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...ballads on which they built their early career. Two of the album’s finest tracks, “Even Now” and the moody closer “Hell On the Throat,” excel above the rest due to the naked emotion and simplistic strumming, enhanced only occasionally with a shimmering synth or lonely drum beat. On “Even Now,” Carrabba softly sings, “Even now, I can feel your eyes / Watch me as I strum / Much too late at night / And I always can find you again...
...Sandman’s waiting to deliver me my dream / Guess I’ll lay my head against the elbow and the window / and watch the wheels go.” Then it builds, swept away by M. Ward’s chugging, steam-engine strum and Oberst’s tense splashes of lap steel that lead it into a blazing release. When Jim James’ rich harmonies fan across the track, it’s likes seeing “The Wizard of Oz” go from black-and-white to flaming Technicolor...
...Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum the banjo (and a 12-string Gibson guitar to boot), but Karen Dalton didn’t pen a single track on either of the two albums she managed to record in her lifetime. Fully gripped by the cult of the Singer-Songwriter—the belief that one needed...
...dancers for the Ottoman court, and later for Turks from all walks of life - a tradition captured on-screen in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Their fortunes took a downturn in the 1990s, when their "entertainment houses" - private homes in which gypsy families would cook, strum and dance for wealthy Istanbulites - were shut down on allegations of gambling and prostitution...
...Forum—as when he abandoned the strings altogether and re-envisioned it as a percussion instrument. At other times, Broza’s technical mastery of the instrument was nothing less than unbelievable. For instance, he would sometimes hold down the strings on the fretboard and strum with the same hand...