Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third and most difficult music cover story for which DeVoss has done the major interviews. "Merle Haggard was as straightforward as his country origins, and Joni Mitchell's life is chronicled in her song lyrics. But Elton John is completely different from his image," explains DeVoss, who during four days in London accompanied the pop star on a round of shopping, dinners and post-midnight gambling, where John never bet less than ?100. Cruising around the city in his Rolls-Royce, Elton would spot people connected with his career and stop to say hello while DeVoss garnered quotes. Among...
...logs arranged like benches beneath towering elms, an enraptured, mostly young and blue-jeaned audience listens as Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...
...tough little bit of song parody, the Rolling Stones once suggested: "Summer's here, and the time is right/ For fighting in the streets." It's also a prime time on screen for assorted brawls, mysteries, plots, tests of valor and full-fledged battles, as the current crop of thrillers amply demonstrates...
...number was 93% in 1950. In the familiar illogic of nationalistic pride, birthright Americans-here not by choice but by chance-began to insist that there was some special virtue in their nativity. The American spirit seemed to be changing from The World Turned Upside Down (a song of the Revolutionary period) to God Bless America...
...more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold my life in his saving grace." As the melody begins to rise, she floats a light true soprano above the whining steel guitar: "I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham if I thought I could see, I could see your face...