RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 3/21/2007 Ryan Shaw “Nobody” The highlight of last year’s Boulder Rate-A-Record is finally going for adds! Single on your desk now! Early adds: WXPN, WTMD, WUIN, KBAC, KSPN, KFMU, KMTN, KROK, KTBG, KSMT, KZMV... Just finished opening for Robert Randolph... He’s the opener for the full Joss Stone tour! See dates on Page 2 The Greyboy Allstars feat. The Living Sisters “How Glad I Am” R&R and FMQB Most Added! First week: WFUV, WXPN, KTBG, KSPN, KFMU, KMTN, WKZE, KMTN, KHUM... Early adds: KEXP, WUTC, KDNK, KRCC, WYCE On tour now! What Happened To Television in stores 4/17 The Greyboy Allstars: Karl Denson, Elgin Park, Robert Walter, Chris Stillwell & Zak Najor The Living Sisters: Eleni Mendell, Inara George & Becky Stark The Nightwatchman () “The Road I Must Travel” Already on: WXPN, KUT, KCUV, WBJB, KNBA, Music Choice... One Man Revolution in stores 4/24 Tom Morello has performed as The Nightwatchman since 2003, presiding over a Hotel Cafe residency in LA since November One of the most talked about performers at SXSW! See him at Non-Comm! Willy Mason “Save Myself” Joss Stone “Tell Me ‘Bout It” Fantastic shows in SXSW! Full cd in stores now R&R Monitored 21*! Indicator 4*! FMQB Public 16*! New: KXCI, WBSD, Maine Public Radio ON: CIDR, KTHX, Gung Ho on VH-1! - in stores NOW! New: KRVB, WDST, WTYD... KRSH, WXPN, WMVY, KSUT, WCBE, WMWV, WRSI, WUMB... ON: WBOS, WXRV, Dave-FM, WNCS, KPRI, WZEW, WCLZ, WQKL, KTHX... The Alternate Routes “Time Is A Runaway” Ben Kweller “Penny On The Train Track” R&R Monitored #2 New & Active! Indicator 20*! New: KWRP In Rolling Stone’s “Best Songs of 2006” New: WQKL, KPTL... Great rocking performances at SXSW ON: WRNR, WTMD, WFPK, KTBG, KPND, WMWV, KNBA, KMTN, WBJB... ON: KBCO, WBOS, KPRI, WRLT, WCOO, WNCS, WXRV, WTTS, WXPK... Video on the Right Arm Resource blog! On tour now with Gomez Winterpills “Broken Arm” Ruthie Foster “Heal Yourself” The Light Divides in stores now! FMQB Public 22*! FMQB Tracks #35! FMQB Public #8! In stores now Great shows at SXSW! ON: WFUV, KCRW, WRNR, WTMD, KUT, Killer set at SXSW! ON: KGSR, KUT, KPIG, KRSH, WYEP, KTBG, WYEP, WFPK, WNCW, KSUT, WRSI, KNBA, WCBE, KPND... KCUV, KLRR, WMVY, KSPN, KFMU, WNCW, KNBA, WCBE... Patty Griffin “Heavenly Day” Matt Wertz “Carolina” R&R Monitored #26! Indicator 17*! FMQB Public #1!!! Everything In Between in stores now! New: WCNR, Music Choice On tour now! Stellar sales!! New this week: WQKL ON: WRLT, WNRN, KBAC, KYSL, WAPS, KTAO, KDBB, KROK... ON: WXRT, KMTT, KGSR, WTTS, WRLT, KTHX, KRVB, WRNR... Co-headlining tour now with Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers Coming up... 4/2: Angelique Kidjo feat. Peter Gabriel “Salala” (Most Added two weeks early! Already on KBCO, WXRT, KGSR, WNCS, WXPK, Sirius, KBAC, WNRN, WBJB, KOZT, KSUT, WCNR, WTMD, KRSH, XM Cafe...), The Mother Hips “Time We Had” (full cd on your desk now) You just try not to dance during these shows... we dare you! 4/27 Mashantucket, CT 5/24 Seattle, WA (Foxwoods Casino) 5/27 Denver, CO 4/30 Philadelphia, PA 5/30 Chicago, IL 5/3 Atlanta, GA 6/2 Toronto, ONT 5/6 New Orleans, LA 6/5 Montreal, QUE (Jazz & Heritage Festival) 6/8 New York, NY 5/9 Dallas, TX (Central Park Summer Stage) 5/12 Alpine, CA 6/11 Boston, MA 5/15 San Francisco, CA 6/13 Vienna, VA 5/18 Portland, OR 6/16 Ft. Lauderdale, CA Joss Stone and Ryan Shaw on tour together! 5/21 Vancouver, BC ... and more dates will fill in! Plus, don’t miss Joss on TV! She’ll be on the CBS Early Show this Saturday (3/24) and on Craig Ferguson next Monday (3/26) Let’s review: Willy Mason is a star Getting to know Morello “Willy Mason is a modern day whose “My aspiration is to be the black Woody Guthrie,” spouts songs reflect our society better than any I have heard in Tom Morello, rock’s guitar innovator. “But I’ll settle for the many a year. You just have to pick up a copy of “If The black Robin Hood of acoustic music.” Ocean Gets Rough” and hear the truth. Mason sees the Waging war within a breath, the six-string poet of the world through the eyes of humanity. His message is one recently disbanded unplugs his One Man that all need to take heed of.” Revolution under Nightwatchman’s shadowy guise. His - Scott Register, CIMS / Reg’s Coffee House gravel voice recalling Johnny Cash’s most haunting moments, Morello taps protest music’s history as a call to “Wise-beyond-his-years troubadour rocks with sincerity: arms against an “unrepresentative government, illicit war, Mason is a 22-year-old rustic singer/songwriter who’s and economic injustice.” added his Martha’s Vineyard musical gang for a second “It only recently occurred to me that music doesn’t have album heavier on texture (hello, cello!) and sweeter on to be fed through Marshall stacks to be heavy,” testifies the renegade of funk, harmonies (courtesy of his mom, Jemimah James). His reuniting with at Coachella next month. “We have to slumbery Jonathan Richman-meets-Beck vocals make remind ourselves that it wasn’t through the good graces of presidents or the wisdom every song a potential slacker of the Supreme Court that women got the right to vote or that lunch counters were lullaby, as exemplified by desegregated. Those immense challenges were overcome because average people “I Can’t Sleep”. And the stories like you and me stood up for their rights where they worked and went to school underneath the tunes question the world with that “What the and in the community. That’s how change happens.” fuck am I doing?” insecurity Morello, a Harvard graduate and recipient of the 2006 Eleanor Roosevelt Human that comes from choosing the Rights Award, formed nonprofit activist organization with System of a path less traveled. *** [3 stars]” Down’s five years ago, but that’s only half the battle. - Spin Magazine “An organization can educate, but music can inspire,” he asserts. “Perhaps we’ve been complacent too long. Whether it’s the jarring chords of Rage’s ‘Bulls on “Clearly a special talent with Parade’ or the lyrical tales of retribution of the an equal skill for conveying Nightwatchman, I think it’s time people are rocked sorrow, joy and hope.” and haunted. It’s not about nostalgia; it’s about - NME (March 03, 2007) being a battering ram for social justice.” Have you been to rightarmresource.com lately? * Click on the iPod to launch a Flash player which streams everything I’m working (bookmark it for the music meeting!) * Link to archived newsletters and the A/V blog featuring content including music videos, epk’s, performance audio & more For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 3/21/07