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...McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor and eventually a self-educated writer. She also learned to live with her own distinctive personality. "There's a great, long literary tradition of being off your rocker," she says wryly. (Indeed, The Bell Jar is set at McLean, and poet Robert Lowell spent time there and wrote about...
Chrissie Hynde remains a tough, buoyant rocker...
...woman rocker leading an otherwise all-male band, Chrissie Hynde has long been one of pop music's most fascinating and contradictory figures. Fond of skintight jeans, torn T shirts and excessive amounts of black eye shadow, she combines a punkish disdain for the world with an expressive, let's-get-it-on sexuality. As the songwriter and singer of the Pretenders, she manages to create buoyant, invigorating rock 'n' roll by weaving pop music's tunefulness with punk's aggressive energy. With pulsing, loping guitar work and a ragged- edged style that retains the sound of a great garage...
...There's no tooth for a tooth/ I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth." Cash's voice has deepened with age; he has never sounded more commanding. The songs were written by a range of composers, including Cash, Kris Kristofferson and even hard rocker Glenn Danzig. Each one is moderately paced, simply arranged. Cash's guitar work is direct and intimate -- an old cowboy strumming away around a dying campfire...
Anyone doubting that need only listen to her latest CD Blue Light 'Til Dawn, an enchanting and diverse collection that includes jazz renditions of songs by folk rocker Joni Mitchell and bluesman Robert Johnson. The first track, You Don't Know What Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album...