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...types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
Santikhiri is the place to go for an escape, not for a hill-tribe adventure. "Most of our guests are happy to enjoy the cherry blossoms and the fresh air, walk in the hills and eat some good Chinese food," says Lui Pao-hong, with an American twang. Lui runs the Mae Salong Resort, a smattering of no-frills bungalows tucked between towering pines, and he sports the perpetual smile of those who have found their calling. For reservations call...
...inimitable persona is emblazoned across the album, in every aspect, but most particularly his literally peerless voice. Though “Joy” definitely owes something to U2’s rediscovery of feel-good anthems, Jagger’s old-school inflection and nasal twang a la Billy Corgan gives the chorus “Jump for joy” a strut that Bono seems almost incapable of these days. “Hide Away” is so infused with trademark Jagger-swagger it would turn new-found fan Britney green. Jagger alternates between wailing like...
...even Lynne's vaunted Alabama twang is much in evidence on this dead-center-of-the-road pop record. The down-home girl has hooked up with city-boy studio wiz Glen Ballard, producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, and put her big, gritty voice to work for his more-is-more orchestrations. Both for better and for worse, her vocals have become the icing on his sugary vanilla layer cake of strings, guitars, keyboards and marching-band drum fills. His adornments make some of Lynne's performances, like a cover of John Lennon's Mother, feel dipped...
...same way, the subtle twang of the banjo is linked inextricably to the idea of Wilco. To be sure, the banjo isn’t featured on all of Wilco’s tracks, but it remains their most distinctive feature, and the cornerstone of their unique no-depression, “alt-country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable...