Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some fans may miss the simplicity of the pair's earlier recordings. But their new, more elaborate songs still have fire, grace and melodies that leap out at the listener. Once again, they sing beautifully braided harmonies with the occasional hint of dissonance, and their lyrics as usual have an eloquent, freewheeling wordiness. "I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself," Saliers declares on Least Complicated. On This Train Revised, Ray reshapes the classic song This Train into a forceful, impressionistic account of her visit to Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Piss and blood in a railroad...
Later this year, Ray and Saliers will appear with actress and comic Whoopi Goldberg in the movie Boys on the Side. Goldberg plays a lesbian folk singer who runs into Indigo Girls in a Tucson, Arizona, bar. Together, they all sing a few Indigo Girls songs along with a cover of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Saliers and Ray enjoyed working with Goldberg ("Technically, her voice is only a little above average," says Ray, "but she's got soul and can really deliver a song"), although they disagree on whether more films are in their future. Says...
Watching Mart sing is a little bit likewatching a disgusting, hyperactive little kidperform in front of you. He prowls around stage,bunched over the two microphones he has tapedtogether. He screams and chortles and snarls andoccasionally sings his way through Fat Day's sets,grabbing his balls, pulling his hair, yelling'fuck you' at random people in the audience. Healso often will yell 'fuck you' in the middle ofthe street, but in a friendly sort...
Some of us put on shows for servicemen, theDance Club hopping through Mexican steps, theFrench Club inventing a cabaret for the crew of aFree French warship in Boston Harbor. For thisevent, from a record, I learned to sing "LeFiacre." Later, I corresponded with one sailor ashis maraine-de-guerre(godmother-of-war)--until French censors found, inone of his letters to me, a snapshot of his ship.For this lapse, my godson-of-war did some time inthe brig...
Next year's students will probably study,agonize, complain, throw snowballs, sing andbehave nuttily at strange hours...