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☆ Beyoncé's covers are landing Boomer country artists in the ears of Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She weaves in samples and references to Black artists, including Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, and Roy Hamilton. A cover song isn't just a copyThere's a long history of non-country artists doing country covers. Related storiesFor artists, cover songs "are like a stepping stone. Solis, the ethnomusicologist, pointed out that country music has grown out of a history of people playing other artists' songs, particularly Black artists. Beyoncé's "Jolene" cover is #3 on Apple Music Charts, while "Blackbird" is #12.

Persons: Cowboy Carter, Jolene, —, Carter, It's, Queen Bey, she's, Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, Roy Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Bey, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Tina Knowles, Gabriel Solis, Patsy Cline's, Bing Crosby, Don Cusic, Beyoncé, — Bey, Solis, " Solis, Tracy Chapman's, Luke Combs, Martell, Nelson, Parton, Cusic Organizations: Service, University of Washington, Western Music Hall of Fame, Spotify, Apple, YouTube Locations: America, Beyoncé

☆ Opinion: How Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ reveals America’s true nature
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Opinion Roxanne Jones | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

And Beyoncé’s bold, brilliant new album “Act II: Cowboy Carter,” which dropped Friday, is no exception to those musical roots. Roxanne Jones CNNIt was from Africa that the banjo, the signature instrument of country music, arrived on our nation’s shores. For a brief time in the 1960s and 1970s, Black country music artists received some commercial success and recognition. And, though he’s in the Country Music Hall of Fame today, Bailey was never recognized for his countless contributions to the genre. And by this measure, I’d say Beyoncé’s second act, “Cowboy Carter,” is indeed classic country music.

Persons: Roxanne Jones, Jones, ”, Cowboy Carter, Roxanne Jones CNN, There’d, Beyonce, Alice Randall, “, ” Randall, Linda Martell, Martell, Ray Charles ’, Charley Pride, DeFord Bailey, mistreating Bailey, ” Bailey, Bailey, Uncle Wilbur, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Bey Organizations: ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, NPR, Grand Ole Opry, Country Music Hall of Fame Locations: Africa, America, Texas, Beyoncé, Nashville , Tennessee

☆ How unregulated radio stations out of Mexico fueled the country music boom in America
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Known as "border radio," the unregulated American radio industry sprung up on Mexico's northern border in the 1930s. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesIn the years that followed, other border radio stations sprung up in Mexico. Hank Thompson, another country music star who grew up in Waco in the 30s, said border radio stations were the only stations where one could listen to country music most of the time. But the legacy of border radio stations continued to live on in the country music they helped popularize, as well as its cousin genres. According to American honky-tonk star Webb Pierce, country music "might not have survived if it hadn't been for border radio."

Persons: —, Bill Crawford, Crawford, weren't, Will Horwitz, Horwitz's, Jimmie Rodgers, Carter, Michael Ochs, Jesus Christ, Dallas Turner, John Romulus Brinkley, Brinkley, Pope Brock, Minerva, Minnie, Jones, Patsy Montana, Slim Rinehart, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Thompson, Lydia Mendoza, Rosa Dominguez, Mexican Nightingale, Dominguez, Maybelle, Webb Pierce, It's Organizations: Service, Business, Amazing Broadcasters, American Airwaves, Keystone, Gamma, Getty Images, US, charlatans, Houston, Country, Michael Ochs Archives, Kansas he'd, The Kansas State Medical Board, Federal Radio Commission, Soibelman, Tejano, Getty, Thunderbirds, ZZ Locations: American, West, Mexico, Canada, United States, Mexican, France, Tamaulipas, KFKB, Kansas, New York, Waco, South Dakota

☆ Brenda Lee, a Queen of Christmas and So Much More
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Lee inducted Tucker into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October, and people are still talking about the dry delivery and killer comic timing of her speech. Lee has, Tucker added, “the best sense of humor known to man (or woman).”For the past four years, “Rockin’” has peaked at No. Because while Brenda Lee is a Christmas queen, she’s also so much more. Brenda Lee has stories. While still in her teens, Lee shared bills with Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield — the list is seemingly endless.

