Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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Battered and deep-fried wasn't enough for "A Love Song for Bobby Long." So smothered in self-conscious Southern gothic, the film feels as if it's been drowned in gravy without even the benefit of a biscuit on the side to sop it all up.
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The breezy vocal harmonies and classic rock sound of Dr. Dog, an obscure Philadelphia band, are sure to attract a rabid cult of indie-rock fans.
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A new documentary sets Toots Shorâs rise and long, sad decline against the backdrop of 20th-century American social history.
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Charlie Manuel's thick Southern drawl, down-home charm and folksy nature make him an odd fit for gritty Philadelphia.
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The documentary âShowBusinessâ makes one marvel at the stamina of artists who devote themselves to a world of many miseries and few rewards.
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Music may still be a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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When singer Bryan Ferry was a  university student, he didn&#39;t really care much for Bob Dylan,  preferring the sounds of American soul and Motown.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Maybe OutKast should've done a reality show instead of a movie.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson" led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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The performers are not stars, but the price is competitive.
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Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, producers of studio films like the âIndiana Jonesâ trilogy, are moving into more indie territory.
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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From Hawaii to the Philadelphia suburbs, community sings, or singalongs, draw together the average-voiced and bring old songs into common memory.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Students at Salem College, a small liberal arts school for women in Winston-Salem, N.C., have studied the songs of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.  Now they're delving into country singer Martina McBride's catalog.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson"  led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent  Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the  Oscars.