Word: listenerers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reticent about his personal life (he still lives in Tallahassee), Roberts is evangelical about jazz. "Children don't get a chance to hear much jazz," he says. "If you eat at McDonald's all your life, then you won't like broccoli the first time you taste it." When Roberts...
Rumors that V.S. Naipaul has mellowed are somewhat exaggerated. His testiness seems for the moment to be tempered by weariness. "The mind fills up with so many images," he says, and one is suddenly aware how many of our images of the Third World come from his tightly woven books...
The only time the slowed-down, lovesong style achieves a bearable level on this album is when LL doesn't blabber. On "Two Different Worlds," guest vocalist Cydne Monet has a soft, gentle voice that offers the listener a brief moment of relief from LL's love raps. Thank you...
ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever.
What gives the songs their staying power is their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that...