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The first track on Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, "Get Higher," begins with the announcement from a Ronald Reagan impersonator than, unfortunately, there is a marijuana shortage. This is the kind of thing that makes one wonder why the band is bothering to play. But by the time "Reagan" announces that furthermore...
So the album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out...
"Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it...
Despite the fact that all the tunes on Pure Imagination are decades old, these renditions don't come across as dusty or dry; every song sounds like opening night. Reed and his estimable sidemen (bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Gregory Hutchinson) turn the familiarity of these old standards to their...
Reed shouldn't stop here. Pure Imagination, with its light, sweet touch, leaves the listener wanting more. Perhaps he should consider covering songs from some of today's hottest Broadway shows--Rent, Ragtime or The Lion King. When a performer like Reed puts on a show this good, he owes...