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...always be a country singer because I talk like this," he says in a striking Panhandle rasp. "What I'm doing is country and rock, and I don't think they are mutually exclusive terms." It is no easy matter to convince everyone, though. Guitar Town, his seminal 1986 MCA album, was full of great tunes -- Springsteen on a two-lane blacktop -- and should have settled all conflicts of style. But, he reports, "I'm at war with the record company on the West Coast about using steel guitar and mandolin, and I'm at war with Nashville over drums...
...delicate but deliberate. She started writing in grade school, she says, "mainly out of self-defense, 'cause I was so lousy at guitar." She admires the work of such fiction writers as Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, and in tunes like Love Wore a Halo (on her strong- selling MCA album Little Love Affairs), Griffith can be heard trying to chase that same magnolia-and-nightshade muse to ground...
...what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle eyes are set into the lean, long-jawed face of a back- alley shiv artist, acts straight but makes intrepid music. Listen to the recent Pontiac (MCA), and you can really hear him cut loose in tunes like If I Had a Boat: "The mystery masked man was smart/ He got himself a Tonto/ 'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free/ But Tonto he was smarter/ And one day said kemo sabe/ Kiss...
...years ago, was shopping the company around. No one was dancing in the streets about that idea, since Motown ranks as one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S. But last week Gordy announced that he would sell it to the Los Angeles- based entertainment conglomerate MCA and a group of private investors for $61 million...
...MCA will get the valuable catalog of hits by such artists as the Supremes, along with a roster of still working stars including Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson. Gordy, 59, will retain ownership of the sheet-music rights and the film division...