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...After a brief chance to change and freshen up, Albright headed to another mausoleum - this one containing the embalmed remains of Kim Il Sung, the founder of communist North Korea and father of its present leader, Kim Jong Il. There she paid a courtesy call on Kim junior's number two, before passing through the room where his father lies in state. Despite the fact that he led the 1950 communist invasion of the south, sparking a war in which more than 50,000 U.S. personnel died, she paused briefly in front of Kim Il Sung's waxen corpse...
...Downstairs, the minders had sensed restlessness among the journalists, so they preemptively hustled us into buses for a "city tour." The first stop was the memorial to Kim Il Sung's first speech after the defeat of the Japanese. It was a big mosaic, about 20-by-80 feet, depicting happy farmers, machinists and artists looking on in adoration as the original Great Leader spoke. In front of a stadium just past the mural, an old woman with an overstuffed rucksack and a younger man also with a heavy sack on his back got up and started wandering away, frightened...
...Then I start practicing both hands together. About the first 200 times, I play the song slower than Billie Holiday would have sung it on the day she died. "I - get - too - hun - gry - for - G minor - at - eight." The old gibe about how to get to Carnegie Hall is true: practice, man, practice. Eventually, magically, I start to recognize a song emerging from my fumbles. But something is missing: an audience...
...duet that condemns country's pop trend with lines like "The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang." Spooky. Making light of it all is a song called I'd Give My Right Nut to Save Country Music, sung with deadpan earnestness by C.M.A. Single of the Year winner LEE ANN WOMACK and the lesser-known Ray Driskoll. "It's really meant as a gag," says Nut co-writer Jim Beavers. "We don't take sides; we just think the song's really funny." To promote the song, Driskoll pretended...
...including ukulele and trombone, but her real musical awakening came when she started listening to Brazilian artists such as Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze and Chico Science. "Portuguese music I love, but when I discovered Brazilian--that's when I was like, 'Yeah!'" she says. "Not just because it's sung in Portuguese, which I understand and speak, but because it's got all these great rhythmic elements, and there are just so many great Brazilian records to tap into...