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...Walk the Line express an unexceptional sentiment: because I love you, I behave. But the thumping bass line and Cash's delivery ("I keep my eyes wide open all the time") make the mood part predatory, part paranoid. Even the upbeat love story Ballad of a Teenage Queen has a spooky side; it sounds as if it's beamed from the bottom of the well of loneliness. Phillips used acoustical reverbs on many Sun productions, but Cash hardly needed it. His voice was its own eerie echo chamber. "His voice was painful, it emoted so much ache and realness," says...
Most of the album is structured to let Franklin do her trademark thing: sing about making it through heartache with her faith intact. The Queen of Soul never really did melody: like an expert surgeon who leaves the nurses to stitch up, it's a little beneath her. Instead she rises and plunges over songs like The Only Thing Missin' and Ain't No Way. It's a style the Mariah Careys of the world have copied and perverted into a circus act, but Franklin actually invests her rumbles and squeaks with authentic emotion...
...Queen is a punishing hitter who racked up 28 tackles last season. He moves to linebacker while junior Brian Niemczak, who played linebacker last season, takes Queen’s old position in the defensive backfield...
...Balestracci is not Harvard’s only linebacker. He will likely be joined in the starting line-up this season by junior Bobby Everett and senior Juano Queen, who moves to linebacker from strong safety...
...Queen is blessed with natural athletic ability, possessing the squad’s highest vertical leap (36.5”). He showed his ability at Princeton last year, coming up with 11 tackles and his first career interception in Harvard’s 24-17 victory...