Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Love is in the Air!

It's almost Valentines and we wanna give you an opportunity to live the great American Dream. Getting stuff for free to take care of that sweetie you love, wanna love or are in love with for years already. Listen to myself in middays and Mark Rogers afternoons between now and Valentines for your chance to win a dozen roses from Clarksburg City Florists and qualify for a weekend ski getaway to Canaan Valley Resort. Just our way of saying thanks for listening. (and if you're like me....you wanna make some points with the one you love.) Mark will draw the Grand Prize winner on Valentines Day.

Coming soon details on some ways you can help folks here in West Virginia with MS.

Now some rock info heard on-air and off....

Def Leppard's forthcoming album, Songs From the Sparkle Lounge, is expected to be issued on May 6. The band has also revealed working titles of 11 cuts slated for the disc. Sparkle Lounge's first single will be "Nine Lives," a tune co-written and featuring a guest appearance by country star Tim McGraw.
DefLeppard.com

Foreigner have added shows to their 2008 itinerary. More than two dozen North American dates are scheduled, stretching from a Feb. 21-22 engagement in Temecula, Calif., through a Sept. 20 show in Primm, Nev.
Pollstar

Street Survivors was the last album the classic line-up of Lynyrd Skynyrd released -- three days before the 1977 plane crash that claimed the lives of three of its members, including singer Ronnie Van Zant. That landmark disc has been given the deluxe treatment and will be re-released on March 4th in celebration of its 30th anniversary. They recorded the album twice, and that previously unreleased first version will be packaged together with the final version. In addition, the deluxe re-issue will also include the never-before-issued last-known recordings of that line-up -- five songs performed at a Fresno, California concert less than two months before the plane crash. Among the songs on Street Survivors are "You Got That Right," "That Smell" and "What's Your Name.


John Mellencamp was supporting former Senator John Edwards in his bid for the White House. But since Edwards has dropped out, Mellencamp has not said if he is backing anyone else. A Democrat, Mellencamp's not pleased with Republican candidate John McCain playing two of his songs -- "Our Country" and "Pink Houses" -- at his campaign rallies. Mellencamp has not gone on record regarding his feelings about this, but there are reports that his office is in touch with McCain's asking the Senator to cease and desist. Tom Petty had a similar situation with McCain, asking him to stop playing "I Won't Back Down." Hillary Clinton has been playing Petty's "American Girl." Bruce Springsteen had a similar situation in 1984 when Ronald Reagan played "Born in the U-S-A."

Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and his Raising Sand collaborator Alison Krauss will perform together at the 2008 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for June 12-15 in Manchester, Tenn. Other acts set to play at the seventh annual fest include the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and Band singer-drummer Levon Helm. As expected, Led Zeppelin will not appear at Bonnaroo, although the cover band Lez Zeppelin is on the lineup.