2011年9月28日星期三

She and Auerbach hit it off immediately

Who: A 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio who will release her second Rosetta Stone full-length album Tell Me on February 8. The record is part of the young singers ongoing collaboration with Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach, who has produced both of her albums and provided her big break when she sang on the Keys Attack and Release in 2007. Sounds Like: A disarming collision of stark country balladry, dynamic alternative rock and arty electronic pop. Mayfields vocal delivery often recalls the bold, plaintive drawl of Lucinda Williams, but her taste for oblique lyricism and unusual musical textures owes more to the anything-goes alternative country of Neko Case and Wilco.Black Keys Protg: Auerbach discovered Mayfields first EP White Lies on MySpace when she was still in high school. "Dan sent me a MySpace message," she tells Rolling Stone. "He was like "Hey, I play in a local Rosetta Stone V3 band called the Black Keys." Mayfield was only vaguely aware of them at the time, but her boyfriend was a big fan. "I was like You know that band, you gave me the CD? Were gonna go hang out." She and Auerbach hit it off immediately. "The day we met we recorded eight songs together my songs, his songs, covers," she says. "Theres something to be said about that, how easy it is for us to work together." Becoming Mean: Since Mayfield began writing songs at the age of 11, all of her early romantic experiences ended up documented in music. "I wrote about every first," she says. "Every kiss, first boyfriend, first heartbreak, blah blah blah." With Tell Me, she says shes moved on to being more aggressive in her lyrics. "The new album is kinda me being a dick," she explains. "I put all the meanest actions and thoughts Rosetta Stone English into my songs." Mayfield was afraid that she crossed a line when she made a reference to an exs hometown on the track "Trouble", but Auerbach talked her out of softening her words. "Ive found that its important to be personal," she says, "so I now I try to trust my gut instinct." This would be the longest "extended reach" well ever attempted, and the effort has required BP to push drilling technology beyond its proven limits. As the most powerful "land-based" oil rig ever built, Liberty requires special pipe to withstand the 105,000 foot-pounds of torque the equivalent of 50 Mack truck engines needed to turn the drill. "This is about as sexy as it gets," a top BP official boasted to reporters in 2008. BP, a repeat felon subject to record fines for its willful safety violations, calls the project "one of its biggest challenges to date" an Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 engineering task made even more dangerous by plans to operate year-round in what the company itself admits is "some of the harshest weather on Earth."

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