Word: lyrical
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...Stars If you don’t know who Audra McDonald is, but appreciate vocal music, now’s the time to find out. The angelic lyric soprano has just released her fourth and most accessible solo album, “Build a Bridge,” filling it with covers of songs by mainstream pop songwriters like Bacharach, Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Randy Newman, and John Mayer...
...students entered the lottery for the $10 tickets to Saturday’s jam session, only about 250 lucked out. The intimate, “Unplugged”-like venue, however, guaranteed great views for all and provided fodder for a few jokes. When guitarist Ed Robertson requested a lyric sheet for a new song, he joked, “By no means should you do this in an exam.” Learning From Performers Program Manager Thomas Lee credited the group’s “world view,” “articulation about what...
...Since then, their new releases have been called amiable, mellow, low-key, good, and bad, but never fun. Despite the confrontational name, “I Am Not Afraid…” finds the group at the epitome of NPR-rock: every note and lyric has been expertly engineered to ensure that the listener’s pulse rate stays perfectly constant. Containing neither the experimental miscues of “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out” nor the full-on snoozers of “Summer Sun,” every track here would...
...Angeles. He was born Aaron Chwatt, but some patrons at an early gig renamed him for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform. Buttons became a sudden star in 1952 with his CBS variety show, on which he danced goofily to a trademark lyric, "Hoho-hehe-haha. Strange things are happening!" That became a national catchphrase, but his show was soon dropped. He rebounded in 1957 with the film Sayonara, playing a U.S. airman in an ill-fated romance with a Japanese woman--for which he won an Oscar. "I'm a little guy," he once said...
...Zimmerman bus tour of Hibbing. Instead, play those early songs again. You'll shiver at their stark profundity - at the way words, simple chords and a stray mutt's voice could combine to form an immediate and lasting legacy of pop poetry. Dylan was destined, as the beautiful lyric to "Mr. Tambourine Man" has it, "to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free." In following that fate, he taught the rest of us to dance with...