Sheryl Crow
?Feels Like Home?
(Warner Bros.)
3 stars
Country loves a hard-luck story. Seemingly any pop star whose career poops out can get a second shot by going south.
Witness the Nashville-based fallback plans of artists like Michael Kors Crossbody Bag Lionel Richie, Darius Rucker, Aaron Lewis, John Fogerty and, now, Sheryl Crow.
For the last seven years, Crow has owned a sprawling estate near Nashville. But her music boasts an even longer connection to Music Row. Pedal steel guitars laced key earlier arrangements. And 10 years ago, Crow and Kid Rock enjoyed a huge, worthy country smash, the pining Top Five ballad ?Picture.?
Sheryl Crow?s new music embraces Nashville style, and features collaborations with several of its top musicians.
More importantly, the twangy sound we used to call country long ago receded in Nashville, replaced by the same 1970s-based, sun-kissed soft rock that made Crow famous.
Even so, Crow made a few key changes, and hired some important help, to squeeze into the Nashville of now. She co-wrote many songs helped by scribes embedded in the scene, like Brad Paisley, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally. While Crow always had a feel for the personal stories that country prizes, here she chose simpler scenarios ? ones in strong contrast to her earlier style.
The first hit of Crow?s career, ?All I Wanna Do,? took a bohemian view of inebriation, recalling the flights of poet Charles Bukowski. The new ?We Oughta Be Drinkin? ? cuts right to the chase: ?Well it sure feels like/we oughta be drinkin?!,? the chorus blurts.
The same song makes sure to shoehorn in bits of local Michael Kors Python color, like ?feel like we?re living in a country song? or ?roll a big fat one and watchin? ?Nashville? alone.?
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Similarly, ?Nobody?s Business? goes for the cliche of small-town small-mindedness, ?Homecoming Queen? mines that hoary staple about the town?s prettiest girl who?s losing her looks, while ?Best of Times? puts in the kind of rah-rah plug for ?the big red, white and blue? that Crow would never have floated in Hollywood.
The self-consciousness of it all can make ?Home? feel like color-by-numbers country. But Crow?s melodies prove tidy and compelling enough to balance that out. There?s Michael Kors Python Handbag a rock zip to ?Shotgun,? a down-to-earth charm in ?Easy? and a great yearn to ?Call Me When I?m Lonely.? These songs suit pop playlists as sweetly as Nashville?s.
Still, the CD finds its most interesting moments in songs that evoke something antique. The aforementioned ?Drinkin' ? apes the eccentric sound of Bobbie Gentry, while ?Waterproof Mascara? goes for heart-tugging story lines, and weepy sound, of the genre?s gingham past. Ironically, they?re too country for current Nashville, but they prove Crow is not just a carpetbagger. Here, she has a second home.
Nine Inch Nails
?Hesitation Marks?
(Columbia Records)
4 stars
Dayve Ward
Nine Inch Nails? latest album
Clicks and pings, squeaks and scrapes. The music of Nine Inch Nails stitches together scraps of sound, needling bits that build Michael Kors Fashion to something big.
Together, these disparate textures create a landscape meant to make your mind ruminate and roam. This Michael Kors Stores is ?head music? of the darkest kind ? and never has it had more resonance.
?Hesitation Marks,? the first CD that lead Nail Trent Reznor has released under the band?s brand in five years, houses his most detailed, evocative and subconsciously attuned music since his peak, 1994?s ?The Downward Spiral.?
The latest work measures the growth Reznor gained from projects like ?The Social Network? soundtrack, which earned him a deserved Oscar in 2010. As on that disc, a new cut like ?Come Back Haunted? has an insular focus and an antisocial sense of menace. But it also has a beat hard enough to peak a club.
Even a more shrouded and shy piece like ?Disappointed? has a rhythm brisk enough to make you move. It?s found both in a gelatinous synthesizer and in clacking percussion, which seem to float on a wholly different plane.
Nine Inch Nails? music has always had three dimensions. It surrounds and embraces a listener. That?s especially important, given how Reznor rarely varies his melodies. He?s still using the same sing-song structures he forged in the early ?90s ? though, by his standards, he has expanded some.
The tune in ?Everything? comes as close to pop as Reznor is likely to get. But he doesn?t Michael Kors Handbag Sale need such things to entrance us. In Reznor?s itchy synths and puckered rhythms, he creates a nightmare world from which we don?t want to wake.
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Santonio Holmes, who talked down his recovery all preseason, said Tuesday that he was frustrated that he wasn?t allowed to play more in Sunday?s game against the Bucs. Asked how he felt after the game health-wise, Holmes said, ?I survived.?
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The 18-month-old plummeted 12 feet into a net 10 a.m. Tuesday after the drugs kicked in and he couldn't hold on to his branch any longer.
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Horrifying surveillance footage shows the moment a man was brutally beaten with glass bottles "for fun" by a trio of thugs.
Graphic images circulated by New Orleans Police Department sees the victim being subjected to the apparently motiveless attack as he walked home last Sunday morning.
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Cops say they don?t know why three men brutally beat this victim, leaving his face disfigured.
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The victim, who was left severely injured and his face disfigured, still had his cell phone and cash after the beating, police said.
They continue the vicious assault, slamming the glass into his head and face and stomping him, before walking away.
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"Ironically, this demonstration revealed that when a crime occurs in the community, we never know who will be watching."
Two Detroit cops told Fox News that a disaster was narrowly avoided.
"It's a tragedy waiting to happen, Lt. Chuck Flannagan said. "In fact, I understand an FBI agent did pull a weapon because he didn't believe it was a staged, and some officers had to run forward to prevent him from possibly shooting an officer."
Inspector Shawn Gargalino told the station that simulated crime exercises were "a tragedy waiting to happen."
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