Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia). This isn't just music; it's American mythology, recorded in the mid-1930s and brought alive for the first time on two CDs. The blues found no deeper mystical expression than in Johnson's composing and singing...
Carlene Carter: I Fell in Love (Reprise). A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse. If country music is still a man's game, Carter is effortlessly bending the rules...
...American Music of Irving Berlin, Dwight Thomas at the Paramount Wurlitzer Organ (Newport Classic). Even on this unlikely instrument, Berlin's melodic invention -- from the infectious Puttin' on the Ritz to the tender Always -- is nonpareil. The sleeper of the year...
Fastest Rush to the Mainstream Rap music began as something def from the ghetto, got sanitized by b-boys like M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, and quickly became a we're-so-hip cliche even on TV commercials. As they say, it's not comin' correct...
Solid-Gold Mogul Music-and-movie hitmaker David Geffen made a shrewd move in April when he sold his record label to MCA for about $550 million of that company's stock. Just seven months later, when Japanese giant Matsushita bought MCA, the value of Geffen's holdings zoomed to $700 million. It's all in the timing...