Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technique is always at the service of a sophisticated musical imagination that can make the instrument sound as if it were born to play jazz. Unlike a guitar, a banjo cannot sustain a note for very long. ("Pop, ping, and then it's gone," Fleck says.) Yet on his ballad Sunset Road, Fleck creates an illusion of satiny, legato plangency. If you want one word for the album, call it mellow. Says Tony Trischka, his former teacher: "Bela Fleck is making the banjo safe for mass consumption...
...just released second album debuted in one trade publication at the very top of the charts. Her first single, a rhapsodic rendering of Prince's ballad Nothing Compares 2 U, is also a runaway hit, currently No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100 and threatening to scale the peak. No wonder she can title her album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Easy for her to say. It looks very much like Sinead (say it Shin-aid) O'Connor will have...
...every musical is gutsy enough to make its big ballad the first words an audience hears, or to introduce both its other showstopper tunes within the next 20 or so minutes. But then few composers have the confidence in the spectator -- or maybe it's just the chutzpah -- to recycle the same few melodies over and over, in endless allusive variations, for nearly three hours...
...patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look him in the eyes, and you have to trust him," says Tyler motel clerk Boris Johnson. "There's nothing phony. He speaks common sense...