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11 PORTRAITS FOR A PU Staq imv Music owraMiBite KNOX AREA RESCUE Showtime Stnday June 14 1998 experience with at raped and Ryes Blue about regaining cneb eeteem after leaving an abusive mlatinmihip a Tf You Want to Tbuch Her Ask reafiy comes firm my early teen years a time when file boundaries really hadn't been set between bay and girl" Twain 5X7 Portrait tf fur a ft UFmkuf Now Thru June 27 Reflections Images PHOTOQRAPHY 546-5577 PM BmOmrWmtTumm-MmH IhkpW By Gene Stout Baalll ntHr O0I1DI roSHnMQSflMr Kb been more than three: mace Shania Twain career with the feisty singles Bed Have Your Boots Been and Man of Yet Twain says she isn't even a teeny bit worried about her first TmtjVml Hmprttm milataM that could make any performer -WBak in the knees Tta feeling great and An read Twain raid by phone from herbome in lake Pfecid NY 1 think what people may not understand is that I've been perfonmqg in fiat of andiencea nr a Idol lote time but on a smaller edklo fm actually getting back into my comfert winch Ontario through file summer of 999L '4 Twain said the faiggBst 1 challenge in launching a first-time tour was bring up to her fen expectations 1 had to ask myseH Tithe show spectacular enough and exciting enough rad entertaining tfaatitisL worked on it fer several months now and Tve been hands-on sinoe day a Hpfitrncr qtapnip mi and evaybttb Rehearrab fer the tom featuring a nino-piece band -began in lake Placid Fbne recently snapped im tickets to a warmup show at the lake Placid The ticketa sold out file first Twain said sounding was expecting to at least fill the floor but we were ray beyond that One of the goals in recording her current album On -Over was to come up with additional eanp emtaue fer her tOUE 'I---' 1 aimed fir the kind cf stuff that fens enjoyed the most on the last album bke Tm Outta Heref mid Any Man of Twain aid The songs on Over are also a lot more Tt seemed fiks a natural thing todoi These days I feel mare camfertabb and confident writing about try own pewonaBy and my own perspective on On Over includes two a song shout ndolmmr wwkwnrdnfwi imd went tfazougi a stage that probably most girls doi When 1 developing physically you fed very awkward And guys cither find those tirinp fumy or are really embarrassed if they're lnnlrrng wrote the song based on that but turned it into something fer more positive Kb a song about mntaial iwrHft Known fer her feisty fist- pumping aongp Twain longs fer tfw htmUijfifng miwnny rt many older country songs "What I think fm bringing to country isn't something thatb new to country but something thatis left she said used to write songs with more direct lyrics like Johnny Paychecks Thke This Job and Shove music used to be much more controversial than it now We've gone into this serious politically correct stage that artistically I find very voy Twain and IongB are one of modem country most successful husband-and-wife teams not afraid to share our stupid ideas with each other Ybu how to allow youredf to be vulnerable to truly expose something that could be briHiaat That happens with us a Twain a native of Ontario Canada began singing at about SflL She made her nightriiih it at 8 when her fether pulled her out of bed one night to sing at a local after the nighty liquor curfew Before she was 2L Twain opened a concert by Bernadette Raters and the Ibronto Symphony hi 1993 she recorded her first album which inriuded the single 'Cod Aint Gonna Getdui fir Twainb career has been on fire ever since she met her husband rock producer Robert John Iango in 1998 IangB has worked with Def Leppard Mhhad Bolton AGOG Foreigner and Bryan Adams The thirds Tea been mart BuooeeBfid with over the bet fear yean have been the television ranees and the studio etuf( my records Twain said But the irony of that is that those are the things I'm the most awkward with and that I had no PRES ErN I Saw Zip Win tickets to exclusive sneak preview of Mulat Thursday June 18th at Regal Cinemas Knoxville Center Movie Opens in Theaters June 19th BThe News-Sentinel 1 1 Please enter me in the drawing for two tickets to theMulan Premiere! DsyPtaw Fill outthit hfi Md wtl it wMiiUm PumiunPO Bui VJ03S KiCTnriUf TN 379W903S Wiwwi will be notified by phone nd will nerd comr by the office of The KaonriUt Nnw Stntintl 208 VW Chwch Awaur bjr Thundqi June 18 RBOKIW (Icfcm SaaBaBacaaEaEaBaEaEaraBaBssiBJ.