Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackson, 41 INT return (Patton kick...
...first-and-10 from the Cornell 35, Hood rolled right and launched a five-yard pass that junior safety Aron Natale tipped up. Senior cornerback Glenn Jackson caught the loose ball and took it down the left sideline for a touchdown, giving Harvard a 16-6 lead...
...songwriters in rock. But she doesn't consider herself a folkie; she sees herself somewhere between Miles Davis and Bob Dylan--unclassifiable. She has bebopped with Charles Mingus and explored African rhythms with the warrior drums of Burundi. A record store of younger artists--Seal, Sarah McLachlan, even Janet Jackson--has acknowledged her influence. Virtually every act on the first Lilith Fair owed her a debt, if not royalties. But because she's been so groundbreaking, so musically mercurial, she has not always reaped the critical and commercial rewards she so richly deserves...
...these, you know, artists are going willingly into the slaughter." There are, however, a few things she likes. "Most of my favorite artists are black," says Mitchell, who admires James Brown, Etta James and Duke Ellington. "All modern music is black." She also has nothing but praise for Janet Jackson's song Got 'Til It's Gone, an R.-and-B. reworking of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. But she has mostly contempt for alternative rock. "Everybody says Kurt Cobain was a great writer. I don't see it," Mitchell says. "Why is he a hero? Whining and killing yourself...
...more concept albums can you handle? Such and Such plays the music of Gershwin--a lot of that is getting so tired." He points out that when it comes to pop, his generation grew up listening not to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole but to Stone and Michael Jackson; it's only natural that, having already explored the standard standards (i.e., their grandparents' pop), adventurous young musicians would now want to explore music they themselves once made...