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...contrast to the whizzing machinery and artifice of Digital Ash, Wide Awake features Bright Eyes’ signature folk-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...
...longer say “Merry Christmas”; they can’t light a community Christmas tree; and they don’t allow their children to sing renditions of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for fear of alienating classmates by the song??s mention of “Christmas Eve.” Admittedly, I was mildly outraged—a classic case of unreasonable political correctness. The article’s anecdotes were pretty ridiculous. Included were instances where students were reprimanded for wishing friends...
Saturday’s contestants each prepared two pieces, the first being an “epic song??—a timeless hit—and the second being a song of their choice. They nailed their notes in front of their peers and under the scrutiny of three judges: vocalist Zachary R. Rainor ’05, Veritas Records founder and President Daniel Zaccagnino ’05, and last year’s winner, Amy M. Zelcer...
Fabrizio started the night off with the classic “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and said that if she had known the judges would have wanted more enthusiasm from the performers, she would have chosen a more upbeat second song??instead of the ballad “Come Away With...
...drums broke into a strong, smooth beat that had the whole church bobbing and clapping. “Now Behold the Lamb” produced the kind of soulful sound normally associated with artists as Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. But it was one of the song??s soloists, Kuumba president Shola Olorunnipa ’05 who stole the show with unrestrained excitement in her voice, leading the audience (as well as fellow Kuumba singers) to explode with applause...