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First of all, Let's Rock America would like to thank you for your continued support. Day after day after day after day, you keep tuning in over and over and over and over again. We really do appreciate it. Time to find a new hobby Mom!

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Let's get down to business!

This week, Let's Rock America debuts it very first PODCAST radio show with none other than New York Rock staple The Baghdaddios.

250 years ago (14 in punk years), a very big hearted man with a very BIG MOUTH had something to say. That big hearted guy was Kenn Rowell. Kenn and his friend Neil Richter shared a passion for music and decadence. Together and along with other friends along the way, these passionate musicians began the punk influenced Baghdaddios. Self described as "Pop with a mutated twist"… The Baghdaddios music can be described as an eclectic mix of almost all genres of music…but mutated to the point where no A&R guy in his right mind wouldn't have smoke pouring from is ears after a single listen.

As catchy and energetic as the music is, The Baghdaddios themselves are an acquired taste. Remember that first sip of Cognac you had when you were eight?…you puked your brains out, but the next day, you were on the Cognac again! I know how it is and that's exactly how The Baghdaddios grab you.

The Baghdaddios are even bigger than their awesome music. This is a band that truly lives for the music, the image, THE SCENE! Singer/ songwriter, Kenn Rowell writes tunes about the everyday life…his everyday life…perhaps our own everyday lives. Sometimes politically motivated, sometimes romantically inclined, always energetic and thought provoking. Kenn is a product of New York City and his music conveys an open book of his thoughts about the culture he knows. Just give a listen to the lyrics of any of the plentitude of songs he has given us and you will, no doubt, feel that Cognac rush kicking in!

The history of the Baghdaddios is immense. We won't get into it here…we would rather save that for the Podcast.

Although The Baghdaddios lineup has been a revolving door over the years, Kenn continues to be the driving force. Founding member and drummer Neil Richter seems to have gone around that revolving door numerous times but quite recently found the entrance way once again and joins the current lineup! Along with Kenn and Neil, the current lineup includes Mark Burnham on Lead Guitar and Phil Mcaughk on Bass.
The band has two full length CD's under their belts. The debut Willie Horton Hears a Who and the latest release Autopsy Turvy. The revolving door on this band has been spinning at break neck speed so you'll have to get the actual CD's in order to sort the lineups out.

The band recently invited LRA to a show right in the bowels of NYC at a nifty little joint on 14th Street called Otto's Shrunken Head. The club itself has an aura that seems to be fast growing as a scene leader for lesser known bands. Try to appreciate a club that treats every band as if they were J.LO with a rider and yet each and every one of these bands on a lazy Sunday night are pouring their hearts out playing as if they had a stadium audience to 20 people. I would personally prefer seeing U2 in my living room than at Giant's Stadium and that is exactly what I got.

I know you are tired of reading shit about The Baghdaddios and would like to get to the podcast ASAP. One more parting tidbit. When we mentioned earlier that Kenn and the boys from The Baghdaddios have a big heart, we weren't lying!

The Baghdaddios founded a very cool charity quite a few years ago. New Yorkers Kenn and Neil had a dream that they made a reality by founding a thing called the Blank Fest. Blank Fest is an annual New York based gig that brings the talents of over a dozen bands together in November of every year. The price of admission for the show is…a blanket! Why? Because November is the time here in NYC when Jack Frost starts getting mean. New York City streets still teem with homeless people who freeze their asses off because they ain't like you and me! What better way to be a citizen is there, then to donate some warmth for someone who may very well freeze to death out there without it!

Blank Fest collects the blankets, you see a really cool show and feel good about yourself and THEN….THE BAGHDADDIOS THEMSELVES, ON CHRISTMAS EVE, PERSONALLY HAND THOSE BLANKETS OUT TO PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM.

The pod cast is coming…be patient. First, visit www.baghdaddios.com. Next, visit www.blankfest.com. If you can't make the Blank Fest show, there are other ways you can benefit the homeless through Blank Fest in NYC and also globally. NOW…listen to THE Baghdaddios on LRA radio….