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Stronger - Carlene Carter

Advantages: Excellent vocals, some really catchy songs, great instruments
Disadvantages: Occasional hints of Shania Twain which scare me

affected her and 2008's "Stronger", her first album in thirteen years, is a reflection of how she now feels her life is moving. The best description I can think of for this album is "county rock". It has shades of Shania Twain although it manages to move towards the more cool side of country (yes, there is one) by some great musical accompaniment such as some nice blue grass fiddle and some simple country arrangements of ballads that could easily fit into several genres. There's a good mix of ballads and up tempo numbers with the catchy "The Bitter End" opening the proceedings. This song just shouts Carter Family and has a quite a traditional arrangement with Carlene's strong voice bringing the song more up to date. "Why be Blue", the second number, is another pacy song which has a brilliant banjo accompaniment. It's a song that ...

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Review of Stronger - Carlene Carter

Get Carter!

Advantages: Samuel L Jackson
Disadvantages: Cliche

emotionally so well through the medium of film. We love these movies as they are euphoric and bring hope, something that perhaps doesn't have quite the same effect on the white folks. I, on the other hand, just love a good American sports movie. Based on a true story , Samuel L Davis is very credible in the lead role as he has travelled that rags-to-riches life he reflects on here, his early acting gigs mostly bad guys and drug dealers because that's the life he lived. But boy has that life experience paid off; the success of The Incredibles (2004) enabled Jackson to surpass Harrison Ford as the actor whose movies have grossed the most money in the world - in excess of $3 billion. He is indeed the coolest dude on the planet. -The Cast- Samuel L. Jackson ... Coach Ken Carter Rob Brown ... Kenyon Stone Robert Ri'chard ... Damien ...

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Review of Coach Carter (DVD)

Carter the life Coach

Advantages: Samuel L Jackson, Feel good movie, uplifting
Disadvantages: bits can feel manufactured, clichéd

The Movie The real life coach (Ken) Carter made the news in 1999 for closing the Gym and banning any basketball activities because several of the students in his team were not doing well in the classroom. The reason he took drastic action was because all the students on the team signed contracts that they would meet a minimum criteria which encompassed all of their education, not just the basketball side of it. Six years later in 2005 Samuel L Jackson steps into Carter's shoes for the movie where he transforms an unfit, uneducated, uncaring bunch of delinquent kids who won 4 basketball games the previous season into winners. Not only winners in terms of them being undefeated within their chosen sport, but also winners in that he instilled pride into what was until recently a mob of unruly kids. Of course the kids initially ...

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