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...song Hall of Fame, from his forthcoming album Gravitational Forces, Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen croons, "My songs don't belong on Top 40 radio/I'll keep the old back 40 for my home." The lyrics could easily serve as the slogan of Lost Highway, a new record label that features singer-songwriters like Keen, Lucinda Williams and newcomer Ryan Adams--performers who are too cool for country radio, too country for pop and too headstrong to change their ways. The critically acclaimed Williams, whose new CD, Essence, comes out on Lost Highway this week, calls the label...
Lost Highway, which was launched by Universal Music earlier this year, wants to reconnect country to its roots. Luke Lewis, the president and founder of the label, says today's country music has siphoned off the "twang and pain" that made the genre meaningful and distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted...
...label specializes in alternative country or Americana--music with a sense of tradition and a neoteric edge (on Essence, Williams sings "shoot your love into my vein"). Lewis doesn't like such format names, but it fits. "A lot of kids feel that a lot of contemporary music is a bit too polished," he says. "Just as there's a growing affinity for roots-oriented rap, I think there's a growing audience for roots-oriented country that's stripped down and not overproduced." He cites as proof the commercial success of the million-selling, bluegrass-infused O Brother Where...
...Harvard senior is assaulted by two men described as skinheads outside of St. Paul's Church on Arrow Street. The police label this a potential hate crime. This is the second square attack in three days that could have racial or ethnic elements...
...Johns Hopkins administration agreed that all direct and subcontracted employees would not earn less than $7.75 per hour by 2002. While the figure was close to Baltimore? then-living wage, the University administration chose not to adopt the mandatory wage floor Baltimore city officials had defined, nor did they label their figure a ?iving wage.??his was not related to any broader city-wide ordinance or movement,?says Dennis OShea, executive director of communications and public affairs. ?e chose not to tie ourselves to a moving target. It would be irresponsible for the university to tie its fiscal well-being...