R &B USIC Art'POP ROCK RAP DANCE COUNTRY L.ATIN CLASSICAL JAll PRO AUDIO Verbow Takes long Road To Epic/550 Music's `White Out' BY MOIRA McCORMICK says Narducy, `Alison and I have been ran into Gregg at Woodstock last year. man stresses the importance of repeat- CHICAGO-Verbow has been paving doing a lot of acoustic touring as well. Don said, `Hey, Verbow's looking for a ed listening with Verbow, noting that the way for its striking sophomore al- It's so cheap and easy for the two of us manager; you should manage them.' "when a record is this special, you have bum, "White Out," since October. The to get out there, and it's a great way to And he called us." to give it time." He says the follow-up set, which hits stores Tuesday (18) on introduce music to people." As for the recording locale, Narducy single will most likely be the lyrical Epic/550 Music, is the follow -up to the Narducy and Chesley are no says, `Brad told us his recording sys- "Sweet Felicity." iconoclastic Chicago-based band's ac- strangers to performing as an acoustic tem was completely portable. So I said, "We need to start slow with this claimed, Bob Mould- produced 1997 duo, since Verbow began that way as `Why don't we do something kind of record," says Mark Cunningham, man- debut, "Chronicles." Jason & Alison (Billboard, May 6, unconventional ?' " They worked in a ager of Aware Group Management. "If Since October, Verbow-led by sing- 1995). Narducy says the full band - winterized summer home, which Nar- we tried to hit the rock audience with er/songwriter /guitarist Jason Narducy with bassist Lennie Dietsch and new get together with Wood, who had ducy describes as "an interesting envi- all guns blazing, it wouldn't work. In- and cellist Alison Chesley-has been drummer Randy Morris ("Chronicles" agreed to produce but had previous ronment to make a record ... We had stead of pressing stations to play it, offering via verbowcom a free three - timekeeper David Suycott played commitments. "So, we did our record drums in this bedroom, bass cabinet in we've been cultivating them as fans song EP featuring "White Out" tracks drums on the album)--will tour again probably four months after we thought the other, cello in this one different first -for one, through the in- studio "New History" (the first single, which in the fall. we were going to do it," says Narducy. setups and different rooms for differ- duo performances." goes to radio Tuesday [18]) and' Ambu- "White Out," produced by Brad "But in the meantime, I kept writing ent recording processes." And, in the "Verbow's a really good band that lance," plus a live version of "Chroni- Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pump- and came up with, I think, some of the long tradition of bands that record in keeps developing its musical talent, and cles" track "Holiday." kins), proffers a dozen tracks of Nar- better songs on the record." houses, Verbow worked in the acousti- that works in its favor," says Patty Mar- "We've already gone through 8,500 ducy's intense, angular- melodic guitar The release of "White Out" was fur- cally reverberative bathroom as well. tin, music director of triple -A station of [the EPs]," says Narducy, taking five pop, which is given wings by Chesley's ther delayed by the fact that six months Joel Klaiman, VP of promotion for WXRT Chicago, which continues to with Chesley in late June in Chicago. supernal cello. The title refers to the after it was recorded, Verbow changed Epic /550, says "New History" will be play "Chronicles" cut "Holiday." "They Verbow has also been performing New Year's blizzard of 1999, which managers, signing with Gregg Latter - worked first to triple -A radio, then to have the potential for longevity and for since October, opening for the likes of deposited two feet of snow on the Indi- man, president of Chicago label Aware alternative. Klaiman says the label is getting bigger and bigger." Morrissey, Frank Black, Travis, Ben ana hamlet where Verbow was record- Records. "We'd needed a change," says following Latterman's strategy for Folds Five, Brad, Train, Joseph Arthur, ing in a rented house on Lake Michi- Narducy. `And fortunately, Don Muller, breaking Columbia act Train, which Assistance in preparing this article and Stir. In addition to full-band tours, gan. It had taken the act until then to our booking agent from Artistdirect, had a hit with "Meet Virginia." Klai- was provided by Lindsay Pours. Larkin's Vanguard Album Smithsonian Set Plumbs Jennifer Cutting Praised Mixes Stylistic Mélange `Broadside' folk Anthems for SunSign's 'forgiveness' BY LARRY FLICK BY JIM BESSMAN NEW YORK-Patty Larkin says she enjoyed the freedom of cut- BY CHRIS MORRIS NEW YORK-The uplifting single "Forgiveness" is generating ting much of " Regrooving The Dream," due July 25 on Vanguard, LOS ANGELES -One of the great treasure houses of Amer- airplay and acclaim for Jennifer Cutting, formerly of electric folk within the comfortable confines of her Cape Cod, Mass., record- ican folk music will be celebrated Aug. 22 when Smithsonian band the New St. George, and the way she continues to meld ing studio. Folkways Recordings issues its boxed British and American folk /rock influ- "It's a real blessing to have that set "The Best Of Broadside 1962- ences. option," she says. "It allows you to have 1988." The tune -which features a vocal a more organic, less stressful recording The five -CD, 89 -track collection performance by British folk/rock leg- experience." brings together what its subtitle end Maddy Prior that is being hailed as "Regrooving The Dream" is the ven- refers to as "anthems of the Ameri- one of her finest in years-will be part erable singer/songwriter's first collec- a< can underground" that made their of a CD Cutting is assembling. The tion of new material for Vanguard. She debuts in the pages of Broadside track was released last month as a CD joined the label in 1999, issuing the live magazine. The influential journal was single on Cutting's Takoma Park, Md: s concert chronicle "a gogo." published by Agnes "Sis" Cunning - based SunSign label, available via her LARKIN Drawing on the varied traditions of PAXTON, (CIRCA 1960s) ham and Gordon Friesen, veterans CUTTING Web site (Kinesiscd.com /jennifercut- the Celtic, blues, R&B, Middle Eastern, of the radical political and folk music ting) and local retailer House of Musical samba, country, and folk genres, the album is a musical melting movements of the '4Os, in their flat in New York's Frederick Traditions; it's also accessible as an MP3 download from pot. Larkin displays palpable soul on both the rhythmic, funk -fla- Douglass Housing Project. 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