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...subsequent “I Don’t Know What It Is” references Three’s Company and Judy Garland, while “Vicious World” follows the blues tradition while drawing quotes from Wagner’s opera Die Meister Singer. “Pretty Things” both mimicks a Shubertian parlor moment and Cole Porter lyrics. “Go Or Go Ahead” even has passages in homage to Debussy’s children’s piece “Dr. Gratis at Parnassum...
...surprised we’ve come this far,” says lead singer Nick Stumpf. “But I’d like to go further.” Their live performance, which Boston recently witnessed when the band opened for Hot Hot Heat at Axis, showed some promise of evolution but left much to be desired from the young, starstruck group...
Cash was far, far more than a mere singer. He was the voice of God and the conscience of man. He was not ashamed to acknowledge his human frailties, and he taught us that we could call on our angels and be better for our struggles. MARK STIELPER Clarksville...
...Sunshine Singer Johnny Cash [Music, Sept. 22] first came to our attention 35 years ago, when his album of a performance at Folsom Prison was a huge hit. It sold more than 1 million copies and reached the top of the charts in 1968. We told how the recording came about...
...thousand inmates whoop and whistle ... The prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors. This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop albums of the year. Country singer Cash ... is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. 'We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dungeon,' he says, 'and they're not ashamed to respond' ... Cash ... sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck ... The Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years...