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Without a Song
Without a Song, Willie Nelson's latest adventure in standards land, is a tame safari. In ten slow and sentimental ballads, Nelson circles his prey laconically, drawing a bead on love with his slow, Southern nasality but never shooting to kill. The familiar vocal hesitations and throat-catchings are all in place, but straightforward readings of these […]
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Farewell Song
Even if Janis Joplin isn't around to defend herself or collect royalties, she's far luckier than most gone-but-still-under-contract stars, because Farewell Song, her "new" LP, is a good record. Unfortunately, Joplin joins the ranks of artists whose work has been exhumed in an orgy of necrophilia that does neither rock & roll nor its aficionados […]
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