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...number of duets - six - between George Jones and Melba Montgomery. Of course, Jones' best-known singing partner was his third wife, Tammy Wynette, with whom he had such hits as "Golden Ring" and "We're Gonna Hold On," but it is with Montgomery that he found his most ideal vocal foil. Even George is on the record as saying...
...course, "wet, hard funk" has a way of piling up on itself, a tendency that a well-placed vocal mix can alleviate. Maas was often a bit stingy in this department; although he was quite an affable presence in the DJ booth, the same personal touch of vocals would have provided an interesting counterpoint to his occasional minimalist proclivities. The set was generally straightforward and built around the usual throbbing 4/4 rhythms (Maas had promised earlier that evening that his set would be "a bit rougher" than his in-store performance at Allston's Sound Factory), but he threw...
...perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that "Beatin' the Heat," his first studio outing in 26 years, has the same timeless quality as the rest of his work. What is suprising is how little he has changed, and how good he still sounds: Plying the breezy vocal style and easygoing, melodic swing flavor that characterized such '70s gems as "Striking It Rich" and "Last Train to Hicksville," Hicks seems remarkably sharp for a guy whose only recorded output since 1974 was a little-noticed live album six years...
...Hicks and the Hot Licks rather than His Hot Licks - and the album is studded with guest appearances from Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, Brian Setzer, Ricki Lee Jones and Tom Waits. But worthy though their contributions may be, they are mostly window dressing; Midler's terrific vocal on "Strike It While It's Hot" notwithstanding, nothing here really needs the star wattage to justify it. Hicks has written a batch of tunes as strong as any he's ever recorded; along with the Midler duet highlights include "My Cello," "I Don't Want Love" and the revved-up "Meet...
...these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays a group of robins in typical feeding postures on the ground. Beneath the artwork, Sibley presents a detailed description of robins' vocal behavior ("Call varies from a low, mellow pup or a sharp, clucking, often doubled piik to a sharper, rapid, urgent series kli quiquiquiqui koo..."). All this for what is probably the most easily recognized bird in North America...