Word: songfulness
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...compelling model of the benefits of synergy.) But singing ŕ deux can be a tricky business. "Duets are blind dates," says Bennett. "You meet people, often for the first time, and then you've got to get close enough to them to get at the soul of a song. We're trying for instant intimacy. You never know if you're going...
...Jack Warden, 85, prizefighter turned tough guy of stage and screen who appeared in nearly 100 films over five decades, including 12 Angry Men, All the President's Men and The Verdict, and won an Emmy for playing Chicago Bears coach George Halas in the TV movie Brian's Song; in New York City. An Army paratrooper in World War II, Warden fell in love with drama after a fellow soldier gave him a play to read. He moved to New York City after the war to take acting lessons and pursue a career that eventually led to two Oscar...
With “White Bread, Black Beer,” Gartside has moved from deconstructing the love song to working out how love can tear itself apart—among many, many other things. If this shift makes his thoughts a little muddier (as he puts it, “Tying everything together / so I can’t think it anymore”), it also makes them much richer...
...nothing new to compare love and addiction, but Gartside’s delivery is incisively eerie because he teases one out of the other instead of just smashing them together. “Let me show you my arms” gets repeated again and again in the song “Throw,” and it’s up to you to decide whether it’s the slyest of sexual advances or a nod to heroin abuse...
...love and drugs aren’t Gartside’s only vices. The guy who sings like Al Green sweet-talking a 12-year old devotes an entire verse of his album’s opening song to Run-D.M.C song titles, and his production owes...