Thursday Music Digest

Stupid Music alert-Ray Price has been sidelined by health worries and won't be playing at the Stupid Music Fest in Wichita Falls. He'll be replaced by...the Texas Playboys.

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2009/jun/18/headliner-cancels-ray-price-sidelined-by-health/

Defending the polka

http://www.houstonpress.com/2009-06-18/music/defending-the-polka/

Fighting to keep a jazz radio station alive

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_12609017

Time for the Steel Guitar Fest in Hawai'i

http://www.haleakalatimes.com/2009/06/17/news/News/henry_kaleialoha_allen_hawaiian_steel_guitar_fest_includes_concerts_workshops/

And an appreciation of the late guitarist Bob Bogle

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/06/an_early_guitar_master_gone.html