Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ditto for the girl who interrupts your dining-hall conversations on a weekly basis in order to make everyone sing "Happy Birthday" for one of her two dozen roommates, all of whom you considered to be almost as grating and nauseatingly bouncy as the sing-along leader herself. Just drop me a note giving me the name of anyone you absolutely do not want to see at your reunions, along with the reason why (this is just for my own personal amusement), and you can rest assured that that person will not be invited...
...along with such kindred voices as Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Travis, are part of a kind of neoconservative musical move back to country basics. No outlaw image or firebrand tunes for these folks. They lay down melodies with a light country swing and a tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Good ole country folk sing the evening away in this funny, affectionate off-Broadway look at a Saturday night Bible Belt church meeting circa 1938. "Praise...
...Elvis baggage: a doting mom, a ne'er-do-well dad, a hardscrabble life in Tupelo, Miss., and a heart full of . . . well, fury. Leroy's mad about being poor, mad about his daddy, mad about the kids who laugh at him. He sets out to sing out and show the world. You know the rest. Childress does bring a little something new to the party, though. He has a good ear and a sympathetic eye for poor white life, Southern variety, and a sense of humor about Leroy's raffish relatives. The Kirbys are sort of Saturday-evening Snopeses...
...songbird yearned to sing a love song...