Music: A Sorrowful Lucinda Williams
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The songs on her new album deal with the death of her mother and the breakup of a love affair--and thatâs the good news.
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Five newly discovered short plays by  Tennessee Williams are shedding light on the troubled life of  one of America's greatest playwrights more than 20 years after  he died in a hotel room surrounded by wine bottles and pills.
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Tom Scholz, the chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston, has written to Mike Huckabee, complaining of his use of the groupâs 1976 song âMore Than a Feelingâ in his presidential campaign without permission, The Associated Press reported. A former band member, Barry Goudreau, has played the song with Mr. Huckabee at campaign events. Mr. Scholz, who supports Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, for president, objects to the implication that the band has endorsed the candidacy of Mr. Huckabee, a Republican. âYou have taken something of mine and used it to promote ideas to which I am opposed,â Mr. Scholz wrote. âIn other words, I think Iâve been ripped off, dude!â In response, Fred Bramante, who was chairman of Mr. Huckabeeâs New Hampshire primary campaign, said: âGovernor Huckabee plays âSweet Home Alabama.â Does that mean Lynyrd Skynyrd is endorsing him?â.
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In âBook of Longing,â Philip Glass illuminates Leonard Cohenâs poetry with a chamber score that breathes naturally and gracefully.
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Never mind the Bruce Springsteen-led Vote for Change movement, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, punkvoter.com or even the two "Rock Against Bush" albums. The most thought-provoking  musical statement made this election year just might be a CD of heartbreakingly beautiful songs for babies.
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This interesting documentary focuses on the sad state of the music business.
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Veteran audio engineer Tony Bongiovi, who once worked with Jimi Hendrix, has been disappointed for decades that the equipment most people used to listen to music couldn't replicate the high-quality sound heard in the studio.
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A bronchial infection forced Faith Hill to withdraw from a MusiCares tribute to Aretha Franklin. "I am devastated and deeply disappointed," the 40-year-old country singer said in a statement late Thursday.
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For an upbeat guy, Alan Jackson sure sings a lot of sad songs. About half the 12 tracks on his new album "What I Do," set for release Tuesday, deal with lost love or loneliness.
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When Ashley Abernathy was nine years old and suffering from leukemia, her spirits were lifted by a serenade from rock star David Lee Roth. The former Van Halen frontman recorded a heart-rending tune especially for Ashley.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio One heavy metal music fan says the shooting death of the guitarist known as &quot;Dimebag&quot; -- Darrell Abbott -- marks the worst day in the music&#39;s history.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done
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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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Morning Raga drags on with painful predictability.
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New releases from Spoon, Smashing Pumpkins, Maria Schneider and Against Me!
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The grumpy disposition that Serena Williams displayed after her loss to Justine Henin was a little jarring considering she had her own lack of preparation to blame for giving in so easily.
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Neil Young has a pessimistic message: Music has lost its power to change the world.