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Every once in a while, Shania Twain will munch on a carrot stick, whip her curly hair over her shoulder and issue a modest decree. It is worth paying attention to these pronouncements, even though Twain, who is Canadian and thus constitutionally averse to star trips, never quite means what she says. On a brisk October night, with the bleat of Paris traffic in her ears, the Twain fiat is this: she is going to stop singing in public. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," she says. "I have no need...
After adopting the stage name Shania, an Ojibwa word meaning "I'm on my way," Twain released her self-titled debut. It sold a respectable 100,000 copies, although no one, not even Twain, seemed to like it. She had visions of being a songwriter, but only one of her compositions made the album. Then her manager got a message from a man calling himself Mutt, who said he had seen one of Twain's kittenish videos while exercising in his London home and was interested in writing songs with her. The manager sent Mutt an autographed photo with generic...
Selling is apparently never far from Lange's mind. "He'd love to have the top record of all time," says Mercury's Lewis. "Everybody's trying to make a living, and it's fun, but there is a scorecard. And if Shania thinks that that's what he wants, she'll help him get it." Twain admits she has bought into the Lange program completely, although, she adds, they're equal partners in her success. "Mutt alone has never had this much success in his career," she says. "Never as consistently and never as big. It's what...
...president and founder of the label, says today's country music has siphoned off the "twang and pain" that made the genre meaningful and distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted way, they helped remove the stigma that country might bring to performers like Lucinda or Ryan...
...country" brings to mind images of Shania Twain, kick her leopard-print-clad ass right on out. Alt-country, or Y'allternative as it is sometimes called, is definitely not the glitzy pop-twang that today's country has become. Nor does it have the excess of sound-alike, look-alike bands of alternative rock. For initiates to the alt-country scene, it's hard to define the sound. Maybe the stage footwear of the Jayhawks provides a good analogy. Vocalist Gary Louris was decked out in cowboy boots, while fellow guitarist Kraig Johnson sported Converse sneakers. Not quite country...