FEATURED ON
NBC NEWS RADIO
Culture
Shocks
With BARRY LYNN
KCAA 1050 AM 106.5 FM
Fridays at 3 p.m.
Culture Shocks
Show Summary
05/24/19
Rebecca Loebe was on the very first season of "The Voice" and was featured on the compilation album for that year. She did not win, however, and she and Barry discuss what her life has been like since, 5 albums later. They chat about touring with other performers, the sometimes disgusting behavior of club owners. and how she picks the songs to cover.
They play her cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" (done with Betty Soo and Grace Pettis, two other Austin-based songwriters), and several of the songs on her new CD, "Give Up Your Ghosts". See YouTube HERE
And, why does Austin produce such a enormous number of singers (could it be the water)? See Rebecca's website HERE
In Barry's view, Bill Baird should be in every American history book. He brought two of the most significant privacy issues to the United States Supreme Court, including Eisenstadt v. Baird which established the right of unmarried persons to have access to birth control. It established a right to privacy cited by the Court in cases involving LGBTQ rights and abortion as well. Bill was arrested and jailed in the Sixties in 5 states for lecturing about contraception and/or distributing birth control devices. After a horrific incident he witnessed at a Harlem hospital, he dedicated his life to the idea that women--and only women- had the right to make decisions about when or whether to have children. And now 87, he is still fighting government efforts to restrict womens' moral and legal reproductive choices. Read article... HERE
Read more... HERE
Bill and Barry discuss how the anti-choice movement if fueled almost entirely by religious groups making religious arguments and are involved in nearly constant deceit and disinformation. They also explore the pathetic job done by the mainstream media in covering important aspects of this debate, even in the midst of huge legislative initiatives being passed throughout the country.
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