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Cohen Seeks to Destroy Trump Legacy ARAB TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021 NEWS/FEATURES 13 People & Places Music Earle pays tribute to son Frazer ‘brings’ old school vibes to ’21 By Mark Kennedy aron Frazer, “Introducing...” (Dead Oceans/ AEasy Eye Sound) This year is going to be fi ne. How can we be so sure? It’s starting with the release of Aaron Frazer’s debut solo album. One spin and you’ll be spellbound, swaying — and smiling. Frazer, the drummer and co-lead singer for Durand Jones & The Indications, has teamed up with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys for the electric, falsetto- fueled and soulful 12-track “Introducing...” Auerbach has empowered Frazer to more deeply explore funk, soul, doo-wop, fuzzy guitars and blues, creat- ing an old-new and deeply sat- isfying sound, from the horn- and Wurlitzer-led “If I Got It (Your Love Brought It)” to the torch song “Leanin’ On Your Everlasting Love.” With vibes of Curtis May- fi eld and Marvin Gaye and an irresistible bass line — and wait, a fl ute? — “Bad News” is tremendous, satisfying both Earle your fi nger-snapping and soul needs. There’s even a moment in it when Frazier sim- ply abandons his falsetto for a split second, thrillingly. Auerbach’s clout is evident, as when legendary songwriter L. Russell Brown, who wrote hits for falsetto star Frankie Valli, helped write “You Don’t In this video frame grab provided by Michael Cohen, Cohen, (left), interviews actor Ben Stiller for his podcast ‘Mea Culpa’, in New York. Cohen says his new podcast Wanna Be My Baby,” the album’s glorious opening ‘Mea Culpa’ is changing the minds of listeners who supported President Donald Trump. (AP) track. Another standout is “Over You,” a pulsating jewel built on an addictive drum beat and chunky bass. Frazer drums and sings throughout and his more fa- mous co-writer plays guitar and sings backup as they Media make revival soul worthy of Motown and Stax. It is music to dance to, drive to, cook to, celebrate friend- ships to — 2021 starting with the coolest of highs. ❑ ❑ ❑ Lawyer stays in limelight with his podcast Steve Earle & the Dukes, “J.T.” (New West) Steve Earle has recorded tribute albums before, to songwriting mentors Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. But this one is different. Cohen seeks to destroy Trump legacy Maybe that’s because he started recording it just months after his son, Justin Townes Earle, died alone NEW YORK, Jan 10, (AP): The re- to the visage of Derek Zoolander, like we’ve accomplished something in his Nashville apartment of an accidental overdose at habilitation of Michael Cohen has Stiller’s pouty male model persona. extraordinary.” the age of 38. It feels like something he had to do, a reached a surreal new stage: Quizzing Stiller, for his part, said he recognized Cohen, 54, had been scheduled father’s way of grieving. the actor Ben Stiller about his ap- in Cohen the “dichotomy” of fear and to remain in prison until November “J.T.” consists of 10 of his son’s songs and one proach to impersonating him on “Sat- a killer instinct. 2021 but was released in May to This cover image released by Dead original composition, “Last Words.” Oddly, the one Oceans/Easy Eye Sound shows ‘In- urday Night Live.” “I felt like there was a humanity serve the remainder of his sentence new song feels impersonal even as it recounts their troducing...’ by Aaron Frazer. (AP) Since September, President Donald in there that I was trying to connect at home as part of an attempt to slow last phone call. The details are intimate but somehow Trump’s former lawyer and fi xer has with,” Stiller said, adding he didn’t the spread of the coronavirus in fed- generic, and Steve Earle reveals more about their rela- been producing a podcast from the want his SNL impression “to be this eral prisons. tionship in liner notes and interviews. Park Avenue apartment where he is scathing, mean thing.” He was further emboldened to But how can you blame a father for not being vul- serving the remainder of his prison Cohen, on the other hand, seems speak out after briefl y returning to nerable enough in his grief? The hurt could be too raw sentence for lying to Congress, evad- to be going for the jugular, while prison last year in what a federal to be so far out there, the way Steve Earle has been ing taxes and facilitating campaign satisfying his own addiction to the judge ruled was government retalia- throughout his career. fi nance crimes. limelight. tion for Cohen balking at a proposed Still, the more moving homage comes in the care- The show, “Mea Culpa,” has been He rails breathlessly in every show provision of home confi nement that ful curation and performance of the son’s songs. The downloaded nearly 3 million times against the “idiot in chief.” In one re- would have severely restricted his passion Steve Earle and his band, which once included and is available in 37 countries, Co- cent episode of “Mea Culpa,” he com- public communications. Justin in their ranks, poured into them is palpable. One hen said. Before Stiller, featured in plained that the presidential pardon Reception to the show, like to can imagine the heartbroken father, working his way an episode released Friday, guests process had “devolved into a corrupt Cohen himself, has been across the through his son’s impressive but suddenly fi nite cata- have included Rosie O’Donnell, the and transactional circus, with Trump board. So far, Cohen said, “the show log, making careful, loving choices. Ward Polis magician and former “Celebrity Ap- as its ringmaster.” is profi table” for its production com- Steve Earle’s singing is more gruff and hard-edged than prentice” star Penn Jillette, political pany, the Los Angeles-based startup his son’s, but his treatment of his son’s work only highlights Trump cutting short his recent journalists, and current and former Florida vacation and returning to AudioUp. how good it is. He fully inhabits every last song. operatives from both parties, includ- The success or failure of “Mea Cul- Ultimately, “J.T.” does what tribute albums are sup- Variety Washington to double down on his ing James Carville and Anthony Scar- challenge to the election results “sent pa” could serve as a litmus test for the posed to do. It elevates the work of the artist, reminds amucci. viability of the disbarred attorney and us of what great songs he created, and somehow be- my blood pressure through the roof!” The topic of every show so far? Cohen told listeners in his Long Is- other erstwhile Trump loyalists after gins the painful process of sorting through an unfath- OKLAHOMA CITY: A man who has Blistering criticism of the president’s the president leaves offi ce. omable loss. spent 35 years in prison in a murder land cadence. every move. Victory “It’s probably going to wane and be ❑ ❑ ❑ case featured in the book and television Cohen, who once famously relegated into some dark, niche corner series “The Innocent Man” must remain Cohen, despite years of introspec- Paul McCartney, “McCartney III” (Capitol Re- incarcerated even after a judge ordered claimed he would take a bullet for of the culture, where Cohen himself cords) his release, an appeals court ruled. Trump, said he has made it part of tion, has remained at a loss to explain belongs,” said Nick Quah, the found- Add Paul McCartney to the list of artists who have The Court of Criminal Appeals his penance to dismantle Trump’s his unswerving allegiance to a busi- er of Hot Pod, a well-read newsletter been busy making inspired music while grounded due ordered Tommy Ward, 60, to remain legacy and “return this nation to a nessman he feels abandoned him at about podcasts. to the pandemic. imprisoned while the state appeals the place of sanity,” though he catego- the most vulnerable point in his life. In the foreword to his bestselling “McCartney III,” recorded at his home studio earli- lower court’s ruling that he be released. rizes his show as “a news commen- He has likened his fealty to Trump to memoir, “Disloyal,” Cohen acknowl- er this year doesn’t quite match the power and weight Ward and a co-defendant, Karl tary program” instead of an “anti- a mental illness and said he thought of edged critics consider him “the least of fellow aging baby boomer Bob Dylan’s “Rough Fontenot, were convicted and sentenced Trump program.” himself as acting like a drug user in reliable narrator on the planet.” and Rowdy Ways” that came out earlier this year, but to life in prison in the 1984 kidnapping He said he plans to continue his need of an intervention. The White House, for its part, has it’s still worth a serious listen. and killing of Donna Denice Hara- podcast throughout the Biden admin- The “most important victory” of dismissed Cohen’s criticism as “fan “McCartney III” is the third in a trilogy of records way, a convenience store clerk in Ada, istration. the podcast, Cohen said, is that he fi ction” and said it’s “unfortunate where McCartney plays all the instruments and han- Oklahoma. “We cannot fool ourselves into believed some people who once sup- that the media is exploiting this sad dles all the vocals. “McCartney,” his fi rst solo record But a Pontotoc County district judge believing that Trump will just disap- ported Trump changed their minds and desperate man to attack President from 1970 which signaled the breakup of the Beatles, ruled last month that prosecutors with- held key evidence in the case, including pear,” he told The Associated Press.
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