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...Exiles Kent Mackenzie's recently unearthed film from 1961, which follows former reservation Indians around Los Angeles for a night, is unforgettable. The characters are lost and lonesome but photographed with all the nocturnal allure of a Chet Baker song...
Williams is too sophisticated to song-write her own bio, but she's also too shrewd to ignore it, and her engagement to manager Tom Overby (who co-produced Little Honey) seems to have inspired a challenge: say something new about love and happiness. Lyric-sheet readers may wonder if she's up to it. Her usual evocations and minimalist stanzas are replaced by lines like "You're drinking in a bar in Amsterdam/ I'm thinking baby far out, be my man," proof that love and goofiness are but a beer apart...
...George Jones on "Jailhouse Tears"--but the critical decision was to make this a guitar-dominated album. It's not just that it's the warmest instrument in rock, country and blues (Williams' favorite playgrounds) but that Doug Pettibone is the best unknown guitarist in all three. On song after song, Pettibone's six-string acts as Williams' adoring foil, flirting with her between the lyrics on "Circles and Xs," replying with great gusts of seduction on "Knowing." On the album-ending AC/DC cover, they just roll around and laugh. It's exactly the kind of thing you'd play...
Groups are also forced to compete for practice space, off-campus gigs, and even songs to perform. The co-ed groups use an online a cappella database to prevent problems that may arise from two groups learning or arranging the same song. Mallory says the database was created about five years ago to help resolve the common dilemma that arises when groups start to overlap in genre and style...
...library, I found an arrangement of [traditional gospel song] ‘Change in My Life’ arranged by a Veritone,” she recalls. “It’s a full arrangement written by hand—this was before the computer program—and on the top it said ‘Opps got it’ with a frown...