If you're interested in picking up some selections from a Grammy-winning recording artist after last night's awards ceremony, you're in luck. Not only is there a substantial library of these recordings available online, but there's new material being released just about every week. Best of all, you can get them all completely free of charge — and no, that doesn't mean you have to fire up some Napster clone or troll MySpace.com profiles looking for free MP3 files.
The recording artist I'm talking about is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), winner of this year's Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. Obama won recognition for his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," beating out nominees Garrison Keillor, Al Franken, Sean Penn and George Carlin.
Thanks to his commitment to producing regular podcasts, anyone can tune in to hear Sen. Obama's thoughts on the issues of the day by visiting http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/ or subscribing to the podcasts using iTunes. Of course, the Grammy-winning recording is definitely worth picking up, but thanks to these podcasts you can always hear the latest and greatest direct from Capitol Hill. I'd like to see Kelly Clarkson or Bono top that.
Congratulations to Sen. Obama on the Grammy, and to his forward-thinking internet and communications teams who keep the podcasts coming.
