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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...underlying messages. The minor characters are superb, including the idiosyncratic corporate executive Phil (Alec Baldwin), Drew’s grieving mother (Susan Sarandon), and his cousin Jesse (Paul Schneider), whose proudest moment was almost being the opening act on the side stage of a music festival that featured Lynyrd Skynyrd.Crowe’s films have always demonstrated an obsession with rock music (not surprisingly, “Elizabethtown”’s soundtrack is spectacular), but here he finds beauty in the raw passion and energy of the music. The lovers’ most enduring moment, coming...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elizabethtown | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album for Loretta Lynn, and the best song currently making its way around the Internet is Sweet Home Country Grammar, a mash-up of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly's Country Grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Troy | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...menacing as a guy and a gun. Mei-Lwun Sweet Home Country Grammar Mash-ups - the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another - no longer sound so revolutionary as they did when they first conquered the Internet, but the unlikely pairing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's riff and Nelly's spliffs improves both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Songs Worth Three Minutes | 5/19/2005 | See Source »

Mash-ups--the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another--no longer sound so revolutionary as they did when they first conquered the Internet, but the unlikely pairing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's riff and Nelly's spliffs improves both. --By Josh Tyrangiel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 10 Songs Worth at Least 99 Cents | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...mass marketers love hip. It makes everything from trucker caps to old Lynyrd Skynyrd albums more salable. Long after his death, even Kerouac found himself trapped in an ad campaign for the Gap. This is the same writer who once told his journal, "I am he who has adopted the Sorrows ... The Serious, the Severe, the Stubborn, the Unappeased." You wouldn't think he was a man who in life would be selling khakis. No problem. All they had to do was wait until he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hip's History | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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