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| A member of the National Radio Company of Ukraine Symphony Orchestra at the Carthage Festival, Carthage, Tunisia, July 14, 2016. |
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“For me there is no art now, there is war. And I know we will pass. The future will definitely be different. Also art. It will be deep and painful, and I'm not sure if people who have not been involved in the war will be able to fully understand it.”
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- Katarina Gryvul, Ukrainian-Austrian contemporary classical musician/composer
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I'm Begging of You
My guess is the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, which was silent on the matter Monday, will say DOLLY PARTON was nominated this year by an independent committee of music experts and insiders whose only criterion was "Has she earned the honor through her body of work?," and her influence on rock and pop is undeniable (hashtag WHITNEY HOUSTON hashtag LINDA RONSTADT hashtag the WHITE STRIPES hashtag the history of rock and roll), and she absolutely has earned the honor. And while the Hall respects Parton's belief that she actually hasn't earned it and admires her humility, it will point out the ballots have been printed and sent to voters and it will leave it up to them whether to go along with the singing and songwriting icon's wishes and leave her off their ballot, or consider her, in spite of her wishes, along with other fully deserving nominees like A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, PAT BENATAR, JUDAS PRIEST, DURAN DURAN and FELA KUTI. It's in their hands, I imagine the Hall will say, and it will be up to each voter to weigh Dolly's wishes against the historical impact of "JOLENE," "I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU," "HERE YOU COME AGAIN" and their own sense of music history and do what they think's best.
My further guess is most voters won't vote for her, either because they weren't going to anyway (because there's a COUNTRY HALL OF FAME and/or because "Jolene" isn't exactly competing with "MORE THAN A FEELING" for air time on their classic rock radio station) or because they don't want to waste their vote, especially when there are 15 or 16 other viable candidates on the ballot.
As the Tennessean's Matthew Leimkuehler pointed out, Parton in recent years has discouraged Tennessee legislators from erecting a statue of her outside the state Capitol building and twice declined a Presidential Medal of Freedom—once because her husband was sick and once because she didn't want to travel during the pandemic. Both offers came from the Trump administration, and she's signaled she'd likely say no the Biden administration, too, because "now I feel like if I take it, I'll be doing politics."
Dolly Parton is never not on brand, and saying "please don't" to the Rock Hall is in character for a country queen who said via Twitter she doesn't feel she's "earned that right" and she doesn't want to steal anyone else's votes. Jolene, the title character of Parton's first song to cross over from country to pop, is the one who takes things that don't belong to her. Parton is the song's narrator, who begs Jolene not to do that to her. "This has, however, inspired me to put out a hopefully great rock 'n' roll album at some point in the future," she wrote—after which, she suggested, she'd be open to Hall of Fame reconsideration.
Parton's timing is strange, her attempted recusal coming six weeks after her nomination was announced and well after ballots were printed and mailed to the Hall's 1,000-ish voters. It's not as if she hadn't had time to think about this. Parton's name has been floated as a likely Hall of Fame candidate for a few years, especially as the Hall started to get serious about addressing its poor record of inducting women. When Billboard asked about her nomination a month ago, she said she wasn't expecting to get in but, "It's just nice to be nominated." And instead of asking the Hall to wait until she recorded a proper rock album, she said the opposite: She was prepared to make such an album if the Hall voted her in.
And then she said nothing for another month, when suddenly, perhaps, she realized she might have turned into Jolene. And, maybe worse, actually getting inducted could prove divisive within the music world. Dolly Parton—my queen, your queen, everybody's queen—was going to have to put a stop to that.
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The turnaround time for pressing vinyl records is "leaning towards the length of a human pregnancy" and the long waits "are the killers of momentum, soul, artistic expression, and far too often, livelihoods." That's according to JACK WHITE, who's been expanding capacity at his own THIRD MAN PRESSING plant and now "politely implore(s)" the three major labels to build their own plants to ease the growing backlog... A likely musical repercussion from economic sanctions on Russia: a vacuum tube shortage... Gas prices are wreaking havoc on touring plans. "It’s going to cost us an extra $30,000 to $40,000 in fuel," ALT-J tour manager MAARTEN COBBAUT tells Billboard... The car radio is 100 years old... AMY BERG's film PHOENIX RISING, which documents EVAN RACHEL WOOD's allegations of abuse against MARILYN MANSON and her advocacy work to protect other domestic violence victims, premieres tonight on HBO.
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| Jack Harlow and the Spread of the Middle-Class Rap Star |
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| There are still subgenres dominated by so-called street rappers, but the mainstream now sustains a variety of stars with explicitly suburban sensibilities. Take the latest in this lineage, Jack Harlow. |
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| Doing Music Deals in the Metaverse? Experts Answer Your FAQs |
| By Kristin Robinson |
| Billboard asked a few of the top professionals working at the intersection of Web3 and the music industry to answer these frequently asked questions regarding the applications and potential uses of crypto technology in the business. |
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| Interview: Jenn D'Eugenio of Women in Vinyl |
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| Jenn D'Eugenio, sales and customer experience manager at Furnace Record Pressing in Alexandria, Va., is one of the female millennials playing a major role in vinyl's resurgence. She's founder and curator of Women in Vinyl, a nonprofit group that empowers and informs girls and women about career opportunities in the vinyl record business. |
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| WTF with Marc Maron: Episode 1313 -- Keith Richards |
| By Marc Maron and Keith Richards |
| It’s been almost seven years since Marc smoked a cigarette with Keith Richards in a radio studio in New York City. Since then, Keith gave up smoking, continued to tour with the Rolling Stones, and released multiple new albums. Marc and Keith catch up on all of that and talk about the passing of Keith’s friend and bandmate Charlie Watts. |
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| The Unclassifiable, Unending Cascade of Arthur Russell’s Music |
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| Russell made club tracks, orchestral music, and songs that sounded like Jimi Hendrix ballads for distorted cello. He was too gentle to be difficult, too serious to be pop, and too prolific to pick a lane. |
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| From "Tysha," out now on Standard Deviation. Tysha is Ukrainian for silence. "I feel guilty," Gryvul said shortly after war broke out in Ukraine, "because I'm safe and someone is dying at the moment." |
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