The Imus Ranch Record
- 艺人
- Various Artists
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- New West
- 发行时间
- 2008年09月16日
- 专辑类别
专辑介绍
by Mark Deming
There's a 500-pound gorilla in the room when listening to this record, and its name is Don Imus. Conservative radio host Imus found himself in the midst of a firestorm of controversy in 2007 when during a discussion of the Rutgers University women's basketball team, he referred to the players as "nappy-headed hos." While Imus apologized for the remark, it was hardly an isolated incident; on his show, he's also called journalist Howard Kurtz a "beanie-wearing Jewboy," described tennis star Amelie Mauresmo as "a big old lesbo," referred to two athletes from India as "Gunga Din and Sambo," and once told a reporter from 60 Minutes that he hired executive producer Bernard McGuirk because of his skill in telling "nigger jokes." When not spouting racial invective, Imus and his wife, Deirde Imus, operate the Imus Ranch, a cattle ranch in New Mexico where children with life-threatening illnesses (and sometimes their siblings) spend a week as working cowpunchers, caring for and cleaning up after the animals to help the kids build self-esteem (working, presumably, under the theory that children with cancer need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps). Imus has used his high media profile and corporate connections to raise money for the ranch (the children attend for free), and his latest fund-raising project is The Imus Ranch Record, in which 13 country and roots music artists each cover a song Imus has picked out for them. ...
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- @waterblue33( )：乡村摇滚 喜欢主唱的嗓音和乐队的演奏 值得一听