Thursday Music Digest

Another view of concert boycotts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/26/musicians-boycott-countries

Preview of Rock the Bells 2010 on Governors Island in NY Harbor

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/05/rock_the_bells_8.html

Jimmie Rodgers remembered

http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/94953519.html?ref=519

The 2010 Philadelphia Music Project

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100526006146&newsLang=en

The 5 Greatest Songs of All Time?

http://www.wbbm780.com/The-Five-Greatest-Songs-of-All-Time/7328933

R.I.P. to New Orleans singer Bobby Blanque

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2010/05/new_orleans_crooner_bobby_blan.html

Rockin' the Racetrack

http://www.voice-tribune.com/index.cfm?action=app.showDetail&pageid=212&item=1956

A new Hawaiian All-Star band

http://honoluluweekly.com/hotpicks/2010/05/new-hawaiian-all-star-band/

The Opry reopens in Memphis after the flood-in its former location

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAtTXP-YUOo2mWC8hLKaJ4sTMbBwD9FU91U05

And improvisational music does not equal jazz

http://www.newsrecord.org/living/entertainment/improvisational-music-does-not-equal-jazz-1.2269990