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...traditional instruments—mandolin, banjo, accordion—and a lot of our songs are about traveling,” Warren says. One of her original goals was to create a 12-song concept album with each track featuring a different city. Though she did not achieve the feat, she says the influence of that idea is nonetheless evident on the Great Unknowns’ debut...
...sight of the cherub-faced troubadour serenely strumming alongside his troupe of happy horn players, bell-ringers and la-la-laaing singers (all of them friends, and all of them shockingly gorgeous) isn’t one of the most convincing displays of transcendence-by-banjo, just check out the congregation. At the Middle East club last Sunday, there was none of that self-conscious swaying-and-chanting stuff, but there was ample staring and a lot of smiling. The cynical, pierced ears of all the emo kids were melting...
...been making since the oboe in middle school, since the dog days of “Readers Digest renderings of famous classical works.” If he’s not writing arrangements for his new album on the piano, he’s tuning his banjo or tapping a beat on the computer, an instrument he learned could be “really musical.” Evidence can be found on his electro-acoustic opus, “Enjoy Your Rabbit,” which he recorded while getting his masters in writing at the New School...
...lately been enduring more lasting indignities. In naming her newborn daughter Apple, GWYNETH PALTROW joined a host of stars saddling their children with quirky monikers. Geena Davis has just given birth to twin boys Kian and Kaiis, Helen Hunt bore girl MaKena lei Gordon, Rachel Griffiths christened a son Banjo Patrick, Jason Lee had boy Pilot Inspektor, and Cedric the Entertainer welcomed daughter Lucky Rose. And the august-sounding Roman appears to be the new Jack--Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing chose it for their sons this year. How will Mary-Louise Parker's son ever be able to hold...
...endures the recording process. "But I don't enjoy playing live very much," he says. "I don't like being stared at for an hour and a half while I'm unable to take a trip to the loo." The Magnetic Fields (which consists of Merritt, guitarist--banjo player John Woo, drummer Claudia Gonson and cellist Sam Davol, plus occasional accordionist Daniel Handler, a.k.a. author Lemony Snicket) will tour briefly in support of I, but Merritt is increasingly focused on composing for film and theater. He wrote songs for last fall's Katie Holmes movie, Pieces of April...