This is a special edition of “Big John Howell’s Country Chronicles” featuring Waylon Jennings. Before Waylon died in 2002, John had several long conversations with him both in person and over the phone. On this show you’ll hear John’s first conversation with Jennings as Howell almost hangs up on an …
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Big John Howell’s Weekend Diversion, 7/17/2010
This weekend, John has an extended conversation with recording artist Rockie Lynne.
A new guitar and spiked hair
I spent many happy hours recently watching my 6-year-old son, Will, wrestle with his new guitar. With his freshly spiked hair and shirt collar turned up, he’d strike a pose on the footstool in front of a full-length mirror and belt ‘em out while flogging his “Little Martin.” Thrashing his …
Covers of classics offer a new perspective
My son Will is old enough now to understand that there are many versions of the same songs. His almost-8-year-old ears are starting to differentiate between great, good, bad and horrific versions of the same tunes. I’ve spent some of this past year playing various artists’ versions of the same …
Leave the Fireworks to the Sober and the Professionals
Let me say for the record, I’m as PATRIOTIC as the next guy, maybe more so because I have an educated understanding of history and am better read than most. That being said, I can’t understand how setting off backyard fireworks for five solid days, until all hours of the …
We Need Heroes
John was incensed by this story from Toledo, Ohio, about an autistic woman who was raped in broad daylight, while no one stopped to intervene. Here is what John had to say on the air about this story:
February Recommended Reading
As mentioned recently on the show …
Non-fiction:
The Second Civil War by Ronald Brownstein (2008). Why do we hate each other? Right vs Left? GOP vs Dems? Great book on how politics has become a death match.
Politics Lost by Joe Klein.How consultants have killed political personalities. How being yourself is now considered a non-starter.
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Big John Howell’s Weekend Diversion, 7/24/2010
This is a special edition of “Big John Howell’s Country Chronicles” featuring Waylon Jennings. Before Waylon died in 2002, John had several long conversations with him both in person and over the phone. On this show you’ll hear John’s first conversation with Jennings as Howell almost hangs up on an …
posted at 7:00 pm on July 24, 2010
Big John Howell’s Weekend Diversion, 7/17/2010
This weekend, John has an extended conversation with recording artist Rockie Lynne.
posted at 5:00 pm on July 17, 2010
Big John Howell’s Weekend Diversion, 7/10/2010
On this week’s show, Big John reviews the media’s crying about the Gulf oil spill U.S. Coast Guard press restrictions. Producer Keith Conrad carps about NASA’s new outreach program to the Muslim world, and an edition of “Patriots or Perps?”. Plus, a quick review of “The Best of Blago”!
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posted at 7:00 pm on July 10, 2010
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