Word: twangs
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Here is a Stanley Hauerwas story. Hauerwas was debating a medical researcher who was defending experiments on fetal tissue. "What if it were discovered that fetal tissue were a delicacy?" Hauerwas asked with his trademark Texas twang. "Could...
...music reflects her itinerant upbringing: her album has some elements of hip-hop (it was mixed by Commissioner Gordon, who also worked on Lauryn Hill's hip-hop masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), but it also features some rock-'n'-roll guitars and a bit of country twang. "I'm a soul singer," says Seger. "But I like to rock...
...Grand Guy" makes it clear that Southern's finest creation was himself. The small-town Texan essentially reinvented himself after serving in WWII (he took part in the Battle of the Bulge), and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to study at the Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
Lost Highway, which was launched by Universal Music earlier this year, wants to reconnect country to its roots. Luke Lewis, the president and founder of the label, says today's country music has siphoned off the "twang and pain" that made the genre meaningful and distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted...
...Broadway musical of the spring, "Tom Sawyer." But this kid-friendly adaptation of the Mark Twain story, if not quite the "Saturday Night Live" parody its ubiquitous ads promised ("Hey, Tom Sawyer!"), is a second-rate refugee from summer stock. Don Schlitz has written music with a country twang but cornball lyrics ("He?s full of that old scratch /Impossible to catch"), and the odd, earth-toned sets make this Mississippi River town look like something the Pharoahs built. The show does rev up some lively melodrama in the second act, with an exciting cave climax that kids might enjoy...