Despite fundamentalist anger Saudis go to the movies for the first time in 30 years
Asia News
6/10/2009
With a mob of angry extremists an all-male audience watches ‘Menahi’, a movie produced by a nephew of King Abdullah. RIYADH (AsiaNews/Agencies) – For the first time in 30 years last Saturday was movie night in Riyadh. With angry Conservative protesters promising ‘God’s wrath’, more than 300 men ...
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne still making wake-up calls
McClatchy Newspapers
10/29/2008, by Michael Granberry
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - Five years ago, Jackson Browne appeared as a guest star in an episode of "The Simpsons." In an effort to seek his wife's forgiveness, Homer throws a party for Marge and books Browne as the entertainment. Sitting at the piano, the singer announces to a yard full of ...
Dolly Parton remains a down-home treasure
McClatchy Newspapers
10/20/2008, by Jim Abbott
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Dolly Parton is down home, or so I am told. Oh, she absolutely looks that way on TV and in concerts. She's an adorable treasure _ and I mean that!
Like any priceless gem, however, she's encased in a protective setting. At the 2003 opening of her Dixie Stampede in ...
20 questions for … singer-songwriter Ben Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008
PopMatters.com (MCT) - What is it like to grow up surrounded by song? From his famous parents to the company of his sister Sally, who is a singer-songwriter, too, Ben Taylor has been gently rocked into this world, sonic-wise, by music knit right at home and sounds from the world of music that makes ...
Gordon Lightfoot is nearly 70 but has recaptured the life of the working musician
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Judith Newmark
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Here, according to Toronto troubadour Gordon Lightfoot, is what it's like to wake up from a coma: "It's like you've been lying in a great big box _ and suddenly, the box is turned over. My eardrums were crashing, like a cupboard fell over in my head and all the ...
Singer-songwriter Eric Andersen still has a way with words
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Paul Freeman
Palo Alto Daily News (MCT) - More than 40 years after he began enchanting listeners, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen continues to epitomize the modern troubadour. His songs have been recorded by such artists as Judy Collins, Rick Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention and ...
As one of the Eagles, Joe Walsh goes along to get along
McClatchy Newspapers
9/26/2008, by Jon Bream
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh is the anti-Eagle. Make that the anti-ego. You know about the big shots in the Eagles _ Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Purposeful singer-songwriter Henley is the band's conscience; free-spirited singer-songwriter Frey its heart. Bassist ...
Don Henley talks about the Eagles' latest album, his political messages, changes in the industry and more
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Preston Jones
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - If most bands were to go nearly 30 years between albums, they might agonize over the direction and tenor their new music should take, how time has changed them individually and collectively, and whether they will still be considered relevant. For "Long Road Out of ...
Dennis Wilson worked on his own time, by his own rules, and in a life that had much to offer
McClatchy Newspapers
9/17/2008, by Dan MacIntosh
PopMatters.com (MCT) - The late Dennis Wilson is best known for a variety of different personality characteristics. He was the only Beach Boy _ in the world's most famous surf music band, no less _ who actually knew how to surf. Yet this beach-friendly musician ended up drowning. To others, ...
From his Great Depression childhood in Seattle, Quincy Jones dared to dream
Midwest Leadership Institute
9/16/2008, by Paul De Barros
The Seattle Times (MCT) - In the late 1940s, when Quincy Delight Jones lived on 22nd Avenue, just a block from his alma mater, Garfield High School, there was a place they called "the dream window" in the attic, where he and his seven brothers and sisters slept. "We would look out there," recalls ...
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