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Charlie Robison
Step Right Up
Lucky Dog Records
Tales of soured life abound on Step Right Up from a singer/song
writer whose ballads twist the simple frustrations of life into sordid
nightmares.
The Preacher stirs the conscience in a narrative on the wages of sin,
lust and infidelity, while “Desperate Times” speaks on just that.
Charlie Robison blends his brazen sentiments with a twangy country
guitar and strong drum beats, making this a contemporary album that embraces traditional coun-
try roots On some tracks, Robison’s wife Emily, a member of the Dixie Chicks, plays banjo and
her bandmate, Natalie Maines, sings a duet with Robison in “The Wedding Song."
This track boasts of the quiet glories of a quiet ceremony “in suburban Seguin’’ and the song’s
•success ndes on Maines’ golden vocals. She could sing about paint peeling and make doves cry.
John 0 Reilly is the most fun track of the album, and also the most raucous. This character
grinds his way from shore to shore across the Atlantic and into the urban squalor of 1930s New
York City, where he encounters the shady side of life as a prize fighter. The song moves to a quick
country beat that fits the lyrical matter well. M
The intensity of Robison s songs seems to come not from the passions he feels in his heart, but
what he deciphers in his head. He takes a topic that might have great emotional meaning but pres
ents it in a calculated arrangement. (Grade: B-)
k —Thomas Phillips
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' are listeningto l SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It prob-
iblydid not make his day.
Clint Eastwood, who used to own
fhat was believed to be the
iation’s largest known hardwood
fee, lost that distinction last week when a new
| O hampion bluegum eucalyptus was discovered in
'etrolia, roughly 200 miles north of Eastwood's
larmel home.
I ^ astwo °d s bluegum eucalyptus took first place
n the official National Register of Big Trees in
2000. The registry is revised every two years.
“We can only hope that ‘the rookie' tree that
committed this 'true crime' for 'absolute power’
does not go ‘unforgiven,American Forest maga
zine said, playfully referring to several of
Eastwood’s movie titles.
The new champion is nearly 49 feet around and
Ml feet tall, with a 126-foot crown. That gives it a
total of 759 on American Forest’s scale,
itma,TI, nfcZ ^ng Eastwood’s 629-point tree.
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EdStwood, named last year to the California Parks
and Recreation Commission, could not be reached
for comment.
Maya Angelou speaks to
Dartmouth students
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Poet and author Maya Angelou
apologized to Dartmouth College students on behalf of
her generation for “handing you a world so full of hate.”
But as the keynote speaker at celebrations marking
the 50th anniversary of the school’s Tucker
Foundation, Angelou said Dartmouth students are
“the best we have" and that they have the potential to
change the world.
“Each of you, each student, has the possibility ... of
becoming rainbows for those who are yet to come,”
Angelou said Friday night.
Angelou recited several poems during her speech,
including “Sympathy” and “Little Brown Baby" by
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Letter to My Sister” by Anne
Spencer and one of her own, “Seven Women’s
Blessed Assurance.”
Angelou, who also wrote “I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings,” said she credits poetry as playing a cen
tral role in the survival and success of blacks in the
United States.
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