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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 10/6/2010 Fistful of Mercy “Father’s Son” #2 Most Added AGAIN!! New: WRNR, KTHX, KEXP, KDBB, WAPS, KSUT, WJCU... BDS New & Active! Indicator 16*! FMQB Public Debut 30* ON: WXPK, Sirius Spectrum, WQKL, WCOO, KPND, WFUV, WXPK, WEHM, WFPK, WFIV, WTMD, WYEP, WMVY, KLRR, WDST, WUIN... Full album As I Call You Down in stores NOW Fistful of Mercy is Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur and Dhani Harrison (George’s son) November tour Old 97’s “Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)” Most Added AGAIN! New: KPND, KHUM, KCLC, KSUT, KSMT, WDST, WRSI, WERS, WEVL... FMQB Tracks Debut 43! Public 31* ON: KGSR, WCLZ, WEHM, WFUV, KUT, KCMP, WXPN, WYEP, WFPK, WTMD, KRSH, KEXP, KNBA, WEXT, WFIV... In stores Tuesday! Texas in-stores in October, full tour in December This is Old 97’s eighth studio album, produced by Salim Nourallah Tired Pony “Dead American Writers” BDS Monitored 20*!! Indicator 14*! FMQB Public 21*! New: KINK, KTHX, WDST, KROK, KUT, WCBE, WBSD In stores now! ON: KBCO, WXRT, KGSR, WXRV, WXPK, WRLT, WRNR, WNCS, WCLZ, WMMM, Sirius Spectrum, WRNX, KEZE, KRVB, KPND, WCOO, WEHM, WFIV... “The best work Lightbody has done.” - Q Magazine Just performed on Letterman and did their only two US shows in Los Angeles and NYC Los Lonely Boys “Oye Mamacita” New: KZMV, WUIN, KDEC ON: KPIG, KOZT, KBAC, WEXT, WFIV, KVSF, WMWV, KMTN, WNKU, KFMG, KFAN, KLCC, KVNF, WNTI, KSLU... Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live!, recorded during their Acoustic Brotherhood tour, in stores now! Album features appearances by Alejandro Escovedo & Carrie Rodriguez On tour now Single edit available on PlayMPE Jason Spooner “Half A Mind” The second single from Sea Monster New: KPND, WMVY, KRVO, KMTN, WBJB, WKZE, KTAO... Early: KBAC, WEXT, KSKI Opening for Ryan Montbleau Band now “His soulful vocals tackle lyrics about death, danger, and the desire to escape, but despite the meatiness of the themes, the songs refuse to wallow in melodrama.” - Performer Magazine One eskimO “Amazing” BDS Monitored New & Active! Indicator 19*! New: WXPK, WQKL ON: WXRV, CIDR, KRVB. WRLT, KEZE, WCOO, KDAL, WCNR, WXPN, WNWV, WYMS, KBAC, WVOD, WTMD, KLRR, KRVO, KOHO, KROK, WEXT, WFIV, KSMT, WUIN, KFMU, KSPN, KZMV, KDBB... New US dates start next week “Kandi” blew up for your audience - this is a band that deserves a second shot at the prize David Gray “A Moment Changes Everything” Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Paris (Ooh La La)” BDS Monitored 8*! Indicator #6! ON: WXRT, KTCZ, KFOG, KGSR, KBCO, BDS Monitored Debut 27*! Indicator #15! New: WRNX, KRSH ON: Dave-FM, WRNR, KINK, WXRV, KMTT, Dave-FM, Sirius, WRNR, WTTS, WMMM, WXPK, WNCS... WNCS, KTHX, WCLZ, WRLT, KEZE, WZEW, KRVB, WCOO, WCNR, WDST, KMMS... Great sales! TV appearances on Leno and CBS morning show Tour dates with The Avett Bros, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and more Sarah Jaffe “Clementine” Santana “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” New: WYEP, WFIV, WMWV, KOHO, KCSN ON: WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, WFPK, WCBE, KNBA, Featuring India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma, in stores now! New: KPIG ON: WZEW, WCOO, WYCE, KFMU, KSPN, DMX, KMTN, WNCW, WVMP... Full cd on your desk, single on MPE KRSH, WNWV, KUT, WFIV, KSUT, KFMU, KSPN, KLRR, KOZT, WOCM, KOHO, KDBB... “I saw Sarah play at a house party in Denton... I was blown away.” - Norah Jones From Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time HUGE sales! 100K in 2 weeks Ryan Montbleau Band “Songbird” Jarrod Gorbel “Ten Years Older” Heavy On The Vine on your desk now, in stores now New: KLCC, WSYC The frontman of The Honorary Title New: WUIN ON: WFIV, WYCE, KOHO, DMX, WCBE... ON: WMVY, KMTN, KSPN, KFMU, KOHO, WNCW, WERS, KHUM, KZMV, WCBE, WUTC, KDTR... Full cd Devil’s Made A New Friend on your desk, single on PlayMPE On tour now Produced by Martin Sexton Tour dates through November with Jason Spooner opening Great press in Nylon See the Rolling Stone and Relix reviews on page 2 Going for Good Old War Hill Country Revue adds 10/18 “That’s Some Dream” “Raise Your Right Hand” Rolling Stone and Relix rave about Jarrod Gorbel “Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jarrod Gorbel got his start moaning about heartache with dour indie-rock band the Honorary Title. Gorbel has shed his old group for the folky Devil’s Made a New Friend, but his mood remains as dark as ever. “The less extraordinary life gets/The more my love starts losing effect,” he sighs in the solemn opener, “Extraordinary.” In the hands of lesser musicians, the consistent cynicism could become a drag, but Gorbel leavens his world-weary outlook with sparkling arrangements: a string section in “I’ll Do Bet- ter,” bleary church organ in “Devilish Ways.” And while his voice — a somber, gravelly baritone — is perfectly suited to his sentiment, it’s just as effective when Gorbel lightens up. “Wherever you will be/That’s where I call home,” he sings on the rocketing “Each Breath,” proving even the grouchiest bard is a softy underneath.” - Rolling Stone “When the heat is on, it’s always best to fall back on your roots. That’s where singer/songwriter Jarrod Gorbel found himself after two years on the road fronting Brooklyn-based rockers The Honorary Title, who was flying high on its major label debut in 2007, but slowly and painfully buckled under the weight of expectations, ego clashes and overall malaise. Fortunately, Gorbel has molded the pieces into his first solo effort, dialing back the power chords in favor of the brooding acoustic tones that drove early Honorary Title gems like “Everything I Once Had.” But even in his quietest moments, Gorbel doesn’t steer Devil’s Made a New Friend into maudlin bouts of navel-gazing. A sure- footed backing band (including Rilo Kiley’s Blake Sennett and Jason Boesel, current Black Crowes keyboardist Adam MacDougall and Azure Ray’s Orenda Fink) helps him smite those demons with alt-folk whimsy and a damn-near surf-inflected twang—all of it honed to dreamy perfec- tion in “Need for Control,” “Extraordinary” and the lovelorn stomper “Each Breath.”” - Relix David Gray sits down for a chat with The Associated Press Last month, while on the road with Ray LaMontagne, David Gray sat down for an interview with The Associated Press. The Associated Press: How would you describe this album [Foundling]? Gray: It’s a listening record. If you’re really into lyrics and songwriting, and dwelling on the essence of the song, then this is going to be a record that’s powerful for you, as a listener. ... There’s no big song. There’s nothing that’s trying to attract your attention. It’s not dressed up for the shop window. It’s very much a record I made with my deepest instincts. AP: Why did you release this album less than a year after Draw the Line? Gray: At a certain point I looked at all this sort of sprawling massive material and decided there was two separate projects. ... Suddenly it looks like I’m just knocking records out as if it’s easy, but they were both recorded and conceived within the same time frame. AP: You are known for being introspective, but this album turns the lens outward. Why is that? Gray: The angles that I was pursuing with my writing changed on Draw the Line in particular. It just released me from whatever I’d been thinking and feeling before. The sound of the new band had a different, slightly, almost tougher presence to it. It allowed me, enabled me, to write a different kind of song, something I’ve been bursting to write - so more panoramic, politicized, an uncomfortable word, but more political kind of rant kind of songs. Suddenly the camera was just pointing everywhere and to everything. AP: What is it in politics that excites or annoys you? Gray: Politics is occasionally exciting when something unpredictable happens. It’s the distorting lens of the media that frustrates me, how people operate through it to us as the populace and how we have skewed ideas about the world by looking at it, and how it selects; how stories become bigger from strange reasons and oth- ers don’t get anywhere. I think for the weight of information that is dispersed on a daily basis, it’s amazing how disconnected people are from real events. AP: You say you don’t read critics. Has there ever been a time when you did and you wish you hadn’t? Gray: I try not to even go there. It’s weird. You need a thick skin and yet, being what you are requires a thin skin, in order to write and react to things. ... The thing that most disappoints me is not necessarily if someone doesn’t really like my stuff. If they actually put together a firm argument as to why, I’d be impressed. AP: What’s the secret to keeping a marriage intact after 17 years, especially in show business? Gray: God, I haven’t got any secrets, for sure. ... I’ve seen so many friends splitting up over the years, people you think - that seem to be so happy together ... you think they’ll be together forever, whereas my wife and I are always at each other’s throats. Maybe that’s the secret. Coming up for adds 10/25: Truth & Salvage Co, Court Yard Hounds, Mike Farris & The Cumberland Saints Listen to everything and find out more at www.rightarmresource.com as well as facebook.com/rightarmresource or twitter.com/rightarmjesse RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 10/6/10.