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JAMES MCMURTRY: TOO LONG IN THE WASTELAND (Columbia). A fine debut album that fixes a bleary, jaundiced eye on the back roads and byways of small-town life. McMurtry turns a lyric with irony and precision, even if his voice can't carry a tune as far as the barn door...
Same old story. A unique gift, a fresh voice, a knack for psychic immolation. When Rickie Lee Jones broke onto the scene with her surprising and successful 1979 debut album, she seemed to signal a fresh trail for rock. But uncertainty and self-destruction crowded close. An equivocal second album was followed by an enterprising third and diminishing commercial returns. Confusion enveloped her, and Jones seemed to lunge toward the flash point. Then she pulled back, in a two-step away from the brink, consolidating and reconsidering her work. With personal turmoil put in perspective, Jones produced a new life...
...should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that he had "no plans...
Freshman Richard Ellman made his varsity debut in fine style with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Rushan Sanarsinghe at the number-six position...
...songs on this album, the first since her 1988 debut, Melissa Etheridge. each tell a story of lost love, dying love or unrequited love. Thankfully, Etheridge's voice is very much up to the task of conveying her emotions through music...