Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music, and on his new album he?s chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version of Hooker?s classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad 'The Healing Game.' '"Don?t Look Back' is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain?t No Big Thing tend to drag," Farley says. "But there are moments of dark...
...various times during his career, Jones has been both composer and CEO, artist and entrepreneur. He has raised the technical field of musical production to the level of an art form and created pop stars in the process...
...wouldn't be worth discussing if it weren't for a single undismissible fact: the same exact songs pop up at Harvard parties with a regularity that is frightening. I can't remember the last party I was at where I wasn't invited to Ride the Train. And every time I go out on the weekend, I can be almost sure that I'll be reminded (and reminded and reminded) that This is My Night, Dancing Free Till the Morning Light...
...Wisconsin State Fair had a welfare-caseload reduction contest, rural Marquette County (pop. about 13,000) would walk off with the blue ribbon. In a state that is fast shedding cases, Marquette's drop has been the steepest: down 91% in the past decade. And it's one of a handful of thinly populated counties that have got the number of "work-qualified" households on their welfare rolls down to a notable benchmark: zero...
...getting into. (Actually, I thought it was a Spanish dance show.) But it turned out to be a musical in the vein of "Rent," interspersed with monologues. I say in the vein of "Rent," because it dealt with similar issues of sexuality, identity and technology on a pop-music soundtrack. But "Cantata 2000" was better than "Rent." By a long shot...