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Right away, the music feels good. Make no mistake, this is not feel-good music. But you agree with vocalist John McCrea, accepting what the guitar has to say, the lyrics and everything else about the music. Whether McCrea is accusatory, contemplative or in love, he always fits. He takes his time and saunters through "Guitar" and "Mexico," a slow, soft and charming waltz that takes your hand and asks you to dance. The very first track, "Satan is my Motor," is sweet and funky at the same time; it's all you need to be happy for three minutes...
Throughout the show, Mathus often altered his singing, souping up the band's current hit "The Suits Are Picking Up the Bill" and simply messing around on the hopping "Bad Businessman." Maxwell, the primary vocalist on several of the songs, preferred to growl or even scream lyrics as often and loud as he could, culminating in an almost violent (and thoroughly entertaining) rendition of "Hell," the band's calypso-styled mega-hit from...
Although previous albums and much of the show focused on the obnoxious and passionate vocalist and guitarist Kevin Griffin, their new album, How Does Your Garden Grow?, displays the talents of bassist Tom Drummond and drummer Travis McNabb. In "One More Murder," the first single off the new album and on the X-Files summer movie soundtrack, Griffin's vocals are restrained and the guitar is absent for much of the song. Drummond and McNabb combine for some funky bass lines and techno beats, which are also prevalent on the first track, "Je ne m'en Souviens pas." More than...
Jazz musicians are also beginning to grapple with the wealth of potential standards written after 1960, an off-and-on trend renewed in earnest a few years ago when vocalist Cassandra Wilson turned the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville into a torchy, caramelized ballad nearly worthy of Billie Holiday. Herbie Hancock followed with The New Standard, an entire album of rock-era tunes in which he improvised on changes derived from the Beatles, Sade and Kurt Cobain, among others. Joshua Redman's forthcoming Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) (Warner Bros.) covers similar ground, with songs by Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder...
...This vocalist had the misfortune to come of age in the early '60s, just when male jazz singers were going out of style. Unrecorded for 22 years, Bey, now 58, issued a comeback CD, Ballads, Blues and Bey, in 1996. On this follow-up, he makes dramatic use of his four-octave range against spare but inventive arrangements of tunes from the further reaches of the great American songbook. On ballads, Bey's voice can have a humanizing tightness, a vulnerability that draws a listener in. But when the tempo quickens he can really belt it out: the New York...