students can't tell which is which. At Harvard, where respect for professors becomes transformed into a kind of hero worship, students eagerly accept professorial pronouncements as the new Gospel...
...bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal workout. Water Runs Dry, with its plaintive singing backed by a spare acoustic guitar, creates a mood of sublime melancholy. An a cappella cover of the Beatles' Yesterday is movingly inflected with gospel-inspired harmonies...
Bett's son Duane, also a guitar player, joined the band for "Soulshine," a soulful gospel-inspired number from the new album and for "Same Thing," a blues standard. Later on it set, the band was joined by Sheryl Crow for "Midnight Rider" and by John Popper on "One Way Out." The set's closer, "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and the encore, "Whipping Post," didn't quite reach the heights that they are sometimes capable of reaching, perhaps because of what lay ahead for the band...
...community in the country needs help more -- and Lake Providence has turned to God and Washington for assistance. One Sunday evening not long ago, 400 of the town's 5,500 people gathered for a gospel concert. "Weeping may endure for the night! But if you hold on, joy -- joy! -- is coming in the morning!" shouted one singer, paraphrasing the 30th Psalm. The crowd broke down in tears and fervent amens. This summer the town, joined by two almost equally destitute communities in neighboring Mississippi and Arkansas, submitted its application to have the area declared a federal "empowerment zone...