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	Border blaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A border blaster, in contrast to an international broadcast station, was a licensed commercial radio station that transmitted at very high power to the United States of America from various Mexican cities near the border.
		In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical soundtrack of his motion picture American Graffiti.
		The United States never branded the border blasters along its international frontier with Mexico as pirates, but it did regard them as a problem which it attempted to resolve in part by the introduction of the Brinkley Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Border-blasters (1540 words)

	THE BLASTERS
		The Blasters and their entourage are some of the nicest people in the world, so don't hesitate to approach them at the shows to say hello or to ask for an autograph.
		All the Blasters are giving their all to these shows, but Dave really has the fire in his playing and its a great thrill to watch him.
		The situation was that the Blasters have had a chair in the stage with a saxophone, Lee's picture, and his favorite bottle of liquor as a tribute to his memory.
	www.blastersnewsletter.com /Tour/blasreunion0302tourdiary.htm (3919 words)

	Border Radio Show
		The magical sounds and stories of the "X" stations located just on the other side of the border in Mexico from the 1930s to the 1950s are rediscovered in KUT Radio's documentary.
		These letters were all used by the megawatt border blaster that sold a nation on goat testicles, and forever defined what real AM radio would be about.
		These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.
	www.borderradioshow.com (1001 words)

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		Although the Blasters track was issued on the soundtrack, I have yet to confirm that it is actually used in the film; although this film has a certain "cult status", it is nevertheless extremely difficult to locate on the rental market - perhaps because it is as billed, "x-rated".
		The Blasters were invited to record a concert for public television, and were joined by legend Carl Perkins for a brilliant finale (authentic 8x10 promotional photographs from this show are extremely collectible, and have sold for $15-75 at auction); the performance was part of PBS's Sound Stage, and was recorded live in Chicago.
		Although neither Dave Alvin nor the Blasters made an official, live appearance in W.T. Morgan's documentary film, The Unheard Music: X (later repackaged as, X: The Unknown Quantity, The Unheard Music (CBS FOX LD/VHS #620080)) there is an ever-so-brief photo clip of Alvin, amidst the fast-paced, film-collage, "the evolution of X".
	www.davealvinblasterssetlists.com /DaveChronology.htm (8947 words)

	Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters, Wednesday, July 12 at 1:00 pm on the radio stations of MPBN
		Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters, Wednesday, July 12 at 1:00 pm on the radio stations of MPBN
		"Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters" examines the border radio phenomenon that helped reshape contemporary music, modern advertising, the media and American culture.
		Note: Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters was based on this book from the University of Texas Press.
	www.mpbc.org /radio/borderblasters.html (161 words)

	PRX » Pieces » Border Radio: The Big Jukebox in the Sky
		Border Radio: The Great Big Jukebox in the Sky: (Stereo) An hour-long music special on the story of Border Radio.
		Between the 1930s through the 1960s, mega-watt "border blaster" stations set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. broadcast regulations, and beamed programming across the United States and as far away as Europe.
		Turner, one of border radio?s original cowboy singers and pitchmen, and a surprise appearance by Kinky Friedman, humorist and wildcard gubernatorial candidate for Texas in 2006.
	www.prx.org /pieces/8821 (350 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Blasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Blasters surprised a few people who listened to their "roots rock with a slice of New Orleans" sound on the Slash record label.
		Instead they wrote catchy, populist numbers that became hallmarks of American rock, circa the 1980s -- "Marie Marie," "Red Rose," "Border Radio," and the phenomenal "Long White Cadillac." Built around the songs and guitar of Dave Alvin, and sung by his brother Phil, a live Blasters show was a sweat-inducing riot of sound.
		The Blasters, when they hit a groove, such as on "I'm Shakin'" or a blazing version of "I Wish You Would," give lessons in cohesive interplay and musical dynamics.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2002/musicReviews/musicB/blasters.html (361 words)

