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A Member With Distinction

Rekha posted on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 | Blog

On March 15, 2010, PRX was led over the threshold of 100,000 registered users by a certain Jason Wilber of Bloomington, Indiana. Yes, that string of digits at the end of your account URL actually means something: http://www.prx.org/users/100000.

Jason (who was kind enough to let us call him out on this blog) has such a great profile that you’d be forgiven for thinking we had him poised at his computer, waiting for member 99,999 before hitting “Sign Up”. No, we didn’t, but here’s why you might think so. From his PRX profile:

Journeyman guitarist, singer, songwriter, and host of the weekly radio series In Search of a Song. Jason Wilber has traveled the world as lead guitar player for artists like John Prine, Greg Brown, Iris DeMent, Todd Snider, and Hal Ketchum. In the insightful and sometimes humorous songs featured on his seven solo CDs Jason manages to meld his rock, folk, jazz, and country influences into a unique sound that’s been described as “Van Morrison meets Wilco”.

Last Wednesday, Jason was on Late Show with David Letterman.

All in a day’s work for PRX’s 100,000th member. And that weekly radio series Jason mentions, In Search of a Song? It’s coming to PRX in July. An hour of music and in-depth interviews with singer-songwriters and musicians.

As for why we waited so long to tell you about Jason, well, frankly the milestone just passed us by. So it’s only fair to also congratulate member 105,648, who joined ten minutes ago. Number 200,000, here we come.

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