On his show earlier today, Hugh Hewitt was touting a new website he helped launch. It's Amaze.fm, and it's:
… a community of music makers and lovers hoping to restore some of that lost quality to what we call "popular" music.
Artists upload their music to be listened to, rated, reviewed, and tagged
Fans choose the songs that make it to the radio by listening to and rating songs weekly
Each week the highest rated songs from Amaze.fm gets played on nationally-syndicated radio.
Hewitt is playing clips from the site and will feature the highest rated song each week.
Hewitt was also talking about Rep. Jack Murtha, the contemptible swine who called the Haditha Marines "cold-blooded murderers" (they've since been cleared). Last week Murtha said many of his constituents are racists, then apologized, and now has "clarified" his remarks by "explaining" that western Pennsylvania is full of rednecks.
You're probably wondering what in the world Jack Murtha has to do with Amaze.com. Well, I'll tell you.
In "honor" of Murtha, Hewitt played a song posted to Amaze.com, Redneck Date by Perry L Nunley. Folks, that's the best damn song I've heard in a long time! Go listen, and crank it up!
Then listen to the other Nunley songs. Waiting On The Mailman is a nice little country blues number with a punch line that just cracked me up. Empty Bottles is another simply terrific song. And finally, listen to his soldier's song, When Freedom Rings. Damn, this guy's good!
I’ve got thirty rounds of justice in my magazine. I back it up with a Navy F-18. The business end on an Apache, Is trouble like you ain't seen. I’m the one who answers when freedom rings.
Remember the name — Perry J Nunley. If record companies don't beat a path to his door, there's something wrong with that industry.
(Note: The site was down for a long time this evening — I suspect 90% of Hewitt's audience went there and took out the server. It's up for now, but if you can't reach it, try again later.)