	www.myspace.com/borderblasters
		Veterans of the Austin music scene, The Border Blasters' Jimmy Ray Harrell and Todd Jagger have been playing together since their first gig at Gruene Hall in 1976.
		The Border Blasters's debut CD entitled "it's TOO MUCH" features an all-star lineup of Austin music legends on both sides of the studio glass, including T.J. "Tiny" McFarland, producer; Joe Gracey, engineer, and special musical guests Kimmie Rhodes, Ponty Bone, Alvin Crow, Freddy Krc, Danny Levin and more.
		The Border Blasters now make the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas their home playing in Marfa, Fort Davis, Alpine, Marathon, Terlingua and anywhere people just enjoy good Texas roots music.
	www.myspace.com /borderblasters (435 words)

	Eye Weekly - The X-audiophiles - 07.21.05
		Well before the arrival of college, online and pirate radio stations, border blasters were writing the book on eclectic programming.
		Set up in the '30s on the Mexican side of the US border, border blasters -- or border radio -- were American stations seeking freedom from US broadcasting regulations.
		Many of these stations were powered by as much as a million watts: their signals reached as far away as Japan and Australia.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.21.05/beat/sample.html (629 words)

	Review: Border Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, And Other Amazing Broadcasters Of The American Airwaves Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford.
		Fowler and Crawford cover the evolution of the "border blasters" that exerted untold influence on American radio and advertising that is felt even today.
		In reading the revised edition, I was struck how these Border Stations had many parallels with the early internet.
	www.radioenthusiast.com /review_border_radio.htm (547 words)

	Amazon.com: Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		They were a born out of the radio age, through stations sometimes called "border blasters." These were high-power AM broadcasters set up just over the Mexican border to beam music, medical miracles and merchandise to the U.S. in a way never heard before on domestic radio.
		BORDER RADIO is a wonderful history of the border blaster stations.
		Superbly detailed, BORDER RADIO covers the evolution of the medium from the early days of the 1930s when hillbilly music and medical quacks ruled the airwaves, to its demise in the 1960s when television and broadcasting treaties silenced the border stations for good.
	www.amazon.com /Border-Radio-Pitchmen-Broadcasters-American/dp/0292725353 (1866 words)

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		The newsletter success has everything to do with the kindness of the great musicians from the Blasters and Dave Alvin's band.
		I asked the dealer "Who is this guy Dave Alvin, who plays on the CD?" He told he was with a great band called 'The Blasters.' I listened to the album, was floored by this guitar player and loved his songs.
		I was hooked and spent the rest of 1992 collecting all the Blasters and Dave Alvin CDs, LPs, singles, live tapes, magazine articles, photos, posters and everything.
	www.blastersnewsletter.com /newsletter/amer41.htm (340 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Blasters
		They say everything old becomes new again, and California's Blasters proved it in 1981 by jumping into the national spotlight with an utterly familiar brew of blues, rockabilly and rock'n'roll.
		Any lingering suspicions that the Blasters were just an oldies band at heart were surely dispelled by the fine Non Fiction.
		Alvin's replacement in the Blasters was a guitarist known as Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann), who tragically died a few months later, bringing Alvin briefly back into the fold.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=blasters (497 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Testament: the Complete Slash Recordings: Music: Blasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Blasters spent the first half of the 1980s purveying some of the finest roots-rock ever heard, so thoroughly assimilating their blues, rockabilly, country, and R&B influences that their own recordings could have been lost '50s classics.
		Led by the tireless bar room wail of singer Phil Alvin and the everyman narratives and pealing guitar of younger brother Dave, the band released four albums (the first for a tiny CA indie) and an EPbefore falling victim to the twin rock-band pitfalls of fraternal discord and poor sales.
		Those who've never experienced the Blasters magic before will be taken by both their way with a cover (they not only make Little Willie John's "I'm Shakin'" their own, they commandeerthe thing) and their gift for creating working-class novellas that run on Chuck Berry-inspired guitars and Gene Taylor's roadhouse piano style.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Testament-Complete-Slash-Recordings-Blasters/dp/B000060OL6 (353 words)

