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...John Rich is a unique talent. But as a rogue, huckster and progressive, he is extraordinary. It was Rich who helped create the Muzik Mafia, a loose collective of musical outcasts deemed too rock, too rough or just too weird by the famously conservative executives on Nashville's Music Row. It was Rich, along with partner Big Kenny Alphin, who came up with the Mafia acronym (Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance) and slogan ("Music without prejudice") and showed the group members how to turn their individuality into hits, co-writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly...
...ambition. Most of it falls squarely, if not unpleasantly, within the accepted boundaries of modern country. Mixed in with the inoffensive party tracks (including one that makes a commendable use of Spanglish) are songs about debt and God, and a duet with Sarah Buxton that sounds more like Music Row than the Muzik Mafia. The absence of a single social or political lyric leaves the impression that Cowboy Troy may be the obverse of a certain white rapper whose skin is outwardly a comfort to his audience but whose substantive goal is to make that audience uncomfortable. Troy's skin...
...keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean...
...Yale went out and they really had a gutsy go,” said senior varsity seven-seat Michael Kummer. “They rowed the piece how they had to row the piece. It was a well-fought race on everybody’s behalf...
With three of Harvard’s top four singles players all trailing their matches, the Crimson was in danger of being upset in the first round for the second year in a row. Durkin, however, stepped up to send Harvard into the next round. With the first set locked at four, Durkin broke Dent’s serve and then held her own serve to close out a tight 6-4 win. After Dent went ahead in the second set, 4-3, Durkin reeled off wins in three straight games, breaking Dent’s serve twice...