By Keefer
Mar 13, 2021
A look back at the album that changed everything about the band’s story, and presaged the whole decade to come
Thirty years ago, R.E.M. dropped an album called
Out of Time and nobody was prepared for it. “Losing My Religion,” “Half a World Away,” “Country Feedback,” “Near Wild Heaven” these were the most soulful, gorgeous songs the boys from Athens G-A had ever written. This comeback changed everything about the R.E.M. story, but it also presaged the whole decade to come. They basically invented the Nineties with this album. It was a total shock, after a few years when they sounded like bored rock pros going through the motions. “Yeah, I guess I jangled for a while,”Peter Buck told
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Reminders of Home in a World Away: the Rougher Side of Maui Story and photos by Heidi Siefkas
The Maui most tourists picture is a land of big waves and beaches, but a transplant finds that the northern interior presents a much more rugged landscape.
As the sun was preparing to set, my partner-in-crime pulled off the winding, narrow paved road. Wearing my University of Wisconsin-Madison hat, long johns, thick gloves, and an outer layer of rain gear to keep me warm, I took out two folding chairs that are always in the back of our van for a picnic or tailgate. I carried them into the pasture beside the road, carefully stepping to avoid the cowpies. With quickly dropping temperatures, clouds coming in, and the playlist of mooing cows, was I in small-town Wisconsin?
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Best Country Music Albums of All Time
By Michele Zipkin, Stacker News
On 1/16/21 at 10:00 AM EST
U.S. Air Force
Ray Price messed around with rhythm, Willie Nelson veered into jazzy realms, and modern country artists such as Eric Church and Sam Hunt meld rock and R&B with country flavors. The genre has continued to expand to feature new subgenres such as country trap perhaps the most well-known song to fit into this genre is Lil Nas X s Old Town Road. Country has gone by several different names. Country musician Harlan Howard pegged it as three chords and the truth, while others have described it as the music of heartache or line dancing. Besides having various names, country music is also a genre that welcomes the reinventing of existing songs as much as it embraces the writing of new ones.