Word: swingingly
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They started out slow, with a playful version of "Sing." Brown's bass didn't seem to swing as hard as it usually does, sounding sparse and lacking depth. However, they found their groove quickly, and the next few tunes found Malone expertly demonstrating the breadth of his capabilities. He switched smoothly from fiery solos to contemplative, fragile pieces. Malone held the room silently captivated as he provided a distinctive bassline while flirting with chord melody standards...
...Well, no. I mean, it's such a crap shoot, you know? You can't go out thinking that every swing is going to be a home run. It really is a sort of zen thing. You have to let the audience decide, "We love this character, we think this is funny, we want to see this again...
Mark Knopfler, former lead singer of Dire Straits, is not scared to blaze a new trail. In Sailing to Philadelphia, the indignant, muted, yet invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have...
...Which was fine with Al Gore, who loudly cut short a day in swing-state land (Milwaukee, specifically) to go back to Washington and take his incumbent's place at the adult table. "He's vice president, he's part of the national security team, and a situation like this requires that the full team be in place," said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane. "This is not about politics," he added. "This is about peace in the Middle East." And an administration scrambling to have some stability to point to in November...
...foreign policy, and the challenger thrilled supporters by sounding acceptably presidential on the subject. But after Bush made so much of America "speaking with one voice" during any ongoing foreign crisis, what's a little ol' Texas governor to do in the meantime? Mark time on Medicare in swing-state land (Pennsylvania, specifically) and hope voters make it deep enough into their newspapers to read about...