Persons: Tanya Tucker, Lee, Tucker, “, ”, Mariah, ” Lee, Carey, Brenda Lee, she’s, Elvis Presley, Elvis, “ I’m, I’ve, ” Patsy Cline, Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield, John Lennon, Lee “ Organizations: Country Music Hall of Fame, Ole Opry, Beatles Locations: Hamburg

☆ ‘Spamalot’ Review: You’ll Laugh in Its General Direction
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jesse Green | More About Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you’ve seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the 1975 movie spoof of all things Arthurian and many things not, you know the coconuts I mean. And if you’re enough of a Python fan to have also seen “Spamalot,” the 2005 Broadway musical “lovingly ripped off” from the film, you’ve probably memorized the whole bit. That’s the one in which Arthur’s trusted patsy, Patsy, slaps coconut halves together so the deluded king can pretend he has a horse. Among many others, so are a troupe of self-flagellating monks, a cart of corpses, a vulgar French taunter and a Trojan rabbit. This one, directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, gives the “ni”-sayers what they want.

Persons: Monty Python, “, you’ve, Arthur’s, patsy, Patsy, James, Eric Idle, John Du Prez, ”, Josh Rhodes, sayers Organizations: St Locations: England

It's one of the surprising revelations in Willie Nelson 's new book, “Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs,” an examination of the 90-year-old country legend and soon-to-be Rock & Roll Hall of Famer 's seven decades of songwriting. “The melodies are easier to write than the words,” Nelson told The Associated Press in an interview ahead of Tuesday's release of his book. “I don’t write as much as I used to,” he told the AP. And on Friday, the same week the book is released, he'll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “You can get rock ‘n’ roll in country, rock and roll in any kind of music,” he said.

Persons: — Willie, Willie Nelson, it's, ” Nelson, ”, “, ain’t, ’ ”, Nelson, songsmiths, Billy Walker's, Patsy Cline's, Patsy, ’, Mammas, Sydney Pollack, Rose, Pollack, ” Pollack, makin, David Ritz, Mickey Raphael, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, he'll, Dolly Parton Organizations: ANGELES, Roll Hall of Famer, Associated Press, Be Cowboys, AP, Hollywood Bowl, Roll Hall of Fame Locations: Texas, Nashville

☆ Poland's toxic politics is splitting the country in two, one family at a time
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“We always end up talking about politics,” Karolina says with an exaggerated weariness. An increasingly toxic politics has polluted kitchens and dining rooms in every region of the country. But the negativity of the country’s politics – arguments echoed each hour on state TV, which is almost always turned on – has worn her down, she says. The efforts sparked years of legal challenges, protests and international confrontations – and hardened the Polish public. Asked whether Polish politics is more divided than they remember it, three generations of this family explode in agreement.

Persons: Karolina, “, – Stella, Patrycja, – Stella’s, Stanisława –, ” Karolina, ”, Stanisława, Stella Martynowska, Rob Picheta, PiS, –, ” Stella, Rob Picheta “, “ That’s, Stella, billows, Piotr Buras, ” Women’s, Donald Tusk, patsy, Tusk, Lech Walesa, Poland’s, Jarosław Kaczyński, ” “, ” Jacek Kucharczyk, Ewa Majewska, I’m, Igor Konior, Konior, Wanda, … I’m, ” Lucyna, Aleksandra Lukasiewicz, Lukasiewicz, “ It’s, “ We’re, ” Aleksandra Lukasiewicz, they’re, they’ve, Michal, I’ll, gesturing, ” Patrycja Organizations: Poland CNN, Soviet, Justice, CNN, European Council, Foreign Relations, Civic Coalition, Warsaw’s Institute of Public Affairs, Tusk’s Civic Coalition, PiS, Union Locations: Warsaw, Poland, Rob Picheta Poland, Polish, Hungary, Russia, Western Europe, Brussels, Berlin, Lublin, “, Rotterdam, Łódź, Bonita

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael McGrath, a Broadway character actor who shined in zany, feel-good musicals and won a Tony Award for “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” has died. McGrath died Thursday at his home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, said his publicist, Lisa Goldberg. “Michael McGrath was as wonderful offstage as he was on,” wrote Michael Urie in tribute. The actor also moves with the confidence of a born hoofer, particularly in his ″'The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues. '″He is survived by his wife of 30 years, actor Toni Di Buono and a daughter, actor Katie Claire McGrath.

