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DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...
Chicago fans of the rock group Creed filed suit against the band last week for breach of contract after an awful December concert. The suit claimed vocalist SCOTT STAPP "left the stage on several occasions...rolled around on the floor in apparent pain...and appeared to pass out." Calls to Creed's management last week went unreturned. But after the show, Creed e-mailed fans, saying, "We hope you can take some solace in the fact that you experienced the most unique of all Creed shows." If the 15,000 fans covered by the suit get back...
...furious that it seems on the verge of falling out of step with the halting and heavy riff layered upon it. McComb shows off his ability to dynamically shift vocal tone, without stretching his overall range. His thick-throated melody is reminiscent of Creed’s Scott Stapp with a lot less Jesus and a lot more animosity, while his more aggressive growls and screams are akin to Pantera’s Phil Anselmo...
Creed is certainly better than just about any teen-pop act. Vocalist Scott Stapp, 28, has a vibrato like a mounted assault rifle, and guitarist Mark Tremonti, 27, who doubles as bassist on this record to replace ex-band mate Brian Marshall, bangs out tried and true arena-rock chord progressions with precision. But the canned mysticism of the lyrics almost inspires nostalgia for the professional, if dispassionate, songwriting of producer Max Martin and other behind-the-scenes teen-pop studio wizards. "Let's give love to all," Stapp intones on the final track, Lullaby. Let's give thesauri...