Long before we started Sharkforum Mike Westerfield was cutting prodigious trails through the cyber-wilderness with his web-based radio station "Sisyphus Tracks." In addition to providing excellent broadcasting of such brilliants as Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt and the like, he has also provided more than one broadcast to up-and-comers such as yours truly. In fact, I believe so strongly in the value of this thing that I'll personally send a copy of my last disc "Fear Not The Breakdown" to anyone who pledges $60 or more. (That's a bonus - you still get to pick one of their premiums if I'm clear on that.)
It's precisely this type of application that we support here at Sharkforum, and it would be a damn shame if Mike had to pull the plug due to lack of support. Following is information on his pledge drive - please give what you can.
It's precisely this type of application that we support here at Sharkforum, and it would be a damn shame if Mike had to pull the plug due to lack of support. Following is information on his pledge drive - please give what you can.
STRR Summer Pledge Drive: Your $ support is critical to STRR's rolling our stone not only over the coming months, but days. We are lagging well behind not only our modest goal, but our short-term needs simply to stay afloat; we thus are pulling out all stops to get your attention, and have added new book/DVD choices, in addition to the Dylan-related titles, for Stone Gold and up pledges (Willie Nelson's new book, The Tao of WIllie, and the DVD of the fascinating study of Townes Van Zandt, Be Here to Love Me), as well as an additional book - Peter Guralnick's classic Lost Highway - for Touchstone pledges. In addition, all new or renewing members will receive from 6 - 20 CDs (updated to include many of the new releases we're currently playing) to further thank you for your support. You may direct all questions to pledge@sisyphustracks.com, and you may email us your pledge (and premium) choices this way as well.
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Latest releases added to STRR rotation: Allison Moorer, Getting Somewhere (Jun 13, Sugar Hill); Sam Bush, Laps in Seven (Jun 13, Sugar Hill); Dave Alvin, West of the West (May 30, Yep Roc); Slaid Cleaves, Unsung (May 23, Rounder); Johnny Cash, Personal File (May 23, Sony); Dr. John, Mercernary (May 23, Blue Note); Alejandro Escovedo, The Boxing Mirror (May 2, Back Porch); Casey Driessen, 3D (May 9, Sugar Hill); Jeffrey Foucault, Ghost Repeater (May 23, Signature); Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way (May 23, Sony); Pete Seeger, American Favorite Ballads 4 (May 23, Smithsonian Folkways); Tim Easton, Ammunition (May 16, New West); Neil Young, Living with War (May, Reprise); Paul Simon, Surprise (May 9, WB); Yonder Mountain String Band (May 9); Luka Bloom, Innocence (Mar 23, Cooking Vinyl); Albert Lee, Road Runner (Apr, Sugar Hill); Willie Nelson, You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Mar, Lost Highway); Tom Russell, Love and Fear (Mar, Hightone); Scott Miller & the Commonwealth, Citation (Mar, Sugar Hill); Bryan Sutton, Not Too Far from the Tree, (Mar, Sugar Hill); Old Crow Medicine Show, Down Home Girl EP (Jul 26 rel, Nettwerk); Idgy Vaughn, Origin Story (Mar); Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Apr 25); Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, All the Roadrunning (Apr 25); Terry Allen, Pedal Steal (Feb, Sugar Hill); Gibson Brothers, Red Letter Day, Duhks, Your Daughters and Your Sons (reissue, first released 2002), and Chris Thile & Mike Marshall, Live Duets (all Jan, Sugar Hill). Van Morrison, Pay the Devil (Mar); Eric Taylor, The Great Divide (Mar); Norman & Nancy Blake, Back Home in Sulphur Springs (Jan 31, Dualtone).
Sounds like a great idea, Dave. If the Program contin ues to exist, why don't you put a link to it up on our front page here, say on the left under a little rubric, "suggested" or something?