Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with pseudo cowboys in tight jeans, ten-gallon hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...
...decision means that the law will remain on hold for months to come. What remains to be seen is how it will affect the burgeoning national movement to boycott Colorado until Amendment 2 is reversed. In the past week alone, in a distinctly a-material gesture, singer Madonna said she will shun Colorado "until the amendment is lifted...
...European artist at the time used such sources with as much aplomb. Scorning British good taste and the Edwardian artist's role as the groom of new aristocrats -- a task he left to what he called the "wriggle and chiffon" school of portraiture, led by the American expatriate John Singer Sargent -- Sickert went down a few class notches, looking for a virile, demotic way of painting that did something more with popular culture than peer at it from above...
...NICE THING ABOUT FEMALE singer-songwriters is that they don't have to pretend to be guys. Guy singers do. Dead scared of being tagged sensitive, they get muscle-bound in machismo; it cramps their style and muddies their palette. But Annie Lennox or Bonnie Raitt or Mary-Chapin Carpenter can find shading in passion, a smile in sorrow. Especially in sorrow. For these artists, love is a thing felt most deeply when it's lost. So their songs are mostly past tense: the awful stuff that happened to them, the brave face they can put on it. They must...
...staple of the late '80s with the success of records by 10,000 Maniacs and Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians. The newest album from THE SUNDAYS, Blind, shows an unexpected durability of that format as well as a band that succeeds by smartly playing from its strengths. Sundays lead singer Harriet Wheeler deserves much of the credit. Front and center is her floating, shimmering alto, unfurling like a silken ribbon and ringing like brass. Her lyrics are ordinary but agilely delivered. David Gavurin's well-balanced compositions and sweet, guitar-led arrangements provide Wheeler with an intricately detailed yet unobtrusive...