Persons: — Michael McGrath, ”, McGrath, Lisa Goldberg, “ Michael McGrath, Michael Urie, ” McGrath, Martin, Michael McGrath, Patsy, ‘, ’, Monty, Eric Idle, Tony, Cookie McGee, Matthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara, Charlie conviviality, Toni Di Buono, Katie Claire McGrath Organizations: Broadway, “, “ Memphis ”, City Center, The Associated Press Locations: Bloomfield , New Jersey, “, “ Memphis

☆ Sarah Everard: London Met police pay "substantial damages" and apolgize to women held at vigil
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sharon Braithwaite | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Two women who were arrested while attending a Sarah Everard vigil in London in 2021 have been paid damages and received an apology from the Metropolitan Police. A lawyer’s statement on Thursday confirmed that the London police force had apologized and agreed to pay “substantial” damages to the women, Patsy Stevenson and Dania Al-Obeid. “Together with making payments of substantial damages to Dania Al-Obeid and Patsy Stevenson, the MPS has issued an apology,” the statement by law firm Bindmans LLP reads. Police detain Patsy Stevenson at the 2021 vigil on London's Clapham Common. Hannah McKay/Reuters‘Tiring and difficult’ processIn a statement published by Bindmans LLP, Patsy Stevenson said the process had been a “tiring and difficult” one.

Persons: Sarah Everard, Patsy Stevenson, Dania, Everard, Stevenson, Bindmans, ‘, ”, Patsy, Hannah McKay, it’s, ” Stevenson, “ I’m, Obeid, Dylan Martinez, “, ” “ Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Police, London police, Met, MPS, Metropolitan Police Service, Reuters, Bindmans LLP, Met Police Locations: London, Clapham Common, Clapham

☆ London police apologise and pay compensation to women held at vigil
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Michael Holden | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Police detain Patsy Stevenson as people gather at a memorial site in London's Clapham Common park following the kidnap-murder of Sarah Everard, in London, Britain, March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - London's police force has apologised and paid "substantial damages" to two women detained at a vigil held in memory of Sarah Everard who was raped and murdered by a serving officer, their lawyers said on Thursday. Bindmans, the law firm who represented women, said in a statement the Metropolitan Police had now settled civil claims brought by the women, paying them damages and issuing an apology. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said the vigil had taken place in extraordinary circumstances and its officers had acted in good faith. An independent watchdog report weeks after the vigil concluded police had acted appropriately.

Persons: Patsy Stevenson, Sarah Everard, Hannah McKay, Everard, Wayne Couzens, Dania Al, Stevenson, It’s, Cressida Dick, Couzens, Michael Holden, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, Clapham, Metropolitan Police, Thomson Locations: London's Clapham, London, Britain

☆ In the spotlight: London hosts Olivier Awards for theatre
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Paul Mescal arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party after the 95th Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 12, 2023. The London theatre community will gather at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual ceremony, named after the famed British actor Laurence Olivier and which celebrates the best productions in the capital. These include nods for best entertainment or comedy play, choreography, directing, costume design and music, as well as a best actress nomination for Mei Mac, who plays younger sibling, four-year-old Mei. Paul Mescal, who was nominated at this year's Oscars, has been recognised in the best actor category for playing Stanley Kowalski in a revival of Tennessee Williams' “A Streetcar Named Desire”. "Killing Eve" star Comer is up for best actress in one-woman play "Prima Facie", in which she portrays a barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault before herself being assaulted.

☆ Why 94-year-old ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ star James Hong says he's not close to retiring
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Onstage, Hong reflected on the early days of his career, when he often played side characters to white leads in yellowface. Hong recalled that producers "said Asians were not good enough and they are not box office. After decades in the industry, Hong is getting greater public recognition for his work. Hong received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022, making history as the oldest recipient to receive the honor. Hong says he's a better actor today than ever.

☆ Police investigating unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey to seek help from cold case team
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Police in Boulder, Colorado, will consult with a state cold case team as they continue to investigate the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. The Colorado Cold Case Review Team is made up of professional investigative, analytical and forensic experts from across the state. Police said the team "is another tool to help further cold case homicide investigations." Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies continue to work on JonBenet’s case. JonBenet’s half-brother, John Andrew, commented on the news, writing on Twitter that it was a "positive" step in her case.

☆ Billionaire hedge fund titan Seth Klarman reveals how he finds investments that meet his standards and his 2 favorite principles of investing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( David Rubenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

David Rubenstein: You and Warren Buffett, with whom you have often been compared, are probably the two best-known and successful value investors. What skills are required to be a successful value investor? Simon and Schuster: The basic practice of value investing is trying to buy dollars for 50 cents, sometimes 60 or70 cents — in effect, buying bargains. Early on in the 1920s and 1930s, Benjamin Graham wrote about value investing. In terms of the requirements to be a value investor, the skill set, first of all, people need to be patient and disciplined.

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