Music
The mainstream country trappings of the Oak Ridge Boys have obscured their crowning achievement: they helped bring the white gospel quartet tradition to the pop charts.
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Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.
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A listener’s response to this album would largely depend on whether or not the sound of Jeff Denson’s voice and the instrumentation strike a chord.
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Even after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.
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“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”
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Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.
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The players are striking out into the unknown: you may find the journey inspiring and you may sometimes find yourself lost in the woods.
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Rarely in my experience has Ives’s visionary score sounded so fired with purpose.
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Composer/pianist Anthony Coleman’s meticulous crafting made every second worthwhile.
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