The Del McCoury Band will release “Moneyland,” a multi-artist CD which features classic material along side the new on July 8th.

Nashville, Tenn. — Del McCoury’s McCoury Music label is pushing its new Moneyland CD, due out July 8. But McCoury Music is also pushing the theme behind the project, which includes songs by several artists.

The title song “Moneyland” covers a lot of issues, “but the one that underlies all of these issues is corporate greed,” the label said in one of several email blitzes promoting the CD message more than the CD.

One e-mail cites the group United for a Fair Economy, which claims that CEOs of large U.S. companies “last year made as much money from just one day on the job as average workers made over the entire year. These top executives averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, over 364 times the pay of the average American worker…”

The e-mail quotes the organization, United for a Fair Economy: “UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.”

Another cites the Web site, http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org: “Corporations boost profits at the expense of people’s health and environment by using campaign contributions, aggressive lobbying, deceptive public relations and influence over global trade talks to write the rules that govern our economy and society to their advantage. As corporations grow richer and more powerful than many countries, it becomes even more important to challenge the undue influence they use to weaken government policies that should protect people”

The title song “Moneyland” covers a lot of issues, “but the one that underlies all of these issues is corporate greed.”

McCoury Music also rails against the inequity of government aid to farmers with this quote from the Christian Science Monitor: “Nearly 70 percent of farm subsidies go to the top 10 percent of the country’s biggest growers - while America loses one farm every half an hour.”

And another quote from John Mellencamp on behalf of the Farm Aid organization: ” We all see what’s happening with agriculture, what’s happening to our small towns. They are going out of business. That’s a direct result of the farm problem. We’re still doing Farm Aid because it is contributing. It’s doing a job.”

Another message tackles health care in RFD America:

“In poor rural areas, particularly in the South, regular medical care is seldom more than a distant dream,” the music label quotes from the New York Times.

And, another quote from the Amarillo Globe News: “In all, the federal government estimates that at least 35 million Americans live in medically underserved -areas, mainly in rural communities or small towns.”

McCoury Music also carries these statistics from www.ruralhealthweb.org:

Only about ten percent of physicians practice in rural America despite the fact that nearly one-fourth of the population lives in these areas.

Rural residents are less likely to have employer-provided health care coverage or prescription drug coverage, and the rural poor are less likely to be covered by Medicaid benefits than their urban counterparts.

Although only one-third of all motor vehicle accidents occur in rural areas, two-thirds of the deaths attributed to these accidents occur on rural roads.

So, are Del and the boys getting a little political in these days of heated presidential politics? Stay tuned, we’re watching to see what happens.