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...only have they produced a brace of rappers outrageously talented enough to redeem a near-moribund genre—in RJD2, they have proved that they don’t even need a rapper to do it. The beats and cuts on RJD2’s debut solo album, Deadringer, are as fresh as they come, neither burdened with artistic pretension nor simply catering to the dance floor...
...tenor of the evening was intimate. Sound levels were low and sympathetic, and Adams played alone—alternately on an acoustic guitar, a grand piano and a resonator guitar—with limited live strings accompaniment. He played a good number of selections from his debut solo album Heartbreaker, including “My Winding Wheel,” “Sweet Lil’ Gal (21st/3rd)”, “Call Me On Your Way Back Home” and a rollicking version of “When You’re Young...
Since much of Heartbreaker is marked by sparse and deflated instrumentation, Adams’ solo performances weren’t noticeable departures from the studio versions. Fulsome, resonant vocals gave flesh to his otherwise skeletal songs. And despite self-indictments of having smoked “too much pot,” Adams’ playing was nothing short of graceful. That’s not to say, of course, that silly shenanigans were in short supply. Carefully poised between center stage and Adams’ guitar amplifier was a tweed-clad phonograph, which he called upon several times during...
Adams also played several selections from his second solo album, Gold, including “When The Stars Go Blue,” recently covered by the Corrs and Bono, and the elegiac “Sylvia Plath.” Since Gold tends toward heavy production quality that is sometimes at odds with Adams’ rough-grained vocals, the solo live versions of these songs were refreshingly honest and vital. Adams also played an imaginative cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” and finished the set with a sedate...
...Going solo intrigues many corporate refugees. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, 11.4% of jobless managers and executives started businesses in the first half of 2002--up from 7.9% in the same period a year ago. Frances Widnt, 47, of Baltimore, Md., is about to join them. Unable to land work as a real estate agent, she is considering kitchen design. "I've gone from being bruised to being excited," she says...