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Randy Travis has come a long way by respecting country music's traditions. Other acts out there, though, are raising a ruckus by tangling up those roots with all sorts of other music. Six signposts for this new country mile: Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, the O'Kanes, Nanci Griffith, K.T. Oslin and Lyle Lovett...
Love is a subject much considered by Nanci Griffith, 34, who likes to call herself "just a little folkabilly songwriter," and K.T. Oslin, who surprised everyone -- herself most of all -- by winning a Grammy in March for her hit RCA single 80's Ladies. It was from her first album, and Oslin is 46. "It's dreamlike," says Oslin, a sometime actress. "I feel like I'm playing the role of a country singer. But I'd rather be starting now than ending now." Both women were brought up in Texas; however, where Oslin's writing and performing are foursquare...
...songs, delivered in a winsome, not entirely wholesome voice, have a strange after-echo that makes them kissing cousins to the work of Lyle Lovett, 30, who has sung occasional harmony with Griffith but has more in common with an unorthodox satirist like Randy Newman. "I've never been to jail, never been arrested, and I don't do drugs at all," says Lovett, with no apparent regret. "It wouldn't work for me. But I do what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle...
Navy tied the game, 8-8, on a goal by Tim O'Rourke two minutes after Kramer's goal. Harvard's Rob Griffith scored his third goal of the afternoon two minutes later to give the Crimson a 9-8 lead...
...Both gave huge games," van der Broek said. "We were beating Locasio in the second quarter. Rob Griffith took a shot that everyone thought was in, but it hit the post...