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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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