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Indigo Girls help pal get closer to fine
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Note to self: If ever in trouble, call the Indigo Girls.
Thursday night, a sold-out crowd packed the listening room at Eddie’s Attic to see Amy Ray and Emily Saliers and the show they’d organized to help pay the medical expenses of a friend, Janet McLaughlin.
The roster was winning: Matthew Kahler, with his James Taylor-esque folksy crooning; Sandra McCracken, a petite blond Nashville resident with a big, whiskey-raspy voice; and the funkalicious groove of Trina Meade and Tomi Martin from Atlanta’s Three5Human.
McLaughlin, a Nashville singer-songwriter who suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage in December, also performed for the first time since her illness.
The Indigo Girls’ performance of favorites like “Galileo,” “Closer to Fine” and “Ghost” turned into a giant singalong, and “Kid Fears” featured Meade blowing the roof off Michael Stipe’s part.
The night also was a homecoming of sorts.
Eddie Owen first booked the Decatur natives more than 20 years ago at Trackside Tavern. He sold Eddie’s Attic in 2002 but returned as director of
operations just over a year ago.
“There wouldn’t be an Eddie’s Attic without Emily Saliers and Amy Ray,” said Owen, who spent the night wandering through the crowd with a giant grin on his face, occasionally popping onstage to sing harmonies.
And Martin seconded that notion.
“They’re the representatives of what Atlanta is really about — people like Amy and Emily. Now if they’d only let them write the Atlanta song …”
Dallas Austin, you listening?
CNN anchor laughs it off
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, whose ladies room chatter found its way onto her newscast, bounced back two days later with a “Top 10 List” of excuses on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
The mishap had happened Tuesday when Phillips, still wearing her wireless microphone, visited the loo while CNN aired President Bush’s speech from New Orleans. For a minute or so her voice commingled with his, as she was heard telling an unidentified woman how great her husband is, then mentioned that her sister-in-law is “a control freak.” Only then was she alerted that her mike was live.
Top Ten Kyra Phillips Excuses Presented by CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips:
10. “Still haven’t mastered complicated on/off switch.”
9. “Larry King told me he does this all the time.”
8. “How was I supposed to know we had a reporter embedded in the bathroom?”
7. “I honestly never knew this sort of thing was frowned upon.”
6. “Couldn’t resist chance to win $10,000 on ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’ “
5. “I was set up by those [expletive] at Fox News.”
4. “Oh, like you’ve never gone to the bathroom and had it broadcast on national television!”
3. “I just wanted that hunky Lou Dobbs to notice me.”
2. “OK, so I was drunk and couldn’t think straight.”
1. “You have to admit; it made the speech a lot more interesting.”
Sick bay update
Jessica Simpson limped her way through an appearance Friday on “Today.” It was the first time the singer has performed since injuring a vocal cord a week ago, but she only made it through one song before her voice cracked.
Simpson croaked her way through “I Belong to Me,” but when it came time to hit a high note on “With You,” her voice cracked. She paused for a moment and said, “All right, I tried that one,” before finishing the tune. “That had to be the most nerve-racking thing you’ve ever done in your life,” said “Today” co-host Matt Lauer.
The 26-year-old singer tried to soothe her voice with a concoction that Lauer described as “gnarly looking.” Simpson said her vocal coach had made the “nasty” mixture. “I busted a blood vessel in my vocal cord,” she told Lauer. “Next time I sing, I’ll be singin’ my booty off.”
Simpson, who has a new album, “A Public Affair,” canceled a planned appearance on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” earlier this week. She appeared on MTV’s Video Music Awards on Thursday night, presumably to make nominee and ex-hubby Nick Lachey uncomfortable, but did not sing.
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Jazz pianist Horace Silver is 78. Sportscaster Terry Bradshaw is 58. Actor Mark Harmon is 55. Drummer Jerry Augustyniak of 10,000 Maniacs is 48. Country drummer Paul Deakin of the Mavericks is 47. Actor Keanu Reeves is 42. Actress Salma Hayek is 40. Actress Cynthia Watros (“Lost”) is 38. Singer K-Ci of K-Ci and JoJo is 37. Bassist Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit is 29.
Sunday: Actress/game show panelist Kitty Carlisle Hart is 96. “Beetle Bailey” creator Mort Walker is 83. Country singer Hank Thompson is 81. Actress Anne Jackson is 80. Singer-guitarist Al Jardine of the Beach Boys is 64. Guitarist Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols is 51. Actor Charlie Sheen is 41.
Contributing: Lizzie Breyer and news services. If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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