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What's been the toughest part of working in Haiti? To prove myself to the people, to say, Look, I don't work for the FBI, I don't work for the CIA. I'm a musician who left Haiti when I was 10 years old. I didn't come to judge...
...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
This distinction does not make him the best musician anywhere, as he will be the first to admit. Tomlin's How Great Is Our God (which he co-wrote with Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash), currently the second most popular modern chorus in U.S. churches (after Tim Hughes' Here I Am to Worship), is not particularly profound--the title pretty much sums it up--but it's heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft...
Tomlin's third album, See the Morning, released this fall, is doing nice enough business--it has sold about 124,000 copies--but that's not the point of it. Its creator thinks of himself less as a musician and more as a worship leader. Unassuming, single, shortish, Tomlin grew up in a sporty, churchgoing family in Grand Saline, Texas, where he and his two brothers used to play music in the annual Salt Festival. These days he lives in Austin, Texas, but spends much of his life on the road, as a sort of itinerant music minister. "So many...
...third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more...