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Folds played a fantastic concert last summer with Rufus Wainwright and Guster in New York’s Central Park. The singer-songwriter consistently engaged his audience from behind the keys, at times conducting them to hum the orchestral parts missing during his performances of old Five songs. But there’s nothing engaging, and certainly nothing to sing along with, on Super D, which only includes three Folds originals. Instead, the ever-innovative pianist tries his hands at addressing the demand for a metal piano arrangement of the Darkness’s “Get Your Hands...
...Caught Fire,” “Yesterday’s Feelings” and “Light With a Sharpened Edge,” are those that place in the foreground the lyrics that build this theme of transient life. On the other hand, when lead singer Bert McCracken belts out “I’m not listening” for 25 piercing seconds at the end of “Listening,” it does little to contribute to the album’s lyrical drive and at the same time repels listeners...
...last three records, takes the mic here only on two tracks. Kid Rock also guest-stars but is unable to save the album’s sonically limited vocals. It’s not that Shepherd has an atrocious voice; he just isn’t a singer and would be better giving his attention to composing more compelling tunes. He himself says, “My songs have always been highly personal, but the last thing I wanted to do was sacrifice my sound for the sake of singing lead vocals. It just took awhile for them to match...
Last month, the Harvard Lampoon presented their Wheelwright Award to the famous rhythm-and-blues singer James Brown for his “outstanding contributions to human life.” It seems the revered publication has sunk to a new low, by lauding, however facetiously, the so-called “contributions” of a man who faced and pleaded no contest to criminal charges of domestic violence just this past January.If Brown had assaulted a random woman on the street, society would brand him a dangerous man. Even the Lampoon would not honor someone seen...
Whitmire said her ideal speaker is country singer Tim McGraw...