Anti-Flag - Free Nation

If several radio stations - following the example of KWEM, broadcasting in West Memphis on the opposite bank of the Mississippi - followed in the footsteps of WDIA, another source of rhythm and blues for Elvis was Dewey Phillips' Red Hot and Blue broadcast on WHBQ, where hits hit each other, music country style and new black rhythms. Phillips, an eccentric non-conformist presenter who was addicted to the bottle, very early realized how attractive Negro music was for new generations of the “white poor”, torn between their village roots and new demands, which were perfectly satisfied by the energy of the new urban blues. Between Muddy Waters' hypnotic spells and Charles Brown’s ballad, Patti Page’s latest hit and Hank Williams’s strong blues imprint of country music, Dewey inserted an ad for the Lansky Brothers Store,praising its virtues in a very figurative language with a mass of expressions borrowed from the Negro slang from Bill Street.