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STEVE EARLE has never been the sort of country singer who gigs at Republican conventions. He has done time for drug possession, and his music is too rough around the edges to slip into mainstream radio. But now some Nashville conservatives have gone from Earle indifference to rage over his song John Walker's Blues, which is on his upcoming album, Jerusalem. Written from the perspective of the so-called American Taliban, the lyrics include "We came to fight the jihad/ And our hearts were pure and strong." Earle said he doesn't "condone what [Walker] did." But a Nashville...
...builders, steelworkers, factory laborers and migrant workers. Springsteen himself has held exactly one real job. For a few weeks in 1968 when he was 18, he worked as a gardener. But his gift is not horticulture. His great gift--the one that makes him the best rock 'n' roll singer of his era--is empathy. Springsteen doesn't know what a 40-hour workweek feels like, but he knows how a 40-hour workweek makes you feel. "If you roll out of bed in the morning," he says, "even if you're the deepest pessimist or cynic, you just took...
...idea that a single pill might turn back the clock quickly caught the popular imagination. It didn't hurt that the hormone's No. 1 manufacturer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, launched an aggressive marketing campaign. Thank goodness today's spots have been updated to feature the dulcet tones of singer Patti LaBelle and have abandoned patronizing messages like the one in a 1975 ad--"Almost any tranquilizer might calm her down...but at her age, estrogen may be what she really needs...
Perhaps you failed to notice the angry townspeople with pitchforks, the burnings in effigy, the heated debate on talk radio. Or perhaps you merely failed to enter the fantasy life of singer GEORGE MICHAEL, where these images reside. The British singer said last week that he is afraid to return to the home he shares with his partner in the U.S. because of controversy generated by his newest single, Shoot the Dog. The song calls on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to stand up to the militarism of George Bush's war on terror, while the animated video portrays Blair...
...While most DJs use vaguely familiar samples to get a nod of recognition from their listeners, Davis finds familiarity a distraction. On Six Days, one of The Private Press's best tracks, he uses a vocal about the horrors of war from what sounds like a brassy female jazz singer. It's actually a Liverpudlian male psychedelic group from the early '70s sped up to match the song's tempo. If it were, say, Shirley Bassey, the effect would be sabotaged by kitsch. Instead, it's haunting...