I do a long running blues show at a state univ. in Mass. and one song we have is a jug band version of “Which Side Are
You On?”, an old union song done orig. during the coal
miner strike days. I get a kick out of the line about “the
scoundrels in the White House”. Ha! (Of course you can tell it was recorded during the Bush Adm.; revised lyrics “Don’t follow New World Orders don’t listen to their lies...”) But yes the song does denounce the “scroundrels in the White House”
In Boston WGBH radio, an NPR station, built a “Taj Mahal”
studio complete with big messageboard but later cut staffers and their long-running blues and folk shows (lack of money—also lack of airtime). They wanted to focus on news
and talk programming.
And of course you can guess how that programming tilts.
“You can see why Air America failed. We already have a liberal network in this country, and it’s taxpayer funded.
It’s called NPR.”—Howie Carr
(I know this is Pacifica but it’s public radio regardless)
I know KPFA does have an interesting “collage” show called
Over the Edge done by Don Joyce from the group
Negativland (and he is a big lefty and atheist but the
show can be...interesting). He probably volunteers his
time anyway.
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