Up in Washington DC, it’s already being talked about as a Beltway event with real Southern swagger.
Not to mention one of the toughest invites in town.
It’s the “White House Correspondents’ Jam II,” taking place on April 29 at The Hamilton Live. That’s the night before the actual White House Correspondents Dinner, aka the “Nerd Prom,” when pasty faced reporters and editors throw on their fanciest duds and sit at tables with big name politicians and real celebrities from the worlds of Hollywood, pro sports and unassigned Kardashian-eque categories.
Following in the footsteps of last year’s first Jam, this year’s version will again feature journalists from places like The New Yorker and CNBC rockin’ out with their own bands.
Seriously, who cares?
The much bigger news concerns another band that will be playing together for that one night only: Those (and we’re quoting organizers here), “below the radar rock stars, ‘Phil and the Busters.’”
Or as they’re better known, Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, R.E.M founding member Mike Mills, Widespread Panic founder/lead singer John “JB” Bell and and Paul Riddle, the drummer for the Marshall Tucker Band.
All major rockers in their own right. And all proud Georgia natives or residents (execpt for Riddle, though the MTB recorded in Macon).
The Jam is being thrown by Mother Nature Network, the online environmental news and information site co-founded by Leavell. He's just recently back from Havana, where the Stones played a historic free concert in March.
Guess if they could pull that off, anything seemed possible.
Including getting Phil and the Busters together for a night.
