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...Most of the music is country (Keith Urban, Luke Combs, now Beyoncé) but not all of it (Ed Sheeran, Stevie Nicks). Since it’s choreographed, it’s easy for non-dancers to get involved....
...What I’m interested to see is if that conversation is going to persist now that we know that Cowboy Carter is not traditional country music....
...Stylised as “Blackbiird”, it shows that there’s more going on in Cowboy Carter than just country music....
...Lilah’s joined by the FT’s music critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and US labour and equality correspondent Taylor Nicole Rogers to chat about the album. We love hearing from you....
...Deep down in a press release about Universal Music and little-known investor Dundee acquiring songs owned by the private equity group, it was put plainly: “KKR will exit [its music catalogue] Chord upon...
...Other big releases this year have included Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter which earned 407,000 first-week sales and Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine which debuted with 227,000....
...As the album progresses, the opening chords of “Starlight” gain a softer edge and the sparse lines of “Aeon” thicken at angles and never resolve....
...The two-chord vamp of “Resonance” came next, the title track of their previous release, then the boppish twists of “Helix”, from the earlier album Molecular....
...Opening with spiky, threatening chords, it leapt through riffs on everything from prog rock to Weimar expressionism....
...“Less western” here meant less tethered to the chord structures derived from the Great American Songbook on which jazz players had hitherto based their improvisations....
...Lainey Wilson said last year: “It’s like everybody, all of a sudden, is wanting a horse and wanting to wear a cowboy hat.” The music business has indeed noticed....
...Scofield, imperious and inventive, had the final say, and signalled the evening’s end with a single crunchy chord. ★★★★☆ ronniescotts.co.uk...
...But now the music is more assured. The album begins with pianist Moran introducing “End of Innocence” with a sequence of moody chords and Shabaka pensive on clarinet....
...Each summer, the Louth Contemporary Music Society hosts a festival devoted to new music....
...In “R&B”, singer Lily Fontaine contrasts the style of music she’s expected to write as a mixed-race woman, the titular R&B, with the music she wants to write....
...The song began life as a chord sequence created by James Wirrick, Sylvester’s guitarist....
...I write so much music on there. It’s a way to put together all those expensive chords. I’m talking about chords with flat nines and 13s; I’m talkin’ half-diminished with dominant sevens....
...But then, James Keay throws in an unexpected piano chord, like a sudden dark cloud crossing the sun....
...The following evening, our last in Cowtown, we decided to stomp our boots around a proper Texan honky-tonk (rough translation: a bar with live country music)....
...Segall is from the three-chords-and-the-truth school of punk enlightenment. His guitar-playing actually involves more than those fabled three chords: he is an agile and imaginative musician....
...This time she’s attracted the ire of Beyoncé, who has rewritten the country hit with a twist on her new album Cowboy Carter....
...The all-original set opens with pianist Brad Mehldau introducing “Dream of Home” with a short spray of sparsely voiced chords....
...That chord was perfectly balanced in intonation and timbres, but more Ravel than Mahler....
...Perhaps live music would be her Achilles heel, the moment it all goes a bit Inspector Clouseau for PinkPantheress. The handbag made a return for her Ally Pally show....
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