Word: tenors
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...could relate him to that great American junkmeister Robert Rauschenberg, his contemporary, except that the whole tenor of his imagination was different, being based on handmaking, on high-intensity craft, rather than on semirandom assemblies of street detritus. Which is not to say that Westermann was a better or a worse artist than Rauschenberg--just wholly different, not least because of the dark side of his work...
...Donald Clarke calls them - were also social criticism; they sounded black but could apply to alienated whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back!"; as Charlie Brown: "Why is everybody...
...Shirley and Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll," Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," Fats Domino's "I'm in Love Again," Lee Andrews and the Hearts' "Long Lonely Nights" (co-written, according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering that the rest of my musculature has amnesia...
...Noted "We keep it secret like a doctor keeping a patient's records." MANU MELWANI, owner of Sam's Tailor shop in Hong Kong, on the measurements of jumbo tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who ordered nine suits last week...
...album's best tracks is Always, a duet between Seger and Canadian troubadour Ron Sexsmith. Seger has a bright, brittle voice, like a leaf that's turned some colorful shade of autumn. Her vocals contrast nicely with Sexsmith's plaintive tenor. Always has some elements a listener might associate with folk or country--including gentle acoustic-guitar work--but the track, tastefully sweetened with synthesizers, never settles into any one genre. "I know what I want to see," sings Seger on the song. "And I know where I want to be." Seger may have a peripatetic past...