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Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6 a.m.
Recently I wrote a list of Texas musicians I felt folks should try to see perform live while they still have the opportunity, and in many people"s minds the one glaring omission I made was Guy Clark. Now, Clark appears to be on a (hopefully) temporary hiatus from playing live shows, and has lived and written in Nashville since the "70s, but his contributions to music and especially to the strange tapestry of what could be called "Texas songwriting" is inestimable, so I have to admit I screwed up by leaving his name off of that list. That was a mistake as big as the Lone Star State, as any dedicated fan of country music or Texas folk can attest, and needs to be corrected now.
Clark was born in 1941 and raised in Monahans, a small town of about 6,000 people west of Odessa. His early years in west Texas, and encounters with people moving through or staying at the motel his grandmother owned, have provided career-long inspiration for his songs. In the late "60s, Clark was living in Houston and working his way around the local folk-music scene, where he met longtime friend and partner in crime Townes Van Zandt, and filled out his musical vocabulary watching musicians like Lightnin" Hopkins do their thing. During this period, Clark began writing songs and developing his own style of music, a uniquely Texan blending of folk and blues-infused country.
Eventually Clark headed west, like countless others following a dream, and found his way first to San Francisco. There he met and married his muse, a woman named Susanna, herself a gifted artist and songwriter. Before long, the couple moved south to Los Angeles for a short but tumultuous stay that inspired his classic song "L.A. Freeway." In the early "70s, the Clarks landed in Nashville, where Guy worked as a writer with several music-publishing companies before eventually being signed by RCA Records. In 1975, his first album,Old No. 1, was released, followed by Texas Cookin" in 1976, which cemented Clark"s status as one of the most promising writers creating a new breed of Texas-influenced country music.
Clark has always been considered a "songwriter"s songwriter," someone who has consistently crafted excellent songs that other performers fell in love with and often turned into hits. Over his long career, Clark penned songs that Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allen Coe, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, and others turned into Billboard gold, but never quite turned into a country-music superstar himself. While he might never have emerged as a household name like some of the country music royalty who recorded his tunes, Clark still developed an enormous and well-deserved fanbase, and has been crucial to creating a unique type of serious country music, one rooted in emotional relevance instead of relying on corny boot-scootin" clichs or songs about loving one"s truck.
Clark is also a survivor in a quickly disappearing and irreplaceable generation of songsmiths a writer who brought a Texan sensibility to Nashville in the "70s, and who made an indelible mark on the music being created there. Clark was a hard-partying musician for decades, and while friends of his like Townes Van Zandt were ultimately destroyed by those excesses, Guy Clark is still around. His last album, My Favorite Picture of You, came out in 2013, filled with songs that are as good as anything he"s ever written. The especially moving title track is about his wife Susanna, whom Clark cared for during years of ill health before she succumbed to cancer in 2012. Unfortunately, Clark"s own health hasn"t been great recently, and as a result he hasn"t been able to tour. Hopefully that will change sometime in the near future.
When compiling my list of Texas living legends, I foolishly passed over Clark because he"s lived in Nashville for so long that it didn"t seem appropriate to include him. That was a grievous error, as his contributions to the music culture of this state are considerable, and his influence on the music of artists like Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett and others shouldn"t be underestimated. With that in mind: I apologize, Mr. Clark, and thank you very much for your music.
Here"s hoping you feel better soon. We"d all like a chance to see you play again.
Source: http://www.houstonpress.com/music/guy-clark-a-living-legend-of-texas-music-we-nearly-overlooked-8332869
As unanswered questions continue to swirl surrounding the sudden death of Prince, a bombshell new allegation has come from an unexpected source: Irish singer Sinead OConnor posted a disturbing rant on her Facebook page this afternoon claiming Arsenio Hall was behind the iconic musicians death!
Two words for the DEA investigating where Prince got his drugs over the decades, she wrote in the outrageous post. Arsenio Hall
Anyone imagining Prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land, she continued.
Arsenio Ive reported you to the Carver County Sheriffs office. Expect their call. They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie Murphys house. You best get tidying your man cave.
Reps for OConnor did not immediately respond to Radars request for comment, and neither did the Carver County Sheriffs.
This is just the latest in a series of troubling outbursts by the former music superstar. In October 2013, she wrote at least four open letters eviscerating Miley Cyrus.
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And in November 2015, she posted a troubling suicide threat on her Facebook page.
Her last post before the Prince rant claimed that she was fed up with getting spied on.
As Radar reported, Prince was found dead at the age of 57 on April 21 in his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota. Toxicology reports are still pending, and there is an open police investigationinto the circumstances surrounding his death.
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As The National ENQUIRER reported, he struggled with AIDS in the months before his passing.
UPDATE:
A rep for Hall told Radar, The statement regarding Arsenio Hall is absolutely false, ridiculous and absurd.
Source: http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/prince-dead-drugs-claims-sinead-oconnor-alleges-arsenio-hall-involved-outrageous-facebook/
Google may have last week managed to overtake Apple as the worlds most valuable company for the second time this year, but as was the case last time, it didnt last long. AsPhilip Elmer-DeWitt noted in his blog, Apple has quickly regained its number one slot
The back-and-forth reflects Apples changing stock market fortunes as the market attempts to make sense of the recent decline in iPhone sales. Even noted billionaire investors seem uncertain which way to bet, Carl Icahn bailing out as Warren Buffet jumped in.
Quartz reporter and former WSJ finance writerMatt Phillips suggested that Buffetts move may, paradoxically, be because he thinks Apples days of rapid growth are over.
Berkshire Hathaways stake is actually just an acknowledgement of the direction Apple has been heading in for years under CEO Tim Cook. Since taking the helm in 2011, Cook has essentially been tasked with managing the transformation of Apple from a fast-growing company seemingly immune to the law of large numbers, to a more statelybut still incredibly profitablecorporate powerhouse that consistently showers shareholders with dividends and buybacks.
Now, Apple is joining the ranks of the high-quality, if somewhat sleepy, clutch of corporations Berkshire has owned for decades, including Coca-Cola and IBM. There are worse fates.
InvestorPlace agrees that Buffett enters stocks for the long run.
If youre a shareholder, theres definitely reason to cheer todays news. While Mr. Icahn is the stereotypical corporate raider swooping into a position, rabble-rousing and demanding changes, dividends and buybacks, and then selling out Buffett cares only about long-term investing.
HasAAPL become a boring blue-chip investment, or is there more big-time growth to come? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Source: http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/17/aapl-versus-goog-market-cap/
This time, business was notBoomin for Antonio Brown.
The Steelers receiver andDancing With the Stars partner Sharna Burgess will not be in next weeks final, tripped up in a double-elimination Monday night. Also falling short were Boyz II Mens Wanya Morris and Lindsay Arnold.
Its been an awesome experience and Im ready to transition ... play football again, Mr. Brown said in a post-show ABC.com interview. He thanked Steelers Nation for its support, adding that his end zone dances will really be noteworthy this season.
With formerDWTS winner and Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward waving a Terrible Towel in the audience, theshow began with a parade of trios; each team chose another professional to join the dance. In the case of Mr. Brown,DWTS troupe member Haley Erbert and Ms. Burgess provided double coverage as they swept through an Argentine tango (Mi Confesion).
Dressed in a dark grey suit, suspenders, fedora and burgundy, open shirt, Mr. Brown seemed comfortable in what is essentially a dance of precise, refined movements. He showed off his athleticism in flashy style, however, at one point lifting Ms. Erbert straight into an overhead press.
The judges were enthusiastic,but held back the perfect10s. Mr. Brown and Ms. Burgess consistently had the lowest scores among those who reached the semifinals. The enthusiasm of Steelers National helped keep them on the playing field.
The second part of the show delved into the celeb dancers personal lives, or, in reality show-speak, theirjourneys. Mr. Brown, who grew up in Miami, explained in a pre-taped bit that his childhood world took a hit when his parents divorced.
Later, he was not considered a frontrunner on the football field. Mr. Brown was a smallish receiver who starred at Central Michigan University but wasnt taken in the NFL draft until the sixth round.
I went from underdog to top dog, Mr. Brown said. Then he paraphrased rapper Drake:I started from bottom, now Im here.
Against a backdrop of images from the players career, Mr. Brown and Ms. Burgess performed a contemporary number to Hall of Fame. They scored a 28, including their first 10 of of the season, to general praise (judge Carrie Ann Inaba more or less said he wasnt a great dancer, but hadpresence.)
The contemporary dance also featured some great lifts; judge Len Goodman noted his werethe most spectacular lifts I have ever seen on this show.
The May 23 finale features one athlete (mixed martial arts fighter Paige VanZant with Mark Ballas), a network meteorologist (Ginger Zee with Val Chmerkovskiy) and a deaf model (Nyle DiMarco with Peta Murgatroyd).
Maria Sciullo: msciullo@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1478 or @MariaSciulloPG.
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2016/05/16/Steelers-receiver-Antonio-Brown-has-been-eliminated-from-Dancing-With-The-Stars/stories/201605160157
PARACHUTE PRESIDENT?: A hard-hitting ad released this week accuses rumored presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders of blasting golden parachute executive pay while at the same time collecting it.
By Bruce Parker | Vermont Watchdog
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has opted to parachute out of a response to a hard-hitting ad claiming he and his wife, Jane Sanders, benefited from a $200,000 golden parachute severance package from Burlington College.
In the advocacy ad paid for by Skip Vallee, a resident of Shelburne and owner of fuel dealer R.L. Vallee Inc., Sanders is seen blasting the rich for manipulating a rigged system and getting golden parachutes.
The ad then states the Sanderses benefitted from a cushy severance of $200,000 following Jane Sanders 2011 resignation from Burlington College, where she served as president. The executive pay amounted to nearly four times the average annual household income in Vermont, the ad says.
While Sanders is widely expected to make a run for the White House in 2016, Vermonts junior senator and self-described Democratic socialist might have better luck parachuting in after his response to the ad.
Instead of clarifying the senators confusing position on lavish executive severance packages, or discussing the option to return the money, Sanders spokesman Mike Briggs attacked Vallees gas station business and the Koch Brothers. Jane Sanders defended the pay as standard practice for colleges and said the ad itself was an example of why her husband needs to be president.
As president at Burlington College, Jane Sanders led a controversial 2010 campaign to purchase a 33-acre campus on Lake Champlain for $10 million, despite no votes of two board members from the state loan-approval agency.
The college is now on the verge of technical default as the organization struggles to make payments on its debt.
Upon resigning in 2011, Jane Sanders walked away with a $200,000 severance package consisting of a one-year paid sabbatical.
Blasting the rich is a trademark of Sen. Sanders. On Sunday, he told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, There is profound anger at the greed on Wall Street and corporate America, adding that the middle class was collapsing while the gap between the very rich and everybody else is growing wider.
In statements released in the past two weeks, Sanders has railed against perceived financial inequity, argued for limits on corporate campaign donations and demanded mandatory salary quotas for women.
The Sanderses didnt respond to Watchdog.orgs request for clarification on the senators position on severance packages for executives.
Contact Bruce Parker@watchdog.org
Source: http://watchdog.org/171343/bernie-golden-parachutes-ad/
