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...road song sometimes seems like a anachronism in this age of flight. So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Back Porch assembled a talented and diverse group of musicians to record The I-10 Chronicles, an entire album of road songs. Willie Nelson, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite are just a few of the contributors to this ambitious project...
...together the musical styles that can be heard along the I-10, a freeway that stretches across the southern United States. The original blues and country compositions are enjoyable. There are quite a few covers, too; Duritz's remake of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" stands out, as does Willie Nelson's interpretation of "Everybody's Talkin'." Even Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa (featured in Buena Vista Social Club) joins in, performing "El Guateque de Don Thomas," a traditional Cuban song; as the liner notes explain, Cuban music was popular along the Gulf of Mexico...
...Marilyn Monroe cooed Happy Birthday) and touring with Paul Simon. Her personal life was sometimes tumultuous--she's been married to South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American black-power activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds timeless and tireless. The succulent African pop songs are in English and in Xhosa (Makeba's native tongue). The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid...
TIME's coverage of environmental issues has grown right along with Earth Day. The brainchild of former Senator Gaylord Nelson, it began in the U.S. as a day of ragtag demonstrations on April 22, 1970, and now, on its 30th anniversary, is an Internet-driven global happening. TIME caught the wave even before the first Earth Day, establishing our Environment section in August 1969. Over the years the section has produced dozens of cover stories, including the 1989 special report in which we named Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year. In 1998 our U.S. edition launched a two-year...
...natural world were essentially ignored. The environmentalists of the day realized that a unifying event was necessary to focus national attention on the environment. The idea for the holiday began amidst Vietnam protests and peaceful activist rebellions. It was first conceived, according to Earth Day founder and Senator Gaylord Nelson, as a "nation-wide teach-in for the environment...