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...Grammy nominations are in - and they show just how out of it the Grammys really are. There are some welcome nods on the list - the alternative country singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne got a well-earned nomination for best new artist, as did neo-soul cult star Jill Scott, and the British art-rock band Radiohead got a nomination for album of the year for its brilliant "Kid A." But it's too bad the Grammy folks saw fit to reward Eminem with an album of the year nod for his middling "The Marshall Mathers LP." First...
...time when the tag 'singer-songwriter' was about as common as 'lady surgeon,' [the artist's] warm, croaking delivery often vaulted him up the charts...
...presages by many years his hits about Folsom and San Quentin prisons. (Of course, I'll always forgive Cash for such lapses because of his oft-quoted quote about Jones, with whom he spent many a misspent mile on the road in their early careers: "Who's your favorite singer?" Cash is asked. "You mean," he responds, "apart from George Jones...
...urged before that those fans who haven't got this album do so with utmost speed. Like no other compilation, its 48 tracks, ranging from the mid-'50s to the early '60s, show the development of the Possum from a derivative honky-tonker to the world's best country singer. It's being purveyed by your nearest Internet dealer, though without the booklet described above, which was only included in a "Limited Collector's Edition," since sold out. It'll still be worth your while...
...auction of Maria Callas' personal effects, all of the soprano's underwear was bought by a former singer, who vowed to burn the items "to save the dignity and honor" of the opera legend...