Gentle Ben
Newsweek, January, 2003 by Seth Mnookin
In his new collection, "Songbook," Nick Hornby devotes a chapter to the Ben Folds Five song "Smoke." Hornby calls it "one of the wisest songs about the slow death of a relationship that I know" and goes on to say it's "lyrically perfect ... it's also one of the very few songs that's thoughtful about the process of love rather than the object or subject. It was a constant companion at the end of my marriage." BEN FOLDS does that to people. He's the kind of artist who speaks passionately and bluntly about his pain (and his joys, and his obsessions, and his pet peeves), and he does it with a degree of maturity and artistry that makes his fans feel as though they've found the perfect musical expression for this or that emotion. "Smoke" is a track on "Whatever and Ever Amen," Folds's...
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