June 2003

Charley Patton - Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues

Bio here.

Bloomberg and others are reporting that the bill is aiming to restore the 35 percent national TV audience cap as well as the ban on newspaper publishers’ buying broadcast stations in the same market. Read it here.

“Williams is living the rock ‘n’ roll life, even at age 50. There’s a new tattoo, a buff body toned by boxing class. She’s arguably at the peak of her musical powers, having just earned an enthusiastic thumbs-up from her toughest critic, her dad. Read it on MSNBC.

Can you believe it… she used drums and even an electric bass! Oh the humanity!

The chances of a neo-folk revivalist actually taking a chunk of the Nashville pie should get worse than odds than winning at a poker machine in Biloxi. Yet despite what appeared to be an insurmountable obstacle, Gillian Welch has joined the ranks of the

The translated transcript of an audiotape made of a prank phone call placed by Miami radio announcers Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero on WXDJ-FM/Miami:

Olga: “One moment. It seems that they are establishing a communication through another line. Maybe we can establish a bridge. Explain this to the president.”

The DJs pretend to explain this to Chavez.

Recorded Chavez: “Yes, yes. Correct.”

Olga: “We’ve just made a communication. One moment President. You will hear some music but it’s only for a few seconds. It’s just to transfer you. One moment. I’m transferring you.”

Chavez: “Yes, yes. Of course.”

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From the Salt Lake Tribune: “I do not favor extreme remedies, unless no moderate remedies can be found,” said Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Instead, he merely wanted “interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies.” Read it here.