Tonight's Evenng Blues (Weekend Edition) will be hosted by me. It will feature an eclectic mix of artists and music including Jimi Hendrix, The Coasters, Freddy Fender, The Kinsgmen, The Grateful Dead, Bob Maley, Leadbelly, and The Rolling Stones that I'm calling not quite country.
Some examples:
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Glendale Train
This evening's music features r&b singer and sax player Bull Moose Jackson.
This evening's music features jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
This evening's music features delta blues harmonica player and singer, also a member of the Jelly Roll Kings, Frank Frost.
This evening's music features Chicago blues harmonica player and singer Shakey Jake Harris.
One year ago yesterday President Obama ordered the bombing of ISIL.
That's enough time to take stock of what we have and haven't accomplished.
There's been 5,946 coalition airstrikes, almost all of them American, nearly evenly divided between Iraq and Syria.
This evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist and singer Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson.
This evening's music features Texas blues singer and guitarist Mance Lipscomb.
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:
