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...listed in tourism brochures as the hip music capital of the Lone Star State. But it's doing its part. The tiny town is the home base of Shea Seger, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter behind one of this year's smartest debuts, The May Street Project (RCA). "Growing up, I hated the smallness of the town," says Seger, who was born in Fort Worth but moved to Quitman when she was four years old. "Now I respect it for its simplicity." Seger has also lived in a number of other places, including Virginia Beach, Va. (where she embraced...
...says. "I've been practicing. These new songs are kicking my ass." Matthews is loved by many but not by all. The people--music-downloading, Temptation Island-watching ordinary folks--love Dave. The Dave Matthews Band is the hottest rock act on the road, and its new CD, Everyday (RCA), is hotly anticipated. But critics are divided. Some admire the group for its lack of pretense, its knowledgeable embrace of world-music influences, its mastery of concert performance in an age when a teen hottie lip-synching to prerecorded vocals she may or may not have ever recorded...
...passion that dated back to listening to Beatles and Jackson 5 records as a child. As a bartender at a Charlottesville joint named Miller's, he came across a lot of musicians and gathered some together to start a band. The DMB won a local following and signed with RCA...
Listening to a DMB album is like watching the tape of a playoff game--it's not the same as catching it live. For the new CD, the band recorded a dozen songs with Steve Lillywhite, who produced the DMB's earlier RCA studio albums and is known for his work with U2. But then Matthews and his mates decided to shelve that effort and start over with producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith). "We were spinning our wheels a bit--musically the challenge was gone," says Beauford...
...Kind of Christmas (RCA...