TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE


PROMO     7/27/2008  "So You Wanna Be a Rock Star"
*When somebody asks Josh Ritter what kind of music he plays, sometimes
he ends up lying.  After all, Ritter's music is hard to describe - a
little bit rock n' roll by way of Bruce Springsteen with a twist of Bob
Dylan.  Anyway you describe it, Josh Ritter has arrived.  In this hour
of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll get inside the music of one of
music's new stars.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "So You Wanna Be A Rock Star"


0:00 - 22:37        SEGMENT 1: (22:38)
            Sticky Fingers is a tribute band whose members
            impersonate The Rolling Stones. Steven Kurutz spent a
            year with them and wrote about it in a book called "Like
            A Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of A Tribute Band."  He
            talks with Steve Paulson about the top echelon of tribute
            bands, and the nature of their success. Also, pianist
            Christopher O'Riley performs the classics but also covers
            the rock music of his own time.  He tells Jim Fleming
            about playing the music of the late singer-songwriter
            Elliott Smith, whose music he performs on an album called
            "Home to Oblivion."  And we hear examples. 
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

22:38 - 23:07  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

23:08 - 35:36       SEGMENT 2: (13:30)
            TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris
            Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band
            Sloan.  Also, Steve Lopez is the author of "The Soloist,"
            a book about a homeless musician named Nathaniel Ayers. 
            Lopez talks with Anne Strainchamps about how he found
            Ayers and what he learned from him.  
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

35:37 - 36:06       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

36:07 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (15:53)
            Josh Ritter is a folk-rocker who's being called the heir
            apparent to Dylan and Springsteen.  He joins Steve
            Paulson in the TTBOOK studios in Madison, Wisconsin to
            perform a few songs and to talk about his music. 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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