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...guitar music now known as classic rock wasn't born classic. It became classic through a combination of radio marketing--the classic-rock-station label was born in 1983--and the happy associations formed by its mostly white, middle-class boomer listeners. These associations are so culturally pervasive that hearing, say, American Woman, spurs memories of road trips, sun-baked convertibles and pull-tab Schlitz, even among people too young to drink...
...began with some cousin cuisine. Paul Gonzalez had taken his cousin Donna on a long trek through a remote part of Colombia. They had missed the day's meals and had only a jar of pickled vegetables and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. So they repaired to hammocks strung up under the moonlight--and began a love story that has lasted 14 years and produced two children...
...DiFranco released her first album independently in 1991 when she started her label Righteous Babe Records. At the time she was barely 20, although she had been writing and performing since her early teens, having reportedly written over 100 songs. Since then she has released 13 albums, selling over three million in total, and she has been nominated for four Grammy awards. The phone number to Righteous Babe Records...
Being the cleverest fellow in movies had its perks: six Oscars (out of 21 nominations), for writing, producing and directing. It also earned Wilder, from the sterner critics, the label of cynic. They said his films were long on wit and short on compassion. Pick up a rock, and Wilder's view of the human condition would crawl out from under it. Nearly 40 years ago, critic Andrew Sarris wrote, "Billy Wilder is too cynical to believe even his own cynicism." Today we can see that Wilder was less a cynic than a premature realist. An Austrian Jew who left...
Coming upon your article "Jazzed About Ms. Jones," reviewing the debut album of singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...