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...chewing slide guitar on “A Treasure @ Silver Bank”) and the indie sound that made him famous. Stairs has a voice that is half American Damon Albarn and half John Frusciante—often lazy, never overbearing, which means that his voice becomes just another instrument. The lyrics are either so nonsensical or sufficiently obscure that it’s tricky to tell the difference between the two: “Driving the whalebones home / 18 hours ago / Lots of water in tow.” But it is difficult not to fall for lines like...
...will direct every resource at our command—every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war—to the disruption and defeat of the global terror network,” he said...
...will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network...
...recordings and in concert, her low, tremulous instrument is backed by a band consisting of a 12-string Portuguese guitar and a Spanish guitar, the traditional fado instruments, and a bass guitar. The 12-string guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is Branco's husband as well as her chief collaborator in songwriting. She presents him with a poem she likes, usually Portuguese, and the two of them craft it into song...
...VOICE By July of 1938, Welles was already a radio veteran, and a kind of star. His supple, authoritative baritone virtually destined him to some higher form of public speaking. "With a vocal instrument of abnormal resonance and flexibility," writes Houseman in his autobiography "Run-Through," which is largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop...