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In three volumes-- Ballads , Social Music , and Songs --he gathered blues, gospel hymns, murder narratives, reels and jigs, Cajun tunes, sermons, and ancient Child ballads transmuted from their British origins by centuries in the mountains and valleys of America.
The judge is but another lawyer, seldom one of the more erudite, and he might be more amenable to the old familiar tunes than to start minimalism, however pure or precise.
Boone, 62, had appeared onstage at the American Music Awards in a bare-chested leather outfit to promote his new album, in which he croons famous metal tunes.
Critics praise it for bucking Disney's musical-comedy formula: It's full of self-conscious humor (jokes about a glut of Hercules merchandise) and employs gospel music instead of the usual treacly pop tunes.
Doctorow's 1975 novel about turn-of-the-century America gets saddled with forgettable tunes by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally that is "thuddingly didactic," especially on race (Lloyd Rose, the Washington Post ). The show has "the aura of something assembled by corporate committee," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.