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...training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively scalding interpretations of "Muleskinner, Easy Rider" and "God's Gonna Cut You Down," announced the arrival of a voice whose sonic and emotive power could raise the dead and reach the deaf...
...nearly flawless English about life in his mountain town, about how he was preparing for his college-entrance exams before the quake struck. Eventually, I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. Unclaimed bodies lay under bloody sheets. A 20-ft.-tall (6 m) statue of a rider on horseback had been decapitated by the violent shaking. The hands of a clock in a tower in the town square were stuck at 2:28 p.m. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses were lying outside the massage parlor. A family member identified Deng's mother...
Justin McBride has earned over $5 million as a professional bull rider, more than anyone in the sport's history. He's won two world championships and is retiring after he finishes competing in the Professional Bull Riders World Finals currently underway in Las Vegas. TIME talked to McBride about why he drove his teachers crazy, bull riders who wear helmets, and his burgeoning country music career...
Maybe you like hi-tops. Maybe you are more of a low-rider. Maybe you want a single-colored shoe, maybe you crave a rainbow. Whatever your preference, there is something for you. But you shouldn’t be afraid to venture outside of your comfort zone when making fashion choices...
...Sufjan Stevens to Mika without ever really sinking in. By far the highlight of the album comes when the funk slows down to Marvin Gaye speed on “St. Exquisite’s Confessions.” With a beat that would make for some good low-rider music and vocals that warp and disintegrate under the weight of some cool effects, it’s easy to understand why Barnes has taken to performing this song live perched upon a white horse, wearing gold shorts, covered in red glitter body paint, and hanging from a noose.Yeah, their...