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...When Kane sings his tune "Goree," he switches from traditional Senegalese rock n' roll, called mbalax, to Deep South blues, replete with throaty intonations in the style of B.B. King. Goree is an island off the coast of Dakar where slaves were kept before being shipped off to the New World. Nowadays it survives as a popular tourist attraction, particularly for African-Americans looking to retrace their heritage. A contrarian by nature, Kane makes the point that the blues originated in west Africa before crossing the Middle Passage to America...
...word for "door" - could even offer TV programs at some point. Vanjoki, who is in charge of marketing Ovi, says it will includes millions of songs from all 4 major record labels as well as from regional bands. Nokia has set a European price of 1 Euro for a tune, and of 10 Euros for a CD. It has not finalized U.K. pricing, but when I searched for Dexter Gordon CD's in a test drive, the screen showed ?8.00 for a CD and 80 pence for a single. (As a sign that Ovi well might deliver millions of tunes...
...preseason tune-up, junior Louis Caputo wrestled to a ninth-place finish at the Junior World Championships hosted by the China Agricultural University this Sunday in Beijing. Caputo, who represented the United States at the tournament after winning the FILA Junior World Team Trials in late May, competed in the freestyle 84 kg. weight class and posted a 2-2 record. After defeating Canada’s Cotlen Woznow, 3-1, 4-0, Caputo fell to Anzor Urishev of Russia in a shutout. In his match against China’s B. Huwatibieke in the wrestlebacks, Caputo relied on superior...
...Elvis wanted to be the full-service, multigenerational entertainer; he was on a mission to convince his fans' parents that he could do more than grind his pelvis. So nearly every Elvis single would have a soft, sentimental tune ("That's When Your Heartaches Begin") on the flip side of a rockin' hit ("All Shook Up"). His movies balanced the uptempo songs with a few mellow ones ("Love Me Tender," "Young and Beautiful," "Blue Hawaii"). Later, some of his biggest hits were emotive reworkings of plaintive folk songs from Italy ("Sorrento" became "It's Now or Never") or France ("Plaisir...
...BEST KNOWN AS THE guru who launched Nancy Sinatra's career by writing and producing the racy, iconic tune These Boots Are Made for Walkin', a No. 1 hit for Sinatra in 1966. Yet a decade earlier, the work of Lee Hazlewood (below) was drawing attention from a young Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia...