Word: songfulness
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...there's one thing more unsettling than a bunch of contestants dragging cameras to skid row as they vie for a book deal and TV pilot, it's seeing their responses critiqued as if they were singing a Christina Aguilera song ("You call that a speech?"). Messengers, to be fair, is self-conscious about that: in one scene, a homeless woman lectures TLC's cameras, "This ain't no damn zoo. These are human beings." She's right. This is possibly the best-intentioned--and creepiest--TV show you will see this year...
...fifth, the latest, and the last in a decade-long partnership with Rick Rubin, producer of the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their projects bucked Cash’s conventional gospel and country material, sticking mainly to alternative- and classic-rock cover songs. However, this album is confessional in a way “American IV: The Man Comes Around” only began to broach. The collection of 10 covers and two original pieces is the sound of Cash coming to grips with his impending death, then helping his audience to do the same...
...harm…Just good ol’ boys, wouldn’t change if they could,” croons a singer in an old western melody. The lyrics have been ringing in my ears for the past few weeks. If recent Arizona politics had a theme song, this tune might be it.A few weeks ago, I sat in a hotel conference room here, slouched in the audience of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission’s quarterly meeting. I was there with my mother, who is active in statewide conservation efforts, to monitor the passage...
...prove any of this was politically motivated? Of course not. But that's the magic of the terror-alert song and dance. There's no way to know. All the key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. So it's impossible to know from the outside whether it's on the level or not. But with another election looming, it seems we're about to get a bunch of new chances to wonder...
...influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant Jenkins impressed fellow lefty Hendrix, who incorporated some of Jenkins' antics into his repertoire after seeing him play in Macon. A few years after recording the 1970 classic Ton-Ton Macoute...