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...embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity of his music. Photographs of his skinny indie-bod and endearing bedhead hair frequently appear in the music press, which predictably enough, has gone apeshit over his weepy singer-songwriter crooning (as if atoning for the loss of Elliott Smith). Thanks to their relentless firehose of hype, Oberst has become the pouty poster boy for an uninspired mass of faux-alternative artists whose gentle yet tearful lyrical confessions sell millions of records to disaffected youth squealing...
...country ballads. Oberst cashes in on his heartland roots to deliver ten tracks of white boy blues, twanging along to song titles like “Old Soul Song” and “Another Travelin’ Song.” While the album is much more singer-songwriter oriented than Digital Ash, many of the songs include a fair amount of accompaniment from the mandolin, the harmonica or the organ. Country legend Emmylou Harris sings back-up vocals on three of the tracks (“We Are Nowhere And It?...
WILL HE TESTIFY? Risky--think of the cross-examination--but not impossible. The singer has taken the stand before in civil cases (with mixed results). Says former prosecutor Anne Bremner: "If the state's case is really strong, he may have no choice" but to testify...
...Singer-songwriter Tori Amos releases a new album, The Beekeeper, and a memoir, Piece by Piece, this month...
...Robert Nesta Marley, who was born in Jamaica in 1945 and died in Miami in 1981, would have turned 60 years old on February 6th. Like the island on which he was born, he was man of many names and many identities. When Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, inducted Marley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he said this about the Tuff Gong: "He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island...