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| Blues Guitarist Joe Rossi Fights Oil Barons Award-winning Blues legend Smokin Joe Rossi is teaming up with an all-star card of blues and rock legends to raise $1, 000, 000 to find alternative energy sources through concerts and record sales. "I can't sit back and let big oil companies rape our natural resources and exploit Americans with high gas prices. We are donating profits from our Southbound Express tour to find natural sources of energy to run our cars and power our homes." The blues legend has invested in solar power for California homes, and running cars on new fuel sources such as water, natural gas, and others. Actor Woody Harrelson, former President Bill Clinton, and other heavyweight celebrities are publicly advocating alternative fuel sources. "We have oil men in the White House who are resistant, but eventually we will win, " Rossi said. "We need a decentralized system to distribute the new fuel. Right now, there are gas stations all over that keep us bound to the old paradigm." The "Bluesmen for a Better World" organization Rossi heads has been protested by Republican groups such as the Patriot Coalition. "Instead of wasting billions in Iraq to fight for oil and dependence on the old way of doing things, we need to be free of the oil companies, " Rossi said. "God gave us free resources that should be accessible to all." Smokin Joe Rossi was recently voted best new blues artist by the International Music Awards. His brother, filmmaker Richard Rossi is filming the benefit concerts for a documentary to assit in the fundraising project. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |