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...would definitely take more risks and sing in an a capella group. I have two unfulfilled dreams: singing, which I would have done in college, and I always wanted to fly an airplane. If there were a flying club, I would give anything to join...
PEOPLE: Dave as Dad; Bennifer; un-merry Clooney; Hello, Art, my old friend, I'll sing with you again...
...wrote Samuel Beckett, whose plays and novels are no more depressing than your average country lament. John R. Cash (his first producer, Sun Records boss Sam Phillips, dubbed him Johnny) had every right to sing the country blues. Demons found him even when he wasn't looking for them. He dressed like a hip coroner and sang like a gunman turned Pentecostal preacher. His haunting songs perfectly matched his haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made...
Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental--a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinead O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths...
Most of the album is structured to let Franklin do her trademark thing: sing about making it through heartache with her faith intact. The Queen of Soul never really did melody: like an expert surgeon who leaves the nurses to stitch up, it's a little beneath her. Instead she rises and plunges over songs like The Only Thing Missin' and Ain't No Way. It's a style the Mariah Careys of the world have copied and perverted into a circus act, but Franklin actually invests her rumbles and squeaks with authentic emotion...