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Midwest Beat
Tuesday: 7-8pm
"Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" is a weekly radio program all about music and the people who make it. The show's mission is to promote and expose regional and national artists of various styles and genres. Especially when they have roots in the Midwest/Chicagoland area, or will be performing in the Chicagoland region.
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Listeners of “Midwest BEAT” know that sometimes host/producer Tom Lounges likes to introduce relatively unknown artists he has newly discovered to his NPR listening audience. Such is the case with this edition's guest, STEPHANIE SAMMONS, an artist Lounges and others in the media predicts is one of the next rising stars in the Americana market.
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Musical guest Pablo Cruise joins Tom Lounges on Midwest Beat.
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American rock guitar icon -- GEORGE LYNCH -- is one of the world's premier guitarists, ranked in the Top 50 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list by Guitar World magazine, and listed among the "Top 10 Metal Guitarists of All Time" by Gibson Guitars.
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The four participating bands represented as guests on this program were -- FloodPlane, Lola Bunnie, Thourn and Departure -- each an original music group hoping to score the top prize of a four hour recording package at The Spot Recording Studio in Schneider, Indiana.
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Will Turpin, founder of Collective Soul, joins Tom Lounges on "Midwest Beat."
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Chicago singer/songwriter M.G. BAILEY-- has made a name for himself as being a "one man band" quite literally -- with a custom built contraption that allows him to create a full band sound while being just one guy.
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Hear an amazing double interview with husband/wife musical power couple -- DAVID FOSTER and KATHARINE McPHEE -- to talk about their careers both apart and together.