RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 6/17/2009 Erin McCarley “Pitter Pat” Already on: KTCZ, KWMT, KPTL, WCOO, WWMM, KDAL, Music Choice Top 10 reseach at Cities 97! Great listener response: Airplay=Sales On tour now with Mat Kearney! Killer shows at Bonnaroo Nelo “Love Solution” The first single from their Two Years Ago ep, on your desk and going for adds now! New: KRVO, KZMV, KRVM ON: WBJB On tour! “A true band in every sense, one to watch for sure, but better yet, LISTEN, too!” - Bryan Beck/KGSR Between The Trees “We Can Try” New: KOHO, KZMV ON: KFMU, KROK, WVOD, KCLC, WRRW Si ngle on your desk and full album on PlayMPE In stores 8/11 This band has sold over 100,000 albums Past touring includes OAR and multiple Warped tours! On tour in July Miike Snow “Animal” New: WEXT, KSMT, WNTI, KKCR Already on: WRXP, WEHM, KCRW, KEXP, WTMD, KCLC, WXPN, WAPS, WFPK... Miike Snow is Swedish super-producers Christian Karlsson & Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt US tour now! Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam “Tear Down The Walls” FMQB Most Added AGAIN! New: SiirusXM Spectrum, WFPK, KPND, KSUT, WJCU, KYSL, KNBA, KBAC... ON: WZEW, WXPK, WXPN, WUIN, KMMS, KFMU, KROK, WEXT... In stores now! Nonstop US touring all year Charlie Mars “Listen To The Darkside” Meiko “Under My Bed” New: KGSR, KMMS, SiriusXM Loft... ON: WRNR, WCOO, WEHM, New: WCOO, KSMT ON: KXLY, KRSH, WCNR, KOHO, KBAC, KCLC, KSPN, WUIN, WTMD... Opening for Bob Schneider this month WOCM, KTAO, Music Choice... On tour this month with Eric Hutchinson Huge listener reaction on WRNR! Video features Mary Louise Parker The follow-up to her top 20 AAA hit “Boys With Girlfriends” Company Of Thieves “Oscar Wilde” Meat Puppets “Rotten Shame” New: WJCU, KMTN, KSUT, KSLU, KVNF Edit available on PlayMPE New: KMMS, KKCR ON: WFUV, KUT, WFPK, WYCE, KSPN, WJCU, WNRN, ON: WXRT, WCLZ, WCNR, WFUV, WTMD, WFPK, WTYD, WDST, KSPN... KBAC, KROK, WBJB, WOCM, KSMT, WYSO, KZMV, WNTI, WNKU, KRCC... Full cd in stores now, national tour this month with Plain White T’s Incredible press! Sewn Together, their first since 2006, in stores now Hill Country Revue “You Can Make It” Rusted Root “Dance In The Middle” R&R Indicator #14! FMQB Tracks 22*! New: KMMS, WVOD, WUMB FMQB Public 19*! Tracks 50*! ON: WYEP, WEXT, KYSL, ON: KBCO, WZEW, KTHX, WCOO, KRSH, WXPK, KPND, WFIV, KPIG, WFUV... KTBG, KