MUSICAL JUSTICE NEWSLETTER - March 2003
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IN THIS ISSUE…
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1. SXSW Wrap-up
2. March Contest
3. Portable Justice - Final Update
4. Musical Justice Trivia
5. Stuff You Probably Won't Hear Anywhere Else…
6. Coming Soon/Upcoming Releases
7. Current Playlist
9. Listener Feedback


Getting this month's newsletter just under the wire…
To listen to the Musical Justice webcast, go to:
http://www.live365.com/stations/39801


SXSW WRAP-UP
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This year's trip to Austin for South By Southwest was the best in
the 4 years I've attended. My buddy, Jason, and I saw over 30 bands
in 3 days. If you've never been before, just picture non-stop music,
barbeque and beer and you've got SXSW. Over 1000 bands play in
more than 50 venues over four nights. Here are some of the
highlights:

· The Legendary Shakeshakers raised the roof at the annual
Bloodshot Records party. Picture an X-rated revival meeting and
you'd almost have it.
· The Woggles dove into the crowd at Emo's to perform their
classic 60's rock sound and whip the crowd into a frenzy. They
even had the infamous Beatle Bob up on stage doing his Beatle Bob
thing for everyone. (Who's Beatle Bob? Check out
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-03-
14/music_feature23.html)
· Liz Phair debuted songs from her upcoming new CD at a
Starbucks (Yep, a Starbucks).
· Tift Merritt, John Eddie, The Jayhawks and Willie Nelson each
put on great sets during the Lost Highway label showcase. Tift
Merritt's stage presence has improved exponentially since her
performance on the same stage at SXSW two years earlier. WOW!
· Gingersol and The Silos played a "house party" for the
members of the P2 mailing list.
· Up-and-comers Kathleen Edwards and the Raveonettes each
played in-store sets inside a packed Waterloo Records (the
world's greatest record store).
· Saw (and photographed) the top of John Doe's head as I
listened to him play outside a packed Continental Club.
· Austin's SXSW ambassador, Alejandro Escovedo, played a
smokin' "greatest hits" set in front of thousands outside
at Town Lake, followed by a reunited Joe Jackson Band blasting out
his early power-pop classics like "One More Time" and "Is She
Really Going Out With Him?"

New discoveries from the trip that you'll be hearing on Musical
Justice very soon: Josh Ritter, Lucero, Thad Cockrell, The
Ravenettes, Cory Brannon, and Deena Rubinson. You can see pictures
from the trip at the photo link on the Yahoo Group page for Musical
Justice (http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/musicaljustice/lst).
Unfortunately, we couldn't get our camera in to some of the
bigger venues, but you'll still see some great pictures. If you'd
like to hear some of the musical highlights read on…


MARCH CONTEST
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I'm putting together a "commemorative" CD for my trip to
SXSW 2003 and I thought maybe some of you would like to get a copy.
The CD will feature Liz Phair, Alejandro, the Jayhawks, Tift Merritt,
Willie Nelson, the Woggles, the Forty-Fives, the Raveonettes, Thad
Cockrell, Lucero, Josh Ritter, the D4, Kathleen Edwards, Deena
Rubinson, Gingersol and several others.

So here's the offer. I'll send a copy of the CD to the five
Musical Justice listeners who do the best job of promoting Musical
Justice to new listeners. "Best" can mean most creative, the
funniest, most effective, or reaching the biggest number of potential
listeners. All you have to do is come up with the idea and do it and
send me an e-mail about it afterwards. I'll review the ideas with a
couple of my programming assistants and we will determine the
winners. Then I'll feature the winning ideas in next month's
newsletter. Deadline for submissions is midnight EST, April 21st.
Good luck!!



PORTABLE JUSTICE - FINAL UPDATE
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Everything should be in the mail, including the international
requests. If you don't see something by April 7th, please let me
know! Again, if anyone gets a bad one or gets one that's been
damaged in the mail, please e-mail me and I'll send you a
replacement disk right away.



MUSICAL JUSTICE TRIVIA
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1. What singer-songwriter did Steve Earle write the song "Ft.
Worth Blues" in memory of?
2. This artist adds a guitar solo and backing vocals to
Marah's "Float Away". Name him.
3. What singer-songwriter did Lucinda Williams write the
song "Drunken Angel" in memory of?
4. This musician started his career as the keyboard player for the
Everly Brothers and went on to a long solo career as well as
recording with members of REM on Hindu Love Gods. Name him.
5. The term "No Depression" came from a gospel song covered
by Uncle Tupelo. Who was the original performer of "No Depression"?

Answers to these trivia questions can be found on the main station
web page located at http://www.live365.com/stations/39801



STUFF YOU PROBABLY WON'T HEAR ANYWHERE ELSE
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I've got a copy of Richard Thompson's cover of Joni
Mitchell's Woodstock that's on the way to the playlist this month. We
landed some advance tracks from several Yep Roc releases while we
were down in Austin. I'm also happy to have found a couple of
Bloodshot releases I've been looking for for awhile, The Bottle Let
Me Down and Making Singles, Drinking Doubles. The first of those is a
"kids" album which features Alejandro Escovedo's "The Big 1-0"
and Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys doing "It's Not Easy Being
Green". The second is Bloodshot Records' 100th release and it
stuffed to the brim with rare tracks from Ryan Adams, Neko Case, The
Sadies and others. In addition to the Bloodshot stuff, regular
listeners are likely to hear a currently unreleased track from Ryan
Adams and the Pink Hearts called "Charmed" and an acoustic version of
Coldplay's "Yellow".



COMING SOON/UPCOMING RELEASES
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What a month! There is a TON of new stuff coming out this month
likely to excite the MJ listeners. Take a look…

April 1st
Growl – Ray Wylie Hubbard
Elephant – White Stripes

April 8th
Rainy Day Songs – The Jayhawks
World Without Tears – Lucinda Williams

April 15th
Fleeting Days – Dan Bern
Day I Forgot – Pete Yorn

April 22nd
I'm Staying Out – Caitlin Cary
Baby I'm Bored – Evan Dando
High Dive – Maria McKee
Til The Wheels Fall Off – Amy Rigby
Modern Art – Tom Russell

Keep an eye out on the website for special promotional weekends
featuring the Jayhawks and Lucinda Williams!


CURRENT PLAYLIST (* = new additions)
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Demolition – Ryan Adams
Have You Fed The Fish – Badly Drawn Boy
Sea Change – Beck
The Hell You Say – Cory Brannon
Ends of the Earth – Peter Bruntnell
Impasse – Richard Buckner
Blacklisted – Neko Case
The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash
A Rush of Blood to the Head – Coldplay
Hard Candy – Counting Crows
C'mon C'mon – Sheryl Crow
Jerusalem – Steve Earle
Break Your Mother's Heart – Tim Easton
Failer – Kathleen Edwards
Feel - Feel
Cow Fish Fowl or Pig – The Gourds
A New Day at Midnight – David Gray
Dual Mono – The Greenhornes
All Right Here – Sara Groves
Brainwashed – George Harrison
*Volume 4 – The Joe Jackson Band
*Rainy Day Music – The Jayhawks
Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
The Future That Was – Josh Joplin Group
Home Away – Will Kimbrough
Sha Sha – Ben Kweller
*The Strangest Things – Longwave
*Tennessee – Lucero
The Fine Art of Self-Destruction – Jesse Malin
Cure for the Common Show - Marshallcity
Midnight & Lonesome – Buddy Miller
The Instigator – Rhett Miller
The Silver Line – Chris Mills
*Down With Wilco – The Minus 5
Miss Fortune – Allison Moorer
Stars & Guitars – Willie Nelson & Friends
How Sweet It Is – Joan Osborne
No Other Love – Chuck Prophet
*Whip It On (EP) – The Raveonettes
Rise – Kim Richey
*Golden Age of Radio – Josh Ritter
*36 Hours (EP) – Deena Rubinson
Hopeless to Hopeful – Matthew Ryan
Do You Know Me? – Eve Selis
Freedom's Child – Billy Joe Shaver
There By Now – Soulscript
The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
Waking Hour – Vienna Teng
When We Were Small – Rosie Thomas
The Old Kit Bag (UK Import) – Richard Thompson
Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello – Various Artists
Red Letter Days – The Wallflowers
Illumination – Paul Weller
*Elephant – White Stripes
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
The Beauty of the Rain – Dar Williams
Easy – Kelly Willis
Sleepless – Peter Wolf
*Day I Forgot – Pete Yorn
Memory Girls – Warren Zanes



LISTENER FEEDBACK
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If you've got suggestions, trivia questions, comments, likes,
dislikes about Musical Justice, we'd love to hear them. Please e-
mail them to us at musicaljustice4u@....


25% of the way… 3 for 3!!

Until next month…
Jeff