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...could be a freak or a fluke: a 12-year-old with a hit CD. But the kid is no country-music aberration, no preteen Billy Ray Cyrus. As he shows on this set of puppy-love tunes and hound-dog rave-ups, Gilman is a real singer--sort of Charlotte Church gone Nashville--with impressive breath control and a fine sense of drama. On the title ballad, for instance, he'll hold a long note without hoking it up, without forsaking its texture or personality. This is a voice of choirboy purity, before it gets weathered and leathered...
...Sopranos" has drawn rave reviews from television critics and viewers in its two years...
...Life - Beatles 2. Satisfaction - Stones 3. Like a Rolling Stone - Dylan 4. Born to Run - Springsteen 5. Respect - Aretha 6. What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye 7. Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin 8. Purple Haze - Hendrix 9. Rave On - Buddy Holly 10. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard...
...when the opportunity presented itself, I decided to give it a whirl. And I lived to tell about it--that is, rave about it. Of our eight person party, only four were stalwart enough to sign up (and pay the $100 it cost). At around 7:30 p.m. we set out in the back of a rickety pickup truck for a 45-minute drive to the top of a 6,500-foot mountain on a dirt road exactly the width of the truck's wheel-base. As the non-English speaking driver shifted into lower and lower gear...
With all this exuberance it's strange that the Magliozzis would write In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave (Perigee Books; $20), a 268-page book in which the brothers take four-page turns complaining. They whine about car manufacturers, but also about Starbucks, the Founding Fathers and bottled water. Much of it is smart, but none of it works as well as the radio show. Mostly because you can't hear them laugh...