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Friday, Mar 1, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller

Johnny Cash would have turned 87 this week. To honor the Man in Black on his birthday, folk singer Todd Snider unveiled the new single “The Ghost of Johnny Cash” from his forthcoming album Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3, which will be released March 15th via Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers.

The dark ballad was co-written by Snider and John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny Cash, who died on September 12th, 2003, and June Carter Cash, who passed away just months before her husband in May of the same year.

Snider recorded his acoustic-driven new effort at Johnny Cash’s Cash Cabin Studio (now owned by John Carter) in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The album’s latest release, anchored by sparse, country-blues picking, nods to a recording session at the same studio a few years earlier, when Loretta Lynn made her 2016 album Full Circle. In an interview with Garden & Gun shortly after her album’s release, Lynn claimed she saw the deceased Cash walk into the studio while she was singing.

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Preckwinkle launches first negative TV ad of the runoff

Friday, Mar 1, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Press release…

Lori Lightfoot says she’s running as the change candidate, but the only thing she’s trying to change right now is her record of looking out for powerful interests.

Lightfoot is a wealthy corporate attorney who represented Wall Street banks. During her time as a corporate attorney, she was reprimanded for misconduct after allegations of abuse of power.

Lightfoot defended a Wall Street bank being sued for racial discrimination and Republican politicians trying to protect their power.

Lightfoot, who likes to talk about how she is the “change” candidate, was appointed over and over and over to political appointments by politicians Rahm Emanuel and Richard Daley. Is that change? In those roles, she overruled her own investigators to justify police shootings.

So today, the campaign for Toni Preckwinkle released an ad to tell the truth about Lightfoot’s record. Because the only thing Lori Lightfoot is trying to change is her story.

You just knew something like this was coming soon. Lightfoot has gained serious momentum from her first round win. Preckwinkle has to stop it as soon as she possibly can before the momentum gets out of control.

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Rate Lightfoot’s new TV ad

Friday, Mar 1, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Press release…

Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot released her first TV ad of the runoff election, “Change.” Filmed primarily at Lightfoot’s election night celebration, the ad captures the grassroots momentum that propelled Lightfoot to first place and highlights the importance of electing an independent reformer to bring needed change all across the city. This is Lightfoot’s second TV ad. Lightfoot released her first TV ad, “Light,” on February 6th.

Toni Preckwinkle started running a TV ad on Thursday.

* The spot…

* Script…

“I traveled across the city and saw people struggling with repossessed cars and rising rent,” says Lightfoot in the ad. “With underfunded neighborhood schools and gun violence on their blocks. I know, on a deeply personal level, that we need change. This election is about demanding an independent, accountable City Hall that serves the people, not the political machine.”

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