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Attentive parents can find other reminders of the glory days of their own youth. A&M Records' Tim Noah belts out a Springsteen-style anthem: "I was raised on rock 'n' roll/ Bo Diddley, Fats Domino/ Mama rocked me by the radio/ Raised on rock 'n' roll." Rory, who records for Sony, does a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Diana Ross in a cut from her album I'm Just a Kid. This Saturday, Radio AAHS, a 24-hour children's station in Minneapolis, will sponsor a concert featuring well-known kids' performers like Joanie Bartels and Bob McGrath. They...
...intrepid small record company in New Jersey called Bar/None has a real comer in Freedy Johnson. His album, titled Can You Fly, features the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter stalking his own subconscious, sounding like a cross between Hank Williams (on The Mortician's Daughter) and a skid-row Springsteen (on We Will Shine). John Prine had a wonderful new album a few months back, The Missing Years (Oh Boy), and Luka Bloom's The Acoustic Motorbike (Reprise) is like Celine in high spirits. It's all enough to make you believe that that staple of music-biz resurrection, the folk revival...
...rarely settles for the frisson of a good impersonation; his sketches usually give the satiric knife an extra twist or two. In "Amish Studs," the leering host coaxes double entendres out of every innocent comment from chaperoned contestants ("I was impressed with his incredible plowing ability"). In "Legends of Springsteen," a New Jersey rock fan recalls the time when the Boss made a surprise appearance at a bar, played all night and even stayed around to mop the floor and refill the catsup bottles...
...array of choices will be so rich that TV may finally break out of the current malaise described by Bruce Springsteen in 57 Channels (And Nothing On). In his book Life After Television, George Gilder predicts that the merging of TV and computers will bring the demise of network mediocrity. "Big events -- the Super Bowl or the election debates or the most compelling mass programs -- will still command their audiences," he writes. "But all the media junk food and filler will tend to disappear. People will order what they want rather than settling for what is there...
When I decided, in defiance of overwhelming popular opinon, that Bruce Springsteen was a square, Katie was right there with me, sticking her finger down her throat in an exaggerated show of distaste whenever my mom played her "Born in the USA" record...