As you know we support a few internet radio stations. Namely The Country Bear and All Memphis Radio. If you are a fan of these stations or if you are up on the net and music news you will be aware that they(RIAA) were trying to up the royalty rates for internet radio spins. Well according to Billboard SoundExchange has brokered a deal with these guys and the recording industry to set the rates back to 1995 levels. The rates are based on revenue for the stations. Not being an expert this ...

Time to get rid of the cabin fever and make your way down to Hot Springs Arkansas. The weekend of March 16-17 2007 brings Keith Sykes to a really neat little town, to party with us all. Keith will bring Jed and Kelley along to fill the evenings with song and merriment. They have some great food stops in Hot Springs. More than just BarBQ! Mexican, Ecuadorian, good ole American all situated along a quiet street preserved in antiquity. Very cool architecture frames your stay in a time long gone. ...

WINTER STORM:
Source: Lafayette/West Lafayette, Ind., Journal and Courier

• From Max Showalter, business reporter, 7:35 a.m.

My commute to work also involved dropping my wife off at her job first. When we got in the car at 7:35 a.m. Radio Margaritaville on Sirius was playing a Keith Sykes song, “I Want to Go to the Islands.”

That set the stage for a trip out of our east side subdivision, which had not been snowplowed, then onto Creasy Lane, north to Greenbush ...

By Mark Jordan
Special to The Commercial Appeal
November 3, 2006

Let It Roll
Keith Sykes - Fat Pete Records

A new record from Keith Sykes, the dean of Memphis singer-songwriters, is always a welcome and unexpected gift, like getting a call from an old friend. A distinguished writer who has had his songs recorded by Jimmy Buffett, John Prine and Rosanne Cash among many others, he is the master of the personal epic,those songs seemingly about everyday things that turn ...