Saturday Music Digest

Musical freedom comes at a price

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/ivanhewett/6711623/Musical-freedom-comes-at-a-price.html

Jimmy Thackery plays workingman's' blues

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091204/ENT/912040320/1033/ENT

John Mayall: Unbreakable

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?storyID=20529

Ravi Shankar gets back to work in India

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/String-Theory/549713/

New Orleans recognized by the Grammy Committee

http://www.examiner.com/x-26614-New-Orleans-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d4-New-Orleans-recognized-by-Grammy-committee

Talking X-Mas music with Aaron Neville

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/12/inquiring_minds_talking_christ.php

The Caz Brothers have to cancel their Christmas show

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11624668

The Portland Ookelele Project

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1855408

Townes van Zandt Shoe box Poems set to music

http://www.the9513.com/townes-van-zandt-shoebox-poems-set-to-music/

And Bela and the Flecktones do Christmas tunes?

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=7615