Stone Temple Pilot's vocalist Scott Weiland 1 became the eccentric bard of 12 Bar Blues , another example of stylistic fusion and futuristic folk. Heather Duby owed half the artistic success of Post To Wire to the oneiric orchestrations of Pell Mell's Steve Fisk, soundscapes that metabolized all sorts of styles while the singer borrowed from Nico, Enya and Bjork her emotional charge. Some of the problems of the previous decades had fathered worse problems. Many in the West fell to the illusion of perennial prosperity. The father of Brazilian soul music, Tim Maia never hid his true nature from his fans, his prospective employers, or the law.
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