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In the key of life/a review
Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics by Alicia Keys, G.P Putnam's Sons, December 2004, $19.95, ISBN 0-399-15257-1 This work is a curious ......(Continue Reading) The lord's songs in a strange land; two histories dig down to the roots of gospel music and the culture of sound in African American life
People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music by Robert Darden Continuum International Publishing Group October 2004, $24.95, ISBN 0-826-41436-2 ......(Continue Reading)My sweet bore: explaining a former beatle's artistic slide. - Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison - book review
As a longtime George Harrison fan--I am surely one of the five or six people in America who bought his 1982 turkey Gone Troppo upon its release--I studied ......(Continue Reading)Northern lights: Peter Conrad is dazzled by two new recordings of Scandinavian songs
In Stockholm or Helsinki at this time of year, the sun sceptically peeps over the horizon in mid-morning, hovers at roof level for a while and hurts ......(Continue Reading)Pop: Songs in the key of real life
Woody Guthrie had a maxim for aspiring songwriters: "You should be able to look at a newspaper and write a song." Neil Young, the son of a journalist ......(Continue Reading)
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