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...beneath this skin”), and, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s fabled exhortation, he pleads to the Lord to “make me pure, but not yet.” Backed up by a strumming guitar, Williams sounds like a British Tom Petty, minus that trademark Southern twang. The power ballad gets a glossy makeover on “Intensive Care” with “Spread Your Wings,” a song that is more fitting for a Lifetime movie of the week. With cliché lyrics like “Spread your wings before...
...Listen,” Andrew said a few minutes later, breaking the silence. “Do you hear that?” A deep country twang rattled from an overhead speaker. It was Toby Keith’s “As Good As I Once Was”—and it was, apparently, Matt and Andrew’s absolute favorite. In the song, Keith faces a series of demanding challenges. For instance, twin sisters named Betty Sue and Bobby Jo ask him to join them in a threesome. “My body says...
Country radio, I learned, is simultaneously the most fun and the most embarrassing music to sing along to in public. To do it, one must let go of all pride, adopt a serious twang, and periodically howl. Often, the words one must howl are ‘country’ or ‘love,’ but in one currently popular case, ‘alcohol.’ In three years living together, Matt and Andrew have suffered greater embarrassments. They howl with pride...
...years on, it was a way of revisiting a time he remembers as "our high point, our year on the edge ... Days when we edged along rope bridges spanning churning rivers; or listened to funeral chants floating over the hills, to screams and gunshots and battle cries, the twang of taut bowstrings, the phtt of arrows fired in anger and passing close by." The result, Making 'Black Harvest' (ABC Books; 296 pages), reveals a talent for lyrical narrative that matches his cameraman's eye for detail...
Willie Nelson Rebel Roots: Abbott, Texas Reggae Sound: On his July release, Countryman, Nelson covers Jimmy Cliff with twang. Island Cred: Says cannabis should be legal and shared on the tour...