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Here's the word on the street: Get ready for fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged a cappela hymns!
Mike Ragogna: Laughing Down Crying: A Conversation with Daryl Hall, Plus "Raw African-American Gospel" and Chadwick Stokes Exclusives Mike Ragogna 2011
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Here's the word on the street: Get ready for fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged a cappela hymns!
Mike Ragogna: Laughing Down Crying: A Conversation with Daryl Hall, Plus "Raw African-American Gospel" and Chadwick Stokes Exclusives Mike Ragogna 2011
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The two are so pathetic in their slow-burning need for one another, with Keach and Tyrrell so adept at circling each other, that the scenes focused on them are almost painful to watch.
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Collier welcomes passion projects with antiheroes and slow-burning stories that may not attract broad audiences.
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The Heinlein was a slow-burning fuse, with the Ripley's book standing in as a detonator.
MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction? 2009
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Fans of "The Weir" - and there had better be some, for Scena Theatre is slated to open its own production in a month - may fret that such continuously dampened acting won't light the play's slow-burning but potent fuse.
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Ormsby has a case of what I call slow-burning stupid.
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Ingushetia is in the heart of this remote region where Islamic radicals are waging a slow-burning insurrection.
Behind Moscow Airport Bomb, Insurgency Grinds On in Caucasus 2011
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"Rather than a repeat of July 2008, where everything just collapsed, it will be this slow-burning monetary tightening," she says, predicting that it will be 2012 before these anti-inflation measures really start to bite, choking off demand in the emerging world and bringing the oil price back down to earth.
Still-fragile world economy braced for effects of another oil shock 2011
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You can sing it handcuffed to a pole while male dancers pretend to spank your bum if you want, but there's no getting around the fact that S&M is every bit as sexy as you might expect for a song about fetishism written by committee of five people – two of whom were previously responsible for the masterpiece of slow-burning eroticism that was S Club 7's S Club Party.
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