MUSICAL JUSTICE NEWSLETTER - May 2003
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IN THIS ISSUE…
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1. What's Going On?
2. Download of the Month
3. Musical Justice Trivia
4. Coming Soon/Upcoming Releases
5. Current Playlist
6. Listener Feedback


To listen to the Musical Justice webcast, go to:
http://www.live365.com/stations/39801


WHAT'S GOING ON?
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Well, it's the Musical Justice equivalent of a slow news month.
Let's see, the Pernice Brothers and John Eddie came out this past
month. Next month promises Radiohead and Drive By Truckers. Artists
are setting up their summer tours. But all my usual sources are
pretty dry as far as anything that I'm excited to share with
everyone, so we're gonna keep this month's newsletter pretty
brief.
Next month, there will be stories to tell even if I have to make
`em
up myself. ;)

That said, one quick reminder that appeared last month too.
Midwesterners will want to check out Twangfest in St. Louis, Missouri
on June 4th-7th. Among the performers are Jason Ringenberg, Joy Lynn
White, Bobby Bare Jr., Tim Easton and Scott Miller & The
Commonwealth. For more details, go to http://www.twangfest.com/.



DOWNLOAD OF THE MONTH
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Last month, we offered up a rare Over The Rhine MP3 in the file
section on the Yahoo site. We've also added 4 other MP3 out
there
for Musical Justice users to download. For those of you who are anti-
downloading, all of them have come off artist websites, so they are
about as legal as you can get. The additional MP3's are:

Talkin' Al Kida Blues - Dan Bern (from www.danbern.com)
Crossing Muddy Waters (Live) by John Hiatt (from www.johnhiatt.com)
To Washington by John Mellencamp (from www.mellencamp.com)
Gotta Get A Message To You (yeah, the BeeGees song...live) by Jay
Bennett and Edward Burch (from www.bennett-burch.com)

These files will be up for the month of June, and then I'll be
looking to put new ones out there. If you know of any artists who
have posted rare tracks on their websites, send me an e-mail. The
web address for the files section is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musicaljustice/files/.



MUSICAL JUSTICE TRIVIA
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1. This band, a 2002 inductee into the Rock Hall of Fame, backed Bob
Dylan on his 1986 tour. Name them.
2. Which member of Fleetwood Mac contributed backing vocals on Tom
Petty's Hard Promises?
3. This musician has produced records for an impressive range of
artists including Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Los Lobos, Natalie
Merchant, Roy Orbison and The Wallflowers. Who is he?
4. John Mellencamp and Rickie Lee Jones sing together on this track
from Mellencamp's 1985 album, Scarecrow. Name it.
5. Two of alt-country's most widely acclaimed and talented
artists
added their backing vocals throughout the Counting Crows' debut
CD,
August and Everything After. Name them.

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



COMING SOON/UPCOMING RELEASES
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June 3
Never Gonna Let You Go – Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
Shootenanny! – eels
Trouble No More – John Mellencamp
Soul Journey – Gillian Welch

June 10
Hail To The Thief – Radiohead
Fly Below The Radar – Minibar

June 17
Soft Spot – Clem Snide
Decoration Day – Drive By Truckers

June 24
Terroir Blues – Jay Farrar
Liz Phair – Liz Phair
Population Me – Dwight Yoakum



CURRENT PLAYLIST (* = new additions)
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Have You Fed The Fish – Badly Drawn Boy
Fleeting Days - Dan Bern
Uncivilized Love - Gus Black
Fitchberg Street - Doyle Bramhall
The Hell You Say – Cory Brannon
Ends of the Earth – Peter Bruntnell
Impasse – Richard Buckner
I'm Staying Out - Caitlin Cary
You Are Free – Cat Power
Transient - The Coming Grass
Hard Candy – Counting Crows
6Twenty – The D4
Spend the Night - The Donnas
Jerusalem – Steve Earle
Break Your Mother's Heart – Tim Easton
*Who the Hell Is John Eddie? – John Eddie
Failer – Kathleen Edwards
Feel – Feel
*Say You Will – Fleetwood Mac
Cow Fish Fowl or Pig – The Gourds
A Little Like You - Grand Drive
A New Day at Midnight – David Gray
Dual Mono – The Greenhornes
All Right Here – Sara Groves
*Beneath This Gruff Exterior – John Hiatt
We Built A Fire - Donal Hinely
Volume 4 – The Joe Jackson Band
Rainy Day Music – The Jayhawks
The Future That Was – Josh Joplin Group
Where Shall You Take Me? - Damien Jurado
Home Away – Will Kimbrough
Sha Sha – Ben Kweller
Red = Luck - Patty Larkin
Up The Bracket – The Libertines
The Strangest Things – Longwave
Tennessee – Lucero
Marigold - Marty Lloyd
The Fine Art of Self-Destruction – Jesse Malin
Midnight & Lonesome – Buddy Miller
The Instigator – Rhett Miller
Down With Wilco – The Minus 5
Stars & Guitars – Willie Nelson & Friends
How Sweet It Is – Joan Osborne
*Yours, Mine and Ours – Pernice Brothers
Willy Porter - Willy Porter
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
All Right Here - Sam Shaber
Freedom's Child – Billy Joe Shaver
Slippage - Slobberbone
There By Now – Soulscript
The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
Ringo Rama - Ringo Starr
Waking Hour – Vienna Teng
When We Were Small – Rosie Thomas
The Old Kit Bag (UK Import) – Richard Thompson
The Thorns – The Thorns
Up All Night - The Waifs
Red Letter Days – The Wallflowers
Illumination – Paul Weller
Holy Road: Freedom Songs - Lizzie West
Elephant – White Stripes
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@....


See you again in June!
Jeff