THE FIRST THING I noticed coming through the doors of the 9:30 Club was a button on the shoulder bag of the woman in front of me. “Regime Change 2004,” it said. Next was the long banner hanging behind blues singer Lester Chambers on stage. “Tell Us the Truth,” the banner read in tall capital letters.
But, no, no one was demanding information. The primary task of the Tell Us the Truth Tour is to sound the alarm for media diversity. This I learned from the website, not the show. Except for one or two comments, media diversity was hardly mentioned in over three hours of music and stump-speaking, featuring British folk-singer Billy Bragg, American bad boy Steve Earle, and REM’s Mike Mills, among others.
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