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With her second album, Fat City, Shawn Colvin earns entry into this august group. For a start, she has a gorgeous voice that ranges from the jazz phrasing of Anita O'Day to the girlish soprano of primal folkie Carolyn Hester. Like her idol Joni Mitchell, whose husband Larry Klein produced the album, Colvin paints delicate word landscapes of analysand wonderlands. Like Carpenter, who sings backup on the anthemic Climb On (A Back That's Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring...
...tried to steer him into the ministry, but Lewis had other plans; he left home as soon as he turned 17. Settling in Sheffield, he bunked with friends and worked through the night in recording studios, listening to records and composing songs. Says Lewis, 24: "I discovered Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell and Curtis Mayfield. I just swallowed it all up." As he was writing his debut album, his mother and brother died. Skin, as Lewis titled the album, became a record of his feelings: melancholy and vulnerability. When he sings, "Is my skin just a veil I'm wearing/ Protect...
...nation's first baby-boomer President, Clinton will bring to the Oval Office a fresh mental map of generational impressions. Gone are the Andrews Sisters, Kilroy and the Berlin blockade. In their place come Father Knows Best, Elvis, 1960s folk music (Chelsea Clinton was named after the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning), Vietnam protests, the 1972 George McGovern crusade and Watergate. Despite the politically exaggerated privation of his childhood, Clinton came of age at a moment of exceptional national privilege, when a studious young leader from Hot Springs, Arkansas, could aspire to an elite educational odyssey that carried him from...
...entire point of the campaign is to make us buy Gap clothes. It only works if millions of us buy white T-shirts. And the sad fact is, Ronnie Lott and Joni Mitchell can be unique in Gap clothing because they do amazing, successful, celebrated things. But when we wear Gap clothing, we melt into the rest of the crowd that is also wearing it, because we don't stand...
...Joni Mitchell is famous, so we see her as a wonderful singer, not as a middle-aged woman in a jean jacket. When we wear our jean jackets, however, we are judged as jean-jacket wearing types, and our individuality is subsumed under our clothes...