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...decade and a half that Terry Southern enjoyed fame as one of America's pre-eminent satirists, he tackled every "grand theme" he could get his hands on: greed ("The Magic Christian"), politics and war ("Dr. Strangelove"), drugs and youth rebellion ("Easy Rider"), death (the script for "The Loved One"), alienation and the media (the script for "End of the Road"), and, with particular relish, sex (the novels "Candy" and "Blue Movie...
...Fame, so far, doesn't appear to bring many pleasures for the band. "I hate encores, I hate autographs, I hate T-shirts," Jack says succinctly. But at the White Stripes' most recent show in Detroit, the last of three consecutive sold- out performances in the area, the pleasure the crowd took at the two local kids' success was palpable. The bartenders showed up clad in the band's signature red and white, and Jack was able to let the audience take over vocal duties on a few memorable lines. For that matter, it was hard not to be moved...
...White Blood Cells. "It does kind of match all these figures coming at us on the cover." The song "A Little Room," he says, is about how "attention is both good and bad," a theme that runs through the album. A raspy, fifty-second guide to living with fame, the song cautions, "You might have to think of how you got started/Sitting in your little room...
...song Hall of Fame, from his forthcoming album Gravitational Forces, Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen croons, "My songs don't belong on Top 40 radio/I'll keep the old back 40 for my home." The lyrics could easily serve as the slogan of Lost Highway, a new record label that features singer-songwriters like Keen, Lucinda Williams and newcomer Ryan Adams--performers who are too cool for country radio, too country for pop and too headstrong to change their ways. The critically acclaimed Williams, whose new CD, Essence, comes out on Lost Highway this week, calls the label...
...think fame is dangerous. It pigeonholes you, and right now I think I’m limited by my amount of exposure. I still have 40 years left to expose myself,” he laughs...