JOE STRUMMER

JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING

• JOE STRUMMER'S BBC RADIO SHOWS NOW AVAILABLE FOR US BROADCAST!
• The late Clash front-man spins his favorite tracks from around the world
• Eight one-hour episodes hosted by Jon Langford
• Great for July/August broadcasts to celebrate THE SUMMER OF STRUMMER!
• JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN - DVD in stores July 8 from Legacy Recordings

Joe Strummer, the legendary gravel-voiced punk-poet from The Clash, loved to listen to music on the radio. Even as he toured the world with "the only band that matters," he still had a dream to one day spin records for the BBC World Service, where he heard the latest UK hits over the shortwave band as a teenager in Africa.

He finally got his wish in 1999, when BBC World Service premiered Joe Strummer's London Calling. Between then and 2002, Strummer hosted a series of programs with a simple format - one man and his eclectic record collection. His globe spanning playlists included many of the rock, reggae and folk artists that inspired the Clash, plus many surprises.

These radio broadcasts inspired many listeners around the world, including film director Julien Temple, who prominently features these programs in his new documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.

"Joe was the ultimate communicator," says Temple. "He made his global audience feel they knew him on a uniquely personal level - intimate, irreverent and inspirational at the same time."

The 14 original half-hour episodes have been edited for broadcast in the US as 8 one-hour programs. Interview clips featuring Joe Strummer, himself, his former Clash bandmates, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave), film-maker Julien Temple and others have been added to create two new 30-minute introduction and epilogue features.

Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers, WXRT-Chicago) hosts these new segments and also introduces Joe before each of his original programs.

• Hosts: Jon Langford / Joe Strummer
• Producers: Joyride Media (Paul Chuffo, Joshua Jackson); Simon Barnett and Andy Norman (BBC content)
• Broadcast Window: July 2008 to June 2009
• Terms: Available only to USA radio broadcasters with FM, AM or HD signals at no cost with no built-in national spots. Not licensed for broadcast on any internet-only station, streaming side-channel, on-demand stream or digital satellite network
• Contacts: Andy Cahn & Eric Molk
  
• PRX / Audioport Subscribers: Search for "Strummer" at www.prx.org or www.audioport.org
• See below for more details on Joe Strummer and The Future is Unwritten
• Hear a sample mix of music from Jango.

PIR Special

GAMBLE & HUFF: THE MUSIC AND THE MESSAGE
(working title)

This new one-hour special looks back on 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, their work at Philadelphia International Records, and their lasting influence they've had on their home city's music and culture.

The show will include the stories behind songs like "Backstabbers," "Love Train," and other PIR hits, some rare tracks, and interviews with the label's best known artists. Gamble and Huff will also discuss their community and housing projects around Philadelphia.

It's currently in production and should be ready to air by the weekend of Feb 22, in time for the end of Black History Month. It will also be timely for early March around their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction on March 10.

Please contact andy.cahn@sonybmg.com if you are interested in this program and we will remind you as soon as it's ready.

WAYLON JENNINGS

WAYLON JENNINGS: NEVER SAY DIE

One-hour radio documentary pays tribute to American legend Waylon Jennings, tells the story behind his final concert at Nashville's Ryman Theatre, and features many musical highlights of that historic night.

• Host: Laura Cantrell
• Producer: Joyride Media (Paul Chuffo, Joshua Jackson)
• Length: 54 or 59 minutes with breaks for local spots.
• Broadcast Window: Begins July 20 2007
• Terms: Available to all US-based radio broadcasters at no cost
• Promotion: 0:30 promo spot included
• Contact: Andy Cahn (212-833-6279) or Eric Molk (212-833-5389)

DISTRIBUTION:

• CD: Mails to stations on Monday, July 23 with new albums listed below
• Request a CD
• PLAY MPE: Download 54-minute show as 7-tracks.
• PRX: Click here for the 59-minute version

By 2000, Waylon Jennings had over 40 years of experience on stage. He started as the bassist for Buddy Holly in the late 1950s, and over the years, Waylon continually grew as a musician and bandleader.

Health problems took their toll on Waylon in the 1990s. He suffered from emphysema, diabetes and had a mild stroke. Despite all that, Waylon wanted nothing more than to get back on stage. In early 2000, he put together a band with many of his favorite musicians, called it The Waymore Blues Band, and booked a show at Nashville's Ryman Theatre.

Waylon many not have known that it would be one of his last concerts. He may not have even cared. His only concern was to pull out all the stops and make this just as memorable as every other time he took the stage.

Throughout this hour, we'll hear many musical highlights of this historic evening, and comments from many of the people who made it possible - Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Chet Atkins, Cowboy Jack Clement, Billy Joe Shaver, his wife Jessi Colter, his son, Shooter Jennings, and even Waylon himself.

Waylon's classic compositions and covers heard throughout Never Say Die include "Good Hearted Woman," "I'm a Ramblin Man" with Montgomery Gentry, "Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter, "Can't You See" and "Trouble Man."

IN STORES JULY 24, 2007:

• Waylon Jennings and the Waymore Blues Band - Never Say Die: The Final Concert Film - Live box set with the show on DVD and 2 CDs.
• The Essential Waylon Jennings
• Request copies of these CDs (also set to mail with the special on 7/23).

MONTY PYTHON RADIO SPECIAL

THE GAZILLIONTH (OR SO) MONTY PYTHON RADIO SPECIAL

A new one-hour Monty Python radio documentary hosted Keith Olbermann.

Host: Keith Olbermann
Producer: Paul Chuffo & Joshua Jackson, Joyride Media
Broadcast Window: Beings June 2007
Length: 54/59 minutes with breaks for local spots
Terms: Available to all USA-based broadcasters at no cost

Contacts:
Eric Molk, eric.molk@sonybmg.com, 212-833-5389
Andy Cahn, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com, 212-833-6279

Request this program on CD for your station

Timely for the 73rd Anniversary of the FCC on June 19, 2007

Monty Python debuted on the BBC nearly 40 years ago, and their mix of everything absurd, obscure and English has inspired generations comedians - from the professionals to the amateur line-quoters. Their skits, films and songs continue to be both poignant and funny today, whether experienced for the first or gazillionth time on TV, film, disc (plastic or vinyl), broadway or anytime a devoted fan is confronted with a cheese shop, a dead parrott or a shrubbery.

Between excerpts of their finest moments, Cast members Eric Idle, John Cleese and Terry Jones (with help from Python geek/historian Kim Howard Johnson) look back on the men, the myths, and legends behind them. Musician Mark Stewart analyzes the musical works that are equally as influential as their skits and films. Radio broadcasters Michael Berger and Jeff Prescott discuss Python's impact on concerned citizens of San Diego and the FCC. Carol Cleveland, a Python in everything but the title, adds what it's like to be a real woman.

The Gazillionth (or so) Monty Python Radio Special is hosted by television and radio personality Keith Olbermann. He can currently be seen and heard injecting Monty Python references into his coverage of news, politics and sports on The Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC), The Dan Patrick Show (ESPN Radio) and Football Night in America (NBC-TV).

Content advisories includes references to the human anatomy (bodyparts and ailments), ranging from clinical terminology from medical journals, textbooks and diagnoses, to English slang commonly featured in PBS broadcasts of classic BBC programs. Full transcripts, including song lyrics, can be provided on request.

CASH GOSPEL SPECIAL

Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace

One-hour radio documentary explores Johnny Cash's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel recordings and performances.

Host: Rodney Crowell
Producer: Joyride Media (Paul Chuffo, Joshua Jackson)
Length: 59/54 minutes with two breaks for local spots
Broadcast Window: Begins May 2007
Terms: Available to all US-based radio broadcasters at no cost
Promotion: 0:30 promo spot included on CD

Contacts:
Andy Cahn, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com, 212-833-6279
Eric Molk, eric.molk@sonybmg.com, 212-833-5389

Preview/download audio and other details online from the PRX.

Request a broadcast CD of this program.

When a young man named Johnny Cash tried to get his first record deal, he told Sam Philips of Sun Records that he was a Gospel Singer. Philips said, “No Thanks,” but that didn’t stop Cash from recording and playing gospel songs. In time, Cash took his faith a lot further. He became a biblical scholar, a religious writer and even an ordained minister.

In this one-hour radio special, we’re going to hear about the spiritual world of Johnny Cash from family and friends. Interview subjects include his son, John Carter Cash, musicians Marty Stuart and Larry Gatlin and biographers Patrick Carr and Dave Urbanski.

Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace also contains more than a dozen of Cash’s best known gospel songs, including both traditional and original compositions. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Here Was a Man,” How Great Thou Art” and many more works are featured alongside stories of how Cash was inspired to record these timeless spirituals.

SLY RADIO SPECIAL

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR

One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left behind.

Host: Ben Fong-Torres
Producer: Paul Chuffo & Joshua Jackson, Joyride Media
Broadcast Window: Beings May 2007
Length: 54/59 minutes with breaks for local spots
Terms: Available to all USA-based broadcasters at no cost

Contacts:
Eric Molk, 212-833-5389, eric.molk@sonybmg.com
Andy Cahn, 212-833-6279, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com

Preview/download audio online from the PRX.

Request a broadcast CD of this program

Seven musicians walked on the stage, some were black, some white, some were men, some women, and all of them were dressed in bright, colorful outfits. That was Sly and the Family Stone, and for seven wild years (1967-1974), they left a mark on music and culture that continues to inspire countless musicians - both black and white. Members changed, times got rough, but Sly and the Family Stone's sound and message of love and unity still speaks to the world today.

FAMILY AFFAIR is hosted by Ben Fong-Torres, and includes a wide range of Sly & the Family Stone tracks - from the big hits ("Dance to the Music," Everyday People," and others) to deep cuts from all their albums. Some songs accentuate the points made by the many interview subjects, others speak for themselves. All of them stand up as examples of Sly Stone's "watershed point in the development of rhythm and blues," as detailed by biographer and journalist Joel Selvin.

Band members Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Greg Errico and Andy Newmark provide rarely-heard, first-hand accounts of the zeniths and nadirs of Sly Stone's universe, taking us from their family roots to their mainstream success to later sessions "surrounded by really crazy people...out there in the twilight zone." Musicians Isaac Hayes and Chuck D, however, break down how music from all those episodes influence d Sly's contemporaries as well as future generations of musicians.

ELVIS PRESLEY GOSPEL RADIO SPECIAL

HE TOUCHED ME: ELVIS' GOSPEL MUSIC

One-hour radio documentary about Elvis Presley's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel recordings and performances.

This program is hosted by singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell and produced by Paul Chuffo (Joyride Media) - the same team behind the acclaimed Roy Orbison, Ralph Stanley and Charlie Poole radio specials.

"Religion always played an important part of Elvis' life and quest of his purpose in life. He was a searcher of knowledge and is a much more intelligent person than has been documented in history so far." - Jerry Schilling

MANY OF THE CLASSIC IMAGES OF ELVIS PRESLEY INVOLVE SOME SORT OF HIP SHAKING AND KNEE WOBBLING. AFTER ALL, HE WAS THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL, AND WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED IN HIS SHORT LIFE CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER.

BUT ALL THROUGH HIS CAREER, THERE WAS A SECOND TRACK. ELVIS WON THREE GRAMMYS IN HIS LIFE, AND NONE OF THEM FOR ROCK AND ROLL. ALL THREE WERE FOR RELIGIOUS RECORDINGS. ELVIS SANG A LOT OF GOSPEL MUSIC, AND IN THE NEXT HOUR, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR HOW DEEP THOSE GOSPEL ROOTS RAN.

WE'RE JOINED BY LIFELONG FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE JERRY SCHILLING, JOE MOSCHEO OF THE IMPERIALS QUARTET AND GORDON STOKER OF THE JORDANAIRES.

• Host: Laura Cantrell
• Producer: Paul Chuffo (Joyride Media)
• Length: 59-min and 54-min versions available
• Terms: Avail for all US radio broadcasters at no cost
• Distribution: On CD or from PRX (click to preview or download audio)
• There are no national spots built into the program
• Broadcast window begins on Friday April 6

Song List:
(* = music bed or excerpt).

*So High
*Crying in the Chapel
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
If the Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side
*I, John
Where Could I Go But To The Lord
Milky White Way
*His Hand in Mine
Run On
*Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Peace in the Valley
*In My Father's House
He Touched Me
*Mansion on the Hill
Amazing Grace
You'll Never Walk Alone
*Somebody Bigger Than You and I
Bosom of Abraham
*How Great Thou Art

All music is also featured on the new 2-CD set Elvis Presley: Ultimate Gospel in stores now from Sony BMG Music.