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Monday, November 20, 2006

By CHUCK CAMPBELL
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
"PUBLIC WARNING," Lady Sovereign (Def Jam)

An uncompromising Lady Sovereign offers two options on her insanely addictive single "Love Me or Hate Me:" Love her, and she extends a "thank you." Hate her, and she has a less friendly phrase ending with "you."

The British rapper doesn't say what she thinks of folks who both love her and hate her, yet that's the response she's likely to generate with "Public Warning."

She does weave her self-effacing humor through the booms and bleeps of the bouncy "Love Me or Hate Me," her nasal, exaggerated accent adding delicious spike to the flow.

By RONNA RUBIN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Fans of singer songwriter Nanci Griffith will be pleased by the news that she has just released a collection of intimate torch songs. "Ruby's Torch" contains some songs penned by Griffith and others by some of her musical heroes.

"My fans have been asking for an album like this for years," she tells Kylie Harris on GAC's "The Edge of Country," (Dec.

By CHRISTOPHER RAWSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Thanks to the 1964 movie, "Mary Poppins" is the kind of musical where you find yourself humming the songs on the way into the theater, then greeting their teasing quotation in the overture as a guarantee of musical-comedy pleasure to come.

That guarantee is as good as gold.

By CHUCK CAMPBELL
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
"SATURDAY NIGHT WRIST," Deftones (Maverick)

The Deftones haven't lost their touch, but they're apparently more reluctant to flaunt it if their new "Saturday Night Wrist" is any indication.

One of the best hard-rock groups to emerge in the past decade, the California band indulges itself in exploration beyond its niche, yielding a somewhat disappointing follow-up to its superb self-titled release from 2003 and gripping "White Pony" from 2000.

There's certainly no call for the Deftones to engage in the generic chaos of screamo that results in the anonymous new tracks "FM" and "Rats." If the group entered those cuts in a high-school battle of the bands, chances are they'd lose.

More successful experiments are likewise question marks.

By RONNA RUBIN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
It's no real surprise that Thanksgiving time is family time for Billy Ray Cyrus. And now the father of five can be seen in his Nashville kitchen with daughter Brandi and mother Ruth Ann on GAC's "Turkey Day With Billy Ray," on Thursday, Nov.

By WAYNE BLEDSOE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
In 1996, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra created the closest thing to a Christmas music phenomenon that the post-baby-boomer generation has ever seen.

"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," a nearly bombastic reworking of "Carol of the Bells" with symphony, synthesizer and heavy-metal guitar, became a hit and has since become a perennial favorite.

By CHUCK CAMPBELL
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
"GO: THE VERY BEST OF MOBY," Moby (V2)

"Go: The Very Best of Moby" illustrates that Moby works better with others than on his own and that his best "collaborators" are dead.

That may run contradictory to expectations of the control-freak electronica pioneer who often builds his songs solo.

By RONNA RUBIN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Don't expect to see country star Dierks Bentley make the transition to the big or small screen anytime soon.

"I have no desire to really do any acting," he says.

By CHRISTOPHER BLANK
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
B.B. King was feeling nostalgic for one of his old records.

Not just any of his hundred or so albums, but the monumental "Live at the Regal," released in 1965 _ one of those desert island discs for the blues lover.

Could he ever recapture that magic? Or was the thrill truly gone away for good?

"We started with that sound in mind," said producer Jim Dollarhide.