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...marked contrast to his brother, Jeb is considered a workaholic policy wonk (although he's been known to relax his patrician demeanor with a glass of Wild Turkey and Motown CDs), and he practically oozes public service vigor, part of what Bush-watchers call the family's drive to cement its place as the GOP's answer to the Kennedy dynasty. "Whether they agree with his policies or not," says political consultant and former Jeb spokesman Cory Tilley, "taxpayers still admire him because they know they're getting their money's worth from...
...wrote her essays in the chaos of her North House—now Pforzheimer—room, she would listen to Cambridge’s country radio station.“I hated country music,” she says. She had been raised with Motown and soul beats, but she discovered listening to country allowed her to concentrate.The “breakthrough experience,” she said, was when she had to type a 100-page screenplay for a North House seminar. “At first I started listening to it as a joke, and then...
...from 1964 to ’66. But don’t blame the lineup for the lackluster material; instead, blame legendary Studio One owner and producer Clement Seymour Dodd, a.k.a. “Coxsone.” Coxsone was part Elvis manager Colonel Tom Parker and part Motown Records proprietor Barry Gordy. He shared Parker’s view that music was more business than art, and he demanded the Wailers produce songs on demand. The group spent two years in a trailer behind Coxsone’s place of business, toking up and pumping out new material...
...Listen to those smooth Motown trumpets and funky beat on jazz-hop jesters De La Soul’s classic “Eye Know.” Smokey Robinson? Nope, that’s actually bleached-white classic rock group Steely Dan (the track is “Peg”), who are also namechecked on Chicago rapper Common’s song “I Am Music...
...What They Will Find” was released in the U.S. on Nov. 15. They’re all original songs except for one, which is a cover of the Montel Bass song “Rescue Me.” It’s an upbeat, Motown kind of song, so we did a slower, more sultry jazz version. A couple of the tracks are from the first album I recorded that was an independently released album. I was 16 when I made it so we wanted to go back and revisit some of those songs, especially because...