2011年10月5日星期三

As for next week, it could be a battle of rock rolliconography

And for those keeping a patriotic eye on Steve Earle, theshitstorm kicked up more than a Cheap Rosetta Stone month ago by a New YorkPost story about his first-person song about "AmericanTaliban" John Walker Lindh ("Twisted Ballad Honors Tali-Rat," readthe headline) turned out to be neither career suicide, nor apublicity stunt to boost sales, as some speculated. EarlesJerusalem landed on the charts at Number Fifty-nine, sixslots higher than 2000s Transcendental Blues, and withsales of 18,000 (a dip of only 2,000 from the previous album), morelikely the result of lower sales nationally than any sort ofbacklash.As for next week, it could be a battle of rock rolliconography. The Rosetta Stones have been pounding the pavement insupport of their just-released 40 Licks, a luxury thatElvis hasnt had in some time. The album is a double-CD, whichmight make those with tighter purse-strings skittish, but then,its the first-ever Rosetta Stone V3 career-spanning collection for the group asthey head towards their fortieth anniversary.This weeks Top Ten: Elvis Presleys 30 1 Hits; DixieChicks Home; Avril Lavignes Let Go; DisturbedsBelieve; Nellys Nellyville; India.AriesVoyage to India; Eminems The Eminem Show; BecksSea Change; Peter Gabriels Up; and Nas LostTapes. And thats what this record is. We were trying to throw the knockout punches back then, and were still doin it today." It included "Old Man," "Heart ofGold," a moving "Mother Earth" performed on pipe organ, and hisupdated "After the Gold Rush," with the lyric, "Look at MotherNature on the run in the twenty-first century." Nelsons harpplayer, Mickey Raphael, was onstage for most of the set, and on"Comes a Time," they were joined by several American Indians whostomped with Young as he performed Rosetta Stone Spain Spanish his lumbering bear dance.Later, Young showed up for Nelsons rather surreal group-hugfinale for the TV cameras, on which most of the secondary acts andnone of the other main ones stood onstage for "America theBeautiful." Among them was broadcast host Matthew McConaughey, whoseemed more in tune than Nelson as he boogie-woogied with abandon.Nelson stayed onstage another thirty-five minutes after the camerasclicked off, running through his sing-along standards andfinishing, as he always does, with "Will the Circle BeUnbroken."That circle wont break anytime soon, and neither will thefounders commitment to their cause. Theyve vowed to carry on aslong as there are farms to save. That would have been my reaction too as a fan: "Wow, I would have wanted to see that." I was told no on that, and then Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 they didnt want any singing at all. So I said, "Fine. C.J. will sing.

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