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When a reverential nation should have been paying its final respects to a hero, it was instead debating whether criticism of George W. Bush at her funeral would lower his job approval ratings. By using Mrs. King’s funeral as an excuse to pedal their own ideological agendas, several of our nation’s leaders illustrated just how devoid of honor and decency politics are in the United States today...
...most surprising success, as Beam replaced the driving folk guitar of the recorded version with—are those palm-muted power chords? Beam made the unlikely arrangement work somehow, playing the song at a moderate tempo with moody accompaniment from softly driving toms, a violin, and a pedal steel guitar.Beam’s attempts to reinvigorate his work were valuable experiments even when they fell flat. A full-band, electric version “Jezebel,” one of Beam’s strongest songs, failed to improve on the original. Instead, the quickened tempo and staccato...
...Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats Kaplin plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, pedal steel guitar, accordion) and I think their work is amazing...
Then, she pressed the gas pedal on a solo road trip through Pennsylvania and all the way to Boston University, where she crashed with high school friends from her days at Andover. Since she moved to Harvard, she’s stayed on the grind, attending eight classes on the first day of shopping period...
Just a second. The sound you hear is brakes being put on, and it is the band that has the heaviest foot on the pedal. "We don't think we're that good, really," says Bono, 26, who writes the lyrics and fronts the band both as lead singer and resident shaman. "We think we are overrated, and though we're concerned about living up to people's expectations, it scares us even to live up to our own expectations." "The band is at a frontier," says Bass Guitarist Adam Clayton, 27. "You don't get something for nothing. This...