Cocteau Twins BBC Sessions (Ryko/BBC)

Reissues

"...case against the Twins. Even their dirge-like cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" is tinged with skittish remnants of..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...John Hammond, the celebrated talent scout/producer credited with discovering Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Lipstick Traces

Pretenders

"...sanitized versions of the era's great black jazz divas: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan. In the Nineties, one..."

July 16, 1999 Music Review

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...and Chris Connor. Like Lee, O'Day's major influence was Billie Holiday, though she was more extroverted than either. A..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Live Shots

The Barkers

"...ladies that look good in blue. A reworking of Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow" and her own "Feelin' Alright,"..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...set booklets are lavish), Daniel Cooper compares Williams to Billie Holiday and Robert Johnson for having absorbed "Americans' needs..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Belated Replies

"...darkness I have." And speaking of the pain in Billie Holiday's music, Etta James said: "It's a love that..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...in a smooth slide. Her singing is reminiscent of Billie Holiday; packed into the high and wispy strains of..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature

Congruent Angles

"..."How are you gonna have John Coltrane and Billie Holiday in the basement when they're playing ambient pop..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Growing Chorus

Sex, Drugs & Hepatitis C

"...the romantic crap about drugs that goes back to Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Hank Williams, and later, Ray Charles...."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live Shots

"...anything resembling heat. And the pictures of Coltrane, Ellington, Billie Holiday, handsome. So why is there an acoustic guitar..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature

The Oscar-glow

Tv Eye

"...HC: Her Billie Holiday get-up rates a mention -- flowing, fragrant, and..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...the old and the new, evoking a feeling of Billie Holiday or Nancy Wilson set to more contemporary arrangements...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Disappointments, Indoctrinations, Desperations

Letters At 3am

"...55, much less a great man. I think of Billie Holiday, dead at 44, singing at the end with..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Record Reviews

"...been the Satin Doll woods, where craters left by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald still gape. Only..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Review

Ono -- Oh Yes!

Reissuing Yoko

"...the revelations of hearing Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Billie Holiday -- Ono developed an affection for vocal expression..."

June 27, 1997 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

L.A.: Drastic Space

Letters at 3AM

"...ever thought of -- another drastic project. William Faulkner, Billie Holiday, Martha Graham, Henry Miller, Bette Davis, Walt Whitman,..."

May 23, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...Brian's Song, the demise of the Pixies, red onions, Billie Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache," thoughts of my old dog..."

May 16, 1997 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...music: Nico, Nino Rota, Edith Piaf, Dusty Springfield, whitegirl Billie Holiday. Sad, sad, cry in your black & tan..."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...most rockers aren't this in tune. Definite debt to Billie Holiday, Etta James, and Angela Strehli, but that's no..."

April 11, 1997 Music Review

Perpetuating Preservation

Austin's Historic Victory Grill

"...weekly meal at Juan in a Million, or why Billie Holiday can alternately make you love the world or..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Curriculum I: 10 Movies to Know America By

"...photograph negative, black for white: Sidney Poitier as Rhett, Billie Holiday as Scarlett, Ella Fitzgerald as Melanie, and Denzel..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...great jazz diva rolled into one; Pamela Hart evoking Billie Holiday with her pure, sweet vulnerability; the piano playing..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Music Feature

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...and other writing errors (both Pamela Des Barres and Billie Holiday are misspelled), and rehashes incidents most of us..."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

Distributor Capped!

"...there, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday. Considering the paintings' history -- the Charlie Parker..."

June 14, 1996 Music Column

Sultry, Aggressive, and No-Bullshit Blues by Margaret Moser

"...her hand sweeps regally to the rows of books. "Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Edie Sedgwick... Here's Memphis Minnie -..."

June 30, 1995 Music Feature

Day Trips

Fickle Pickles, the best in the world

"...Six years ago, the original Pickle Lady of Boerne, Billie Shaw, described the flavor of her sliced dill pickles..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Exhibitionism

Rockin' Christmas Party: Glistening And Thrumming

"...ingredient in my mushroom omelettes. However, since it's the holidays, everyone just shrugs and says, "Rockin' Christmas Party."..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Arts Review

Day Trips

"...Pickle Lady. Word-of-mouth advertising has brought the world to Billie Shaw's front door at the Carousel Antiques & Pickle..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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