RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 5/14/2008 Big Blue Ball feat. Peter Gabriel “Burn You Up, Burn You Down” The first single with The Holmes Bros. from the upcoming Big Blue Ball cd, in US stores June 24 Single available on PlayMPE now, full cd shipping on Friday Early adds: WXPN, WFUV, KOZT, WEXT, WBJB, XM Cafe Los Lonely Boys “Staying With Me” Mike Farris “I’m Gonna Get There” #1 Most Added everywhere! Full cd Forgiven in stores July 1 First week: KRSH, KBAC, KZMV, WBSD, WRRW, KSLU First week: KBCO, WXRV, KINK, WMMM, KCUV, WNCS, WCLZ, KTHX... The second single from Salvation In Lights On tour now! Check out their killer live show this summer - dates on Page 2 “Simply blown away!” - Bryan Beck/KGSR on Mike’s SXSW show Patti Rothberg “Alternate Universe” The Submarines “You, Me & The Bourgeoisie” New: KNBA, WNRN, WYCE ON: KPND, WBJB, KROK, WCBE, New: WFHB, WERU, KKCR, KUNC ON: KCMP, KCRW, KCLC, KFAN, KSLU, WRRW, KVNF Double Standards in stores now! WERS, XM Cafe, WCBE, KOHO, KXCI... Full cd in stores now! Upcoming shows in NY/NJ, more dates coming soon Tour: 5/22 Chicago, 5/23 Detroit, 5/27 Northampton, 5/28 Boston... David Ford “My Sweet Indecision (Go To Hell)” deSoL “On My Way” New: WFIT, KSMF ON: WTMD, WJCU, KCLC, WEXT, WNRN, WCBE New this week: WXPK, WAPS ON: KPRI, KCUV, KTHX, WNCS, Clear Channel NEW! Artist On tour with Augustana! WCLZ, KBAC, WMWV, KLRR, WJCU... “deSoL is part of the One-take video has received almost 370,000 views on YouTube march of Latin music into the mainstream.” - New York Times Alejandro Escovedo “Always A Friend” Jakob Dylan “Something Good This Way Comes” R&R Monitored New & Active! Indicator 19*! FMQB Public 20* R&R Monitored 12*! Indicator 3*! Playing at NON-COMM New: WCOO, WEHM, KROK... ON: KGSR, KCUV, WMMM, WNCS, New: KFOG, WMMM, WRNR ON: KMTT, KBCO, KTCZ, Dave-FM, Sirius, KTHX, WFUV, KUT, WFPK, WCNR... See upcoming TV on page 2 KINK, WXRV, KPRI, CIDR, KGSR, WRLT, WZEW, KTHX, KXLY... Danielia Cotton “Bang My Drum” Ingrid Michaelson “Breakable” The second single from Rare Child, in stores Tuesday The follow-up to “The Way I Am” New: KCLC ON: KCUV, KRSH, Already added at WFPK, spinning at WXRT, KFOG and KBCO WCNR, WDST, WXPN, WTYD, WMVY, WJCU, KMTN, WNRN... Full cd on your desk now, cd-single shipping soon Lots of dates coming, huge TV and online exposure right now Dave Barnes “Until You” Landon Pigg “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop” ON: KTCZ, WRLT, KXLY, KPTL, WCOO, KRVB, KRSH, WCNR, WFIV, R&R Monitored 18*! Spins up based on listener reaction! KBAC, KLRR... Incredible sales story! MTVu Freshmen winner! Top 10 at KTCZ, KPTL, WMMM, KINK, WRLT, KMTT Upcoming dates with OneRepublic, Jonny Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Los Lonely Boys Also on: KGSR, WXRV, KWMT, KXLY, WCLZ, KPTL, KRSH... Paddy Casey “Fear” Will Hoge “Washed By The Water” On tour with KT Tunstall all month - great response! ON: WRLT, The second single from Draw The Curtains, on your desk now with an Sirius, WXPK, WEHM, WTYD, WUIN, WTMD, WFPK, WYEP... additional live EP from his WFPK performance ON: KRSH, WFPK, FMQB Tracks 39*! eTown airs soon, Mountain Stage this week WTYD, KOZT, KPND, WFIV, WBJB, WUIN, WOCM, KROK, KDBB... Dan Wilson “Free Life” Jim Bianco “Sing” The second single from his cd Free Life, exec produced by Rick Rubin Great press from Hotel Cafe tour, more US dates coming soon ON: Sirius, KTBG, WJCU, KCLC, KFMU, WFPK, WYEP, WBJB, KTAO... Already on: KBAC, WUIN, WNRN, KOHO, KKCR, WYSO, KSLU, More tour dates soon! See the EPK and performance clips on my blog WFIT, KAXE, KRVM, WUMB, KDNK, WSYC, WERU, KUNC... Don’t let them be Lonely Alejandro Escovedo: TV Star on the road this summer June 20: Conan O’Brien Los Lonely Boys tour: 8/2 Council Bluffs, IA 5/25 New Braunfels, TX 8/7 Grand Rapids, MI June 24: The Today Show 6/12 Santa Barbara, CA 8/8 Highland Park, IL August 7: David Letterman 6/13 Murphys, CA 8/10 Detroit, MI 6/17 Lake Tahoe, NV 8/12 Vienna, VA 6/21 Kansas City, MO 8/14 New York, NY Ingrid Michaelson wants you 6/22 Aspen, CO 8/29 Milwaukee, WI 7/12 Choctaw, MS 8/31 Cleveland, OH to connect with your friends 7/18 Portland, OR Ingrid Michaelson has been all over the 7/20 Eugene, OR news this week thanks to Google and 7/22 Saratoga, CA iLike using her website 7/25 Los Angeles, CA (ingridmichaelson.com) to launch 7/26 Alpine, CA Google’s new social networking 7/29 Albuquerque, NM product Friend Connect. It allows users 7/31 CO Springs, CO to turn their website into a social networking site without 8/1 Denver, CO having to use a separate site like MySpace or Facebook. Not familiar with the Big Blue Ball project? Read on, my friends... “One week in the middle of summer this craziness happened at the Real World Studios. We had this week of invited guests, people from all around the world, a 24 hour café. It was a giant play pen, a bring your own studio party. There’d be a studio set up on the lawn, in the garage, in someone’s bedroom as well at the rooms we had available. We were sort of curators of this living mass. We had poets and songwriters there, people would come in and scribble things down, they’d hook up in the café. It was like a dating agency, then they’d disappear into the darkness and make noises – and we’d be there to record it.” – PETER GABRIEL Almost eighteen years in the making, BIG BLUE BALL grew from three extraordinary Recording Weeks at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1995. It was a practical response to a problem that became a great creative idea. The Recording Weeks were arranged to clear a space between block bookings from the likes of New Order so that Real World artists with the budget for just a day or two recording could come together en masse to deliver their own albums and work on some side projects, too. The atmosphere and spirit of it was very important. The location of the studios, the café space that was open day and night. Among the united nations of performers who found their way to Real World during those weeks were Billy Cobham, Papa Wemba, Hossam Ramzy and The Egyptian String Ensemble, Sinead O Connor, Natacha Atlas, flamenco guitarist Juan Canizares, American singer Joseph Arthur, Afro Celts James McNally and Iarla O Lionaird, Japanese percussionist Joji Hirota, Jah Wobble, gospel group The Holmes Brothers, Justin Adams, Francis Bebey, Tim Finn, Marta Sebestyen, guitarist Vernon Reid, Chinese flute player Guo Yue. And those are just some of the ones who made the final cut. Among those who have been lost on the way are Nigel Kennedy, Remy Ongala, Dan Lanois and Van Morrison. The project’s originators and curators were Real World founder Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger of World Party and The Waterboys. As Peter recalls, “The Big Blue Ball was a working name for a project that would pull in elements from all around the world. The title came from one of the astronauts when they first left the planet’s surface and looked back and saw the earth as a big blue ball and all other divisions seemed ridiculous and arbitrary, because there’s the whole thing – and that idea seemed useful to have for this project.” After the last Recording Week in 1995, the musicians and producers dispersed, the tapes stayed up on the shelves, and the Big Blue Ball all but sank from view until producer Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Mel C) came on board to begin cutting and comping the mess of recorded material Karl and Peter had put in the can. Tchad Blake (Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, American Music Club) was tasked with the final mixing in 2007. “It’s a fine wine ready to be drunk,” says Peter Gabriel, “It was the most fun music making I’ve ever had. I’d love to do it again.” For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 5/14/08.