| |
| | Popular Music and Society: Various Artists. Real: The Tom T. Hall Project. - sound recording review |
 | | Hall's songs are littered with the displaced, impoverished, and isolated, often struggling, musicians who cannot ignore the call of art and the road, even though, paradoxically, they understand it is the source of their isolation. |
 | | Tom T. Hall's music suggests he would choose the latter, which makes him terribly out of step by today's standards when all a performer really needs is a hat, tight jeans, a personal trainer, and a slick producer to make it on Country Music Television. |
 | | When Hall's traditional songs are revised by other, mostly younger, artists, several things happen: the music is reinvigorated, and the artistry of Hall's writing highlighted; this, in turn, calls attention to the innovations of those musicians who have followed him and to their respect for Hall's music. |
| www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_2001_Fall-Winter/ai_100440160 (1315 words) |
|