Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: By lacing his small town twang with urban soul, Mellencamp brews an all-American sound...
...BOTTOM LINE: By lacing his small town twang with urban soul, Mellencamp brews an all-American sound...
...Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a Hoosier who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...
TELEVISION Conan O'Brien brings a fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track...
...Goodbye, he sings a duet with Wynonna Judd, who draws out an emotional edge in his ! voice. On Happiness Alone, Black and co-writer Jimmy Buffet turn the usual country formula inside out, creating a refreshing pop song with just an echo of country twang: "A man can't survive on happiness alone...