Sunday, November 6, 2011

Entertainment option of the week

The Economist dubs Branson, Missouri “No-Sin City”:
It calls itself the live-music capital of the world. To match its theatre-to-resident ratio, New York would need 41,000 theatres. Avant-gardists will find little to applaud, but if you have ever wanted to board a 700-seat showboat to see a violinist in a sequined leotard hang upside down to play “Stairway to Heaven” and then right herself to thank America’s troops while belting out “My Country ’Tis of Thee”, then Branson is for you.
Haven’t we all, deep down, had a life-long desire to see a violinist in a sequined leotard hang upside down to play “Stairway to Heaven” and then right herself to thank America’s troops while belting out “My Country ’Tis of Thee”? I haven’t, as it happens, but I do now.

So here are Dwight Yoakam and K.D. Lang performing Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman’s “Sin City” in 1989:

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