	The Best Darn Story Of The Whole 20th Century
		It winked at the border blasters, their English station IDs, their mailing addresses and studios up north, their tendency to run what they brung, ignoring anything written on their licenses.
		From this point on, border blasters had do do it all from their side.
		Wolfman moved on, as all radio gypsies must, to another border blaster in a marsh by the Tijuana River, with a dead shot up to Los Angeles, and yet another emisadora muy grande.
	www.ominous-valve.com /xerf.html (3165 words)

	Telarc International:
		It’s the eternal pirate AM signal, hailing from an uncharted no man’s land where a handful of hucksters, carnival barkers, troubadours and outlaws pitch their virtual tent and set the airwaves ablaze with a churning stew that is equal parts music and mayhem, sex and redemption, medicine and madness.
		The sounds you are hearing are the ghosts of border radio, better known as X radio to those whose memory is truly in tune.
		Along for the ride are Calexico, stylish purveyors of the Southwestern groove, and a host of high-profile artists who share a passion for—and in some cases, a first-hand history with—the border radio mythos.
	www.telarc.com /gscripts/title.asp?gsku=3623 (1732 words)

	NPR : Writer Bill Crawford on Border Blasters
		The CD captures the feeling of the music heard on the border radios -- a mix of rock 'n' roll, R&B, hillybilly and Mexican music.
		Fresh Air from WHYY, April 21, 2005 · Crawford is co-author of the book, Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves.
		It's about the "border blaster" stations that set up across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, and beamed broadcasts into the United States.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4609913 (203 words)

	Border Radio \| Music \| Border Radio \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		BY KURT B. My decision to name this new weekly "Roots & Americana" rant after the 1981 Blasters song "Border Radio" stems from my belief that L.A. punk was ground zero for alt-country.
		Bands like the Blasters, X, the Knitters, and Gun Club were a gateway for the Mohawk-sporting set into the blues, traditional country, and rockabilly.
		So for my inaugural installment of Border Radio, I caught up with an artist who went from drumming in a punk band to being one of alt-country's biggest stars: ex-Seattleite Neko Case.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=19165 (497 words)

	Converted from "V9_162.txt" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The State department put terrible pressure on Mexico to close down its border stations, and finally in 1941, it was successful in getting MX to dismantle XERA, the Sunshine Station Between the Nations, put on the air by John R. Brinkley who had run KFKB in Milford, Kansas.
		This was underscored in the KGEF case in Los Angeles, and finally in the landmark NBC case in 1945.
		After the war, Mexico had signed the NARBA treaty, and it got a number of clear channels, many of which went to stations along the border, including XERF, which was, in effect, the old XER/XERA, but it came back at 1570.
	www.airwaves.com /archive3/v9_162.html (2178 words)

	Roots66: Music: Reviews: The Blasters - LIVE: Going Home
		This DVD and CD are the record of the fourth (and final?) reunion of the original Blasters: Phil Alvin, Dave Alvin, Bill Bateman, John Bazz, and Gene Taylor.
		The DVD has excellent coverage of the concert with many close-ups of the individual performers, several historic performances, a couple of numbers by the current lineup, and interviews with the original members.
		The boys are joined by guest artists whose musical genres have influenced the Blasters Chicago bluesman Billy Boy Arnold, rockabilly's Sonny Burgess, and members of the West Coast doo-wop group The Calvanes and The Medallions.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/reviews/blasters.shtml (918 words)

	WOLFMAN JACK AND XERB
		They were located on the borders of Mexico and Texas or California, but were leased to Americans.
		These "bandit", "outlaw", or "border blasters" as they were called, transmitted programs by all sorts of wild characters, usually pitching something.
		Bob dreamed that one day he would be on the air at one of the border blasters broadcasting around the world.
	www.freeenterpriseland.com /BOOK/WOLFMAN.html (2372 words)

	Border Radio (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		OK, so if you like The Flesh Eaters (Chris D) and the Divine Horsemen, and X, and The Blasters, you will probably want to watch this for the "historical" value.
		I say X and The Blasters only because John Doe and Dave Alvin are in this.
		This is kind of a bizarre mixture of LA underground and suburban "mommy and daddy bought my car for me" kind of sensibilities, which may ring true but not in THIS film.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0090766 (324 words)

	Elbow Canyon :: Music
		Border Blasters "Two in One Day" tour, Saturday May 21
		The Border Blasters (our new band name) will be playing this Saturday, May 21, in both Fort Davis and Marathon, Texas.
		We'll be appearing at the Ice Cream Caboose in Fort Davis with full band from 1-3pm.
	www.elbowcanyon.com /blog/Music (988 words)

	Blasters Discography at CD Universe
		Reformed for one last time, legendary Los Angeles punks The Blasters work their way through a sizeable portion of their back catalogue in this live release.
		The band split in the mid-'80s, with both brothers releasing solo albums and Phil eventually regrouping a new version of the band that toured sporadically over the years.
		In 2002 the Alvins and the rest of the original members reunited for a couple of tours and a live album, before Dave returned to his solo career and Phil finally made a new record with the Blasters Mk II.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Blasters/a/Blasters.htm (306 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - The Blasters
		Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino) For the uninitiated, the Blasters were a band from the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.
		The Blasters were the consummate American roots-rock band.
		These guys meant every word they sang, every note they played, and their emotions came through so loud and clear that people were compelled to listen.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:85629 (381 words)

	Twangin'! Interview ~ Dave Alvin
		As co-founder of the Blasters -- one of the seminal roots-rock bands of the 1980s -- he penned such classics as "Marie, Marie" and "American Music." And some of his other songs -- "Long White Cadillac" and "Every Night About This Time" -- have been covered by Dwight Yoakam and Joe Ely, respectively.
		But while Alvin wrote the songs for the Blasters, his older brother Phil sang them -- a situation with which Dave eventually grew dissatisfied and led him to leave the band in 1986.
		When you look at the people from the 1980s scene who did have some success, Los Lobos and Robert Cray had some good runs, and Dwight Yoakam was the one who became a major star, because he had a place where his music could be heard.
	www.steamiron.com /twangin/int-alvin.html (1532 words)

	'Border Blasters' documentary to air on KUT, Public Radio International - Austin Business Journal:
		"Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters," a story about the outlaw radiomen who, from the 1930s to 1950s, set up megawatt border blaster radio stations across the Texas/Mexico border in order to evade U.S. regulations, will air on KUT at 11 a.m.
		He will produce a piece examining the lyrics of the 1970s ZZ Top song from, "Heard it on the X," which pays tribute to the music and mayhem of border radio.
		Major funding for "Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters" comes from the William and Salomé Scanlan Foundation of Austin and San Antonio.
	www.bizjournals.com /austin/stories/2006/02/27/daily30.html?from_rss=1 (621 words)

	Amazon.com: Border Radio: Video: Kurt Voss,Dean Lent,Allison Anders,Chris D.,Chris Shearer,Chuck Shepard,Luanna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Border Radio was the first film made by the nowfamous Independent filmmaker Anders.
		It was made and developedwhile Anders was still at the Sundance Institutein 1986,so you can prepare yourself for a cheaptreat,but a good one.
		Good soundtrack,too.Withcameos' by BLASTERS front man Dave Alvin, andX Vocals man John Doe.
	www.amazon.com /Border-Radio-Kurt-Voss/dp/6301216288 (412 words)

	Fishing… » Border Blasters
		Yesterday, while driving, I heard about Border Blasters on the radio.
		It is a fascinating (real) story about these radio stations which would transmit into the US from across the Mexican borders.
		Apart from their unusual content, these radio transmitters were so powerful that the broadcast could be heard as far as east Asia.
	lokeshshah.com /blog/2005/04/22/border-blasters (165 words)

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