Word: instrumentality
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...performances from over the years featuring Bush and a cast of equally gifted guest performers. Among the most notable of these are newgrass veterans Jerry Douglas on dobro (who gets a great ride on "Girl from the North Country") and especially banjoist Bela Fleck, whose inspired playing puts the instrument through paces that Earl Scruggs could hardly have imagined...
...Although the guitar has long been the emblem of folk music, few of its early practitioners actually exploited the instrument beyond strumming chords in accompaniment. But among the few who did, Doc Watson stands as a monument of inventiveness and virtuosity. Now 77, Watson was the first to adapt the fiddle tunes at the core of the bluegrass idiom to the guitar, taking the instrument out of the background and putting it front and center, often solo, with a sparkling, rigorously precise flatpicking technique that is as fiendishly difficult as it is exciting - all the more remarkable for the fact...
This tendency has its penalties, as you may imagine. In the sixth grade, our teacher, having momentarily forced me to rejoin the class, asked anyone who had a musical instrument to bring it in and play it. As it happened, my aunt had bought me a guitar the day before, and though I had never played the guitar, I thought I'd do a few numbers. The next day I sat before my classmates, whose rising laughter nearly drowned out my one-chord rendition of Red River Valley. I just assumed that if I sat up there with my guitar...
...question music fans everywhere are asking these days: What you got? We're going to let you in on a little secret--and we're going to say this as nicely as possible--not all of today's hottest teen-pop stars are blessed with powerful vocal instruments. But that's not what many fans are looking for. In the '00s, they want to see their favorite performers get down, back that thing up, shake their bonbons, dance. "I want to be an all-around entertainer," says teen singer Christina Aguilera, who is actually blessed with a powerful vocal instrument...
That's Wyclef: you can't pin him down, not to one instrument, not to one style, not even to one country. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. He's a rapper and a singer, an entertainer with an ear to the streets and an eye on the top of the charts. He has written and produced hits for Santana and Whitney Houston and has also worked with Destiny's Child and Sinead O'Connor. "He's like a chameleon," says Melky Jean, Wyclef's sister and frequent supporting vocalist...