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Re: lag time
On 1 Oct 1996, rousseau d'igou wrote, regarding vocalists extraordinaire:
> : or are they all singing newfangled country music?
>
> whatdoyoumeanbythat?
>
> lyle lovett comes closest in my current mind to what i am thinking.
i'm with you here; what i was referring to was new country music, which,
to me, sounds like a voice and a bunch of "oom-pah"s behind it. which
sounds, to my ears, like music composed *for* (if, perhaps, not "around")
a voice.
> and, no, harry,connick,jr. is not even in the ballpark, alan.
glitz. flash-in-the-pan. making $$ on nostalgia. yup, ri.
> "is that janis joplin?" she asked, and i hesitated, in
> wonder; how did she know janis? "yes, it is," i said, and i waited, less
> elated, but still confident. "it's really too bad she died so young; she
> had quite a remarkable voice, didn't she? i wonder what she could have
> done with more experience."
you shoulda remembered to ask her for the secrets to life. i bet she
knew 'em.
hoping, me too-
xo-
c
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