Evening Blues Preview 7-29-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 2:47pmThis evening's music features delta blues singer and guitarist Tommy McClennan.
This evening's music features delta blues singer and guitarist Tommy McClennan.
There has been a lot of talk amongst the chattering classes lately about Obama looking the other way as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have been supporting the local al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria against the Assad government. For a long period of time American arms "accidentally" flowed freely into the hands of the radical Islamist jihadis of al-Qaeda and ISIS. Then the "journalism" outlets started to get on board with the program.
It comes out now that Obama has specifically encouraged his "vetted moderates" to cooperate more closely with the Islamists:
This evening's music features Chicago blues harmonica player Big Walter Horton.
Americans are intimately familiar with the city of Fallujah. It's where the Sunni resistance to the occupation of Iraq was born, and where nearly 100 American soldiers lost their lives in the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War. More than 1,500 civilians were killed and over 70,000 buildings were destroyed in those battles.
This evening's music features soul singer Wilson Pickett.
This evening's music features r&b musician Sly Stone.
This evening's music features Louisiana blues musician Lightnin' Slim.
This evening's music features blues singer Georgia White.
The Fall of Ramadi is becoming a game-changer. Not for the defeat itself, but for the response. In particular, the military offensive to retake Ramadi.
The most obvious element of how things have changed is the composition of the Baghdad army.
This evening's music features blues rocker Rory Gallagher.