The James Logan Courier

By Mary Morningstar, VOA News
Washington

Last year, Bon Jovi became the first rock band to reach Number One on Billboard's Country Singles chart. Now, Bon Jovi continues to explore its Nashville influences on a new album.

Bon Jovi's latest album, Lost Highway, is not a Country record, but it was inspired by Nashville's creative community. The band collaborated with some of Music City's top songwriters, including Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson. Dann Huff, a Nashville hitmaker for Faith Hill, Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban, co-produced the album.

Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi says he shares a common bond with Country music's storytellers, which made Lost Highway's sound a natural progression for his band.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, June 8:

Every time a song is played on the radio — whether it's Internet, satellite or old-fashioned terrestrial (AM/FM) radio — the broadcaster is required to pay a royalty fee for use of that music. Fair so far. How the fees are assessed, however, is not so fair.

Terrestrial radio only pays royalties to composers. Performers are not compensated, because radio stations argue that drawing listeners to their music is essentially free advertising.

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – after 1719) was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693.

She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639-1699), and his wife Mary Sibley (1644-1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley (1657-1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. Joseph B. Felt quotes in the The Annals of Salem (1849 edition) vol. 2, p. 476 [from the town records]:

March 11, 1692 – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John [husband of Tituba] to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent."

See Mary Walcott's deposition in the Salem Witch Trials, free from the University of Virginia.