Word: troubadour
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Maybe you know the myth, maybe you don't. It simply doesn't matter. Forget all your preconceptions about Bob Dylan--the poet-troubadour, the over-rated 60's protest-song writer, Mr. "Blowin' in the Wind", or even the man with a voice that sounds like a cat choking on a hairball. It simply doesn't matter--Live 1996 will surprise Dylan-lovers, haters and I-don't-knowers alike...
...July afternoon, Paul Simon was fiddling with dials on a control panel in a cramped recording studio in midtown Manhattan. With most of his hair gone and his plump face inching toward jowly, the pop troubadour, 56, has reached unmistakable middle age. But the mellow, yearning voice coming through the sound system has changed little: "I was born in Puerto Rico/ Came here when I was a child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces...
...best of Clarence Major's fiction, Cliff confronts the Americanization of not only the Caribbean but the world, finding poetry in every image and line. "A salesman is free, he tells himself...People look forward to his arrival, and not just for the goods he carries. He is part troubadour...
...Harmonists, a popular German singing group of the '20s and '30s--composed of Jews and non-Jews--that was disbanded by the Nazis. Manilow on Hitler's Germany? Why not? "The pop-music business doesn't want to work hard; it just wants a catchy melody," says the sentimental troubadour, whose string of pop-chart-topping melodies--Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, I Write the Songs--ended years ago. "You get to a point where you look for other places where you can do it, and Broadway seems like the right place...
...moment, Oppenheimer talks about dressing in drag at a protest to make a point and describes how he infiltrated a neo-Nazi group by pretending he was an alien abductee. Then, it's on to his year off as modern day troubadour in Calcutta and the filmmaking he will pursue while on his Marshall Scholarship next year...