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...I hear the muffled voice of a morning news anchor in the background. Clance apologises. She has inadvertently turned on her TV....
...Her voice, with its characteristic Appalachian drawl, never changed. Petite and slim, she bounced on stage and hopped about during up tempo numbers....
...Their being siblings is the heart of First Aid Kit, not just for the sisters but for their audience too — the sound of two voices perfectly in tune with one another....
...Her voice swings remembering the national fervour Vance’s memoir-cum-diatribe, Hillbilly Elegy, caused as coastal liberals struggled to comprehend the origins of a Trump presidency....
...Instruments such as banjo and mountain dulcimer are borrowed from Appalachian folk songs, while a foreboding church organ looms over “I Who Bend the Tall Grasses”....
...In the other corner are Appalachian families, often driven to opioids by grinding work in coal mines....
...Recuperating the past is a recurrent theme in her songs, whose style is influenced by the old-time sounds of Appalachian country music....
...Our setting, a narrator informs us with a cornbread-and-ashtray drawl, is the Appalachian hamlet of Knockemstiff, Ohio. At this point, you may protest. The voice, all right. But Knockemstiff?...
...The opening title track, about the Napoleonic Wars, opens with guitars and voices in multiple harmonies, but then a low sax line from Michael Lewis murmurs upwards to darken the mood....
...The second is a plate of ravioli containing ramps — a wild leek found in the nearby Appalachian mountains....
...Maybe “technology lessons” will enter the lexicon of euphemisms alongside “Ugandan discussions” and “hiking the Appalachian Trail”....
...Influences range from left-field jazz to Appalachian hymns, the interactive flow is exhilarating, and the band are consistent throughout....
...Newby’s comic touch, meanwhile, relied on his engagingly autobiographical style, and by placing himself centre stage — as a hapless anti-hero — he brought a new voice to the genre....
...The gruff-toned, note-slurring Lovano and the spiky-but-brittle Douglas are contrasting lead voices....
...Rock’n’roll challenged racial segregation, rock music protested against the Vietnam war, disco promoted sexual liberation, hip-hop gave voice to people of colour, and so on....
...Collins’s now deepened voice knits together everything from Cajun and Appalachian songs to Orlando Gibbons....
...The young scholar wrote a letter to The Voice, the regional paper, which goes to the heart of the area’s future....
...For the first four minutes of the song, Plant’s voice wraps around Jimmy Page’s acoustic guitar and multi-tracked recorders played by John Paul Jones. Then, John Bonham’s drums reinforce the beat....
...While small compared with the US labour force of 161m, the jobs are heavily concentrated in the Appalachian region and a few western states, giving the miners a voice and their plight political prominence...
...Nolte, playing ex-alcoholic pal Stephen Katz, is the actor with the life-battered features and voice like a multiple car crash. No change there then....
...textures, with, at one point, Devin Hoff’s bowed bass duetting with Dina Maccabee’s viola in a kind of spooky scrape-off, and, during “Vasquez”, the two instruments combining again to create a kind of Appalachian...
...On stage with Dylan four years later, the purity of her voice was challenged by Dylan’s wheezing harmonica, which nags around the singing like an importunate lover cajoling and mocking....
...Since context is often key to any performance, it perhaps made sense to experience Aho’s piece as essentially a relationship between two voices emerging initially in a brotherly tussle and gradually forming...
...From the opening notes of “Where Will I Be”, with the skittering drumbeat of a marching band refusing to yield and a plaintive Appalachian Gospel holler from Harris, the band ran through Wrecking Ball in...
...It schooled him in a rich heritage of work songs, sea shanties, rural blues, Appalachian hill music and protest ballads....
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