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...proof, MacLeish presented a letter Bassett sent to author Whitley Striber 10 months before her meeting with Mack in which Bassett refers to her encounter with UFOs...
...several other young performers are adding a blue tint to their sound. Last month British-born art screecher PJ Harvey released a blues-shaded album, To Bring You My Love; Houston-born rocker Chris Whitley has just come out with the bluesy CD Din of Ecstasy; and this week Chris Thomas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, releases his blues-rap album, 21st Century Blues from da Hood...
...contrast to Harvey, Chris Whitley on Din of Ecstasy is painfully, almost uncomfortably honest: he comes at the listener like a drunk friend at an office party, trapping you in the corner and telling you how terrific your wife is in bed. In Narcotic Prayer, the CD's best track-and one of the better rock songs released this year-Whitley wheezes, "As the party closes-I ain't got a clue/ Red and yellow roses-nipple rings and tattoos." Whitley, 34, builds his songs on blues ideas and catalyzes them with muted electric guitars. He never makes his rock...
Rock is good for rage, lust and protest. But for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. That's why many young musicians are adding a blue tint to new albums such as British-born screecher PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," Houston native Chris Whitley's "Din of Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash...
YALE: Kawahito 5-9 3-5 14; Hunterton 4-14 1-1 9; Rosneck 0-1 0-0 2; Ricketts 3-8 3-4 10; Okonkwoo 5-9 2-3 12; Karazim 1-3 2-5 4; Whitley 0-1 1-2 1; Colson 5-6 1-2 11; Lintz 2-3 5-6 9. TOTALS...