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Across the Borderline is, indeed, like a more contemporary and personalized version of Nelson's smash album of pop standards, Stardust -- a songbook that Nelson transforms into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could be expunged from the collective pop consciousness without doing damage to Nelson's beleaguered bank account. But with a little luck, Across the Borderline will fix him for good right where he belongs, among the best of American music. If still really is still moving to him, then...
...Square Garden and paid joyous tribute to the music of Bob Dylan. The concert, which lasted well over three hours, was a loose-limbed, dynamic show that didn't waste a second on sentiment or nostalgia. Instead, with Bob himself leading the pack, it trip-hammered through the Dylan songbook, setting free the wild spirit of some of the best tunes written in the past 30 years...
...Cole Porter Songbook, Ella Fitzgerald...
...FRED ASTAIRE SONGBOOK (PBS, March 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). His singing was as heavenly as his dancing, as this wonderful tribute shows...
...MISBEHAVIN'. The joint is jumpin', again: the jubilant Fats Waller songbook that won three 1978 Tony Awards returns to Broadway with the original cast...