At 9:30 this morning, Deana Carter will step to a podium in the Grand Ole Opry atrium and announce the nominees for next month's Country Music Association Awards. Although she's one of the fastest rising females in country music, Carter isn't sure...

Background A cloud is just a visible collection of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of both that is suspended in the air. You can look up and see clouds on most days in most places, even in dry regions (like...

Climate Change: A new study indicates that poor Asians burning dung for energy may be a major cause of global warming. It may explain why glaciers are really melting -- and why climate is more complicated than some think.It used to be a straight-line theory...

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[Clouds] is a whole lot more than an exercise in slickness. Second albums have a tendency to lean heavily on promotion after an unknown "hot" property has shot his load on his debut LP, but this is not the case with Miss Mitchell. If it is possible to become an "old pro" between first and second albums, she has done it. Clouds is not slick, it is just smooth, and it is a joy to hear the composer's touch go into those numbers we've heard as Judy Collins' conce...

Joni Mitchell is an individual who defies conceptualization, and in that defiance comes into her own brilliantly. Her second album, Clouds …, is one of the most lyrical, skillful, and utterly distinctive presentations of great talent that has ever had to stand on its own. A superlative song writer, Miss Mitchell is fascinated with womanhood. Her songs explore the joys and travails of being loved and unloved, of looking at the world through the eyes of a female. Clouds shows considerable growth and im...