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...raspier than ever, but his vocal gymnastics display an unexpected spryness. On one song, the Stax-like "Make No Mistake," he even croons and whispers like Al Green (though without Green's range), curling his voice around each syllable with palpable relish. Keith also proves himself a reasonable blues shouter, in the mold of--who else?--Mick Jagger...
...kidney disease; in Torrance, Calif. Appearing with the Beatles on British TV in 1965, she was acknowledged by them as a major innovative force in rock 'n' roll. Her death came only three weeks after that of Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton, a rip-roaring blues shouter who also had a profound influence on white singers...
...Before Elvis there was nothing," John Lennon stated in one of his last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained...
...alumni need to loosen up, Janus says, and she's counting on the cheerleaders to get them going. Janus is a shouter at games. One Saturday afternoon she let out a particularly lusty bellow and a distinguished crusty alumni next to her glared. "Madam," he corrected, "It's not appropriate to shout...
...producer. Despite his multiple involvement, Songs has all the spontaneity and relaxation of a jumping jamboree. Indeed, there has not been a pop album this good or this diversified since Wonder's Fulfillingness's First Finale in 1974. Stevie growls at times like an old delta blues shouter, but for the most part he sings in his distinctive black/white style, which occasionally echoes Paul McCartney or Ray Charles. The broad range of musical styles is equally absorbing: those Beatlesque strings in the austere Village Ghetto Land, the swinging blues underpinnings of Black Man, the Latin glee of Another...