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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1994 C7 RECORD REVIEWS The Silos 9 'Susan 9 influenced by the best Steak, Chicken Shrimp Trio. Bring this coupon in and get yourself a Cattle Company Top Sirloin Steak, grilled chicken brushed with herbs, six nice plump shrimp, a big ol' baked potato, and all the salad and hot bread you can eat. worth of his character's life. Al 1.9 The Silos "Susan Across the Ocean, Watermelon Records. Reviewed by staff writer Marc D.

Allan. JV 1 The essence of rock ron can be found in these 12 tracks. The songs are influenced by the best the Stones, the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Light a fire under yourself; this deal ends May 7. though the man in question is married and has three wonderful children, he can't help wondering about Susan: "I love this woman beside mebut I can't help thinking about the life I could have had." It's the kind of song Dylan used to write, and sometimes still does. But that's not all.

The Silos' fifth album also includes garage-band covers of Lucinda Williams' Change the Locks and Jonathan Richman's I'm Straight, as well as a cover of the definitive song about trying to escape boredom, Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around. It's terrific from beginning to end. (The Silos return to Indianapolis next Friday at the Patio. Tickets are $5 and available in advance at the Vogue, (317) 259-7029.) White apparently ditched such aspirations after his first and only solo album back in 1985. But Bailey has pressed on, devoting alternate albums to pop and gospel.

He's back again with a self-titled album that may not spawn as big a hit as his 1984 Easy Lover duet with Phil Collins, but it's good nonetheless. You'll find some very engaging pop-soul here, much of it produced by singer-songwriters Chuckii Booker and Brian McKnight. Bailey's falsetto doesn't soar as it once did on standards like Reasons and Write a Song For You, but his vocals seem more expressive when he isn't pushing to reach those stratospheric notes. And he can still weave some soul into a song, particularly on Love Me Tonight and Just Like Summer. Other notable tracks include Yours, an interesting duet with Arrested Development's Nadirah Ali; the McKnight-produced I'm Ready and Crazy Things You Do For Love and Booker's Stay Right Here and Live it Up.

lease Infamous Angel earned her comparisons to the Carter Family and John Prine. The music's just as unadorned on My Life sparse acoustic arrangements of piano, guitar and dobro but DeMent's lyrical vignettes are much bleaker this time around. These songs are informed by sorrow and loss, both of lovers You've Done Nothing Wrong, Calling For You) and her father, Patric, who died in 1992. Easily the best song is No Time to Cry, inspired by his death, in which the singer delays her mourning because she has bills to pay and shows to play. It is possibly the most heartfelt denial of grief you'll ever hear.

DeMent has an eye for wonderful detail inside a Mason jar acting big behind the wheel of Daddy's car" from Childhood Memories) and a graceful, reflective perspective on family, life and death. In the title track, she concludes, "My life, it's only a seasona passing September that no one will recall." With songs like these, that doesn't seem likely. Terence Blanchard "The Billie Holiday Songbook, Revival. The music drives and builds; it's playful and raw. The lyrics tell of boredom, love, desire, distress and paranoia.

Walter Salas-Humara, a founding mem- her nf tho Flnri. Iris DeMent "My Life," Warner Bros. Records. Reviewed by staff writer Steve Hall. da branch of the Salas-Humara Vulgar Boatmen and leader of the Silos since the mid-1980s, wraps these together in one disc that emphasizes form and feeling rather than slick production.

The title cut is the disc's masterpiece. Salas-Humara, in a nasal, Dylan-style vocal, questions the Because of its kkkkc simple country music, often whimsical lyrics and her sweet, twangy soprano, Iris De-Ment's critically acclaimed 1992 re- Star ratings: excellent; good; fair; poor Columbia Records. Reviewed by staff writer Scott Miley. company There's a Cattle Company near you. Call for reservations.

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And you've got to like Jeanie Bryson's voice to like the disc. While she sings on only five of the 12 songs, her mature, yet soft vocals aren't compelling. She even seems to try to force atmosphere on the anti-lynching Strange Fruit (which is just getting more theatrical with every interpretation). This turns out to be not so much a Holiday tribute but Blanchard trying to experiment within the confines of safe jazz standards. Philip Bailey "Philip Bailey, "Zoo Entertainment.

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