You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. Yes. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. your got us the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Cut. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Tonight on the world's only rock and roll talk show, we're going to go south of the

border gym to explore some of the most exciting sounds being made in rock music today.

Rock and Espenol, our tour guide is going to be author and music journalist Ernesto Lechner.

Plus we've got reviews of the new albums by Marxist hip-hop underground heroes the coup and the collaboration by Elvis

Costello and the jazz New Orleans legend Alan Tucson as well as your

Desert Island jukebox pick Mr. Kotott, but first as always we have some music news.

You're beautiful, you're beautiful,

you're beautiful, it's true.

Ah, if you've been lucky enough not to have heard that before, that is James Blunt.

The UK's answer in some ways I guess the Dave Matthews or David Gray Light perhaps I don't

know what he is what he is is rich he sold seven million copies of the Back to Bedlam

album this is a story that tickled our fancy

though. Last week we're talking about the Dixie Chicks, right? And there is an

unofficial boycott by American Country Radio against the Dixie Chicks for

having spoken their minds about President Bush.

Despite that, debuted at number one.

Yeah.

Five hundred thousand copies.

Five hundred thousand copies.

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