Desolation Angel Radio Thursday November 15th, 2012

The Thursday night service at the flying circus, rodeo and rock and roll tent revival show known as Desolation Angel Radio had a couple of themes. It was regional, with a focused lens on Michigan, and it brought out those independent artists, the folks without a label who work, sacrifice and give it all for their art. A couple of songwriters collectives were represented, and a whole lot of talent was on aural display:

• American Mars - Long Walk Home
• Dragon Wagon - County Line
• Doop & The Inside Outlaws - Saturday
• Joshua Davis - Delta 88
• Lindsay Lou and The Flatbellys - Lemon Squeezy
• Katie Grace - Can't Save Them All
• Chris Bathgate - Last Parade on Ann St.
• The Ben Daniels Band - Set "Em On The Run
• 53 Willys - Every Girl
• Misty Lyn & The Big Beautiful - Rita Mae
• Alison Lewis and String of Ponies - Detroit or Buffalo
• Rootstand - The Captain
• Matt Jones & The Reconstruction - Special Forces
• Matt Dmits - St. Christopher

Regular listeners of the show know my standard lines. There's only 3 corporate behemoth labels left, and ClearChannel has over 3,000 radio stations with national disc jockeys setting the playlist. This year, 10,000 CD's were released, but only 1,000 even hit the 10,000 unit sales mark where an artist even starts to break even. Independent artists; true, raw, passionate, real, down in the blood and close to the bone artists are our heart and soul and need to be supported. Listen to this show, buy the band's CD's straight from their website, go see them live. Go see someone this weekend local and live who plays originals. Respect the music, respect the artist. Buy the music. I put Desolation Angel Radio on the air as it's producer/program director/host/engineer and owner free to you, no commercials, no sponsors and the price that I'm asking isn't big. Share this. Share it as many ways as possible; FB, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, email, tin cans tied together with string, however. Thanks for being part of the Desolation Angel Radio congregation and spreading the gospel of roots, blues, country, rock and soul. Peace out Kip