By RussWilcox [
From Sea to Shining Sea]
Music icon to spin records, interview guests and offer commentary on new XM satellite radio show.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Rock and folk music legend Bob Dylan has signed on with XM Satellite Radio as host of a weekly program.
Dylan will play records, interview guests, take e-mails and offer commentary on music and other topics, the satellite radio company said in a statement Tuesday.
"Bob Dylan epitomizes the American music experience and his unflagging integrity and vision defines everything we hope for XM to be," Lee Abrams, XM's chief creative officer, said in a statement.
XM (Research) said this is the first time Dylan has ever hosted a radio program.
The hour-long show on XM will begin in March 2006 on the service's rock channel.
The musician is the subject of a new documentary, "No Direction Home," directed by Martin Scorsese, that aired on PBS stations around the country in recent months.
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Russell Wilcox is a retired college professor who spends several months in Florida and several months in Rhode Island each year, and whose interests include boating and sailing, political activism, ballroom dancing and bridge. He has an MBA from Harvard, a Computer Systems CAGS from Bryant and a BS from Northeastern. He has worked in industry for EG&G and Texas Instruments, operated his own business with more than 200 employees, and served as Director of the Computer Information Systems Program for Stonehill College. He is a published author of two technical studies, and is the proud father of four children and the proud grandfather of six grandchildren. A holder of two patents in microchip connections and a true product of the melting pot, his father is the son of a Yankee farmer, and his mother the second generation daughter of Italian immigrants who retained their culture, but strove mightily to become Americans, sending four sons to fight against Hitler and Mussolini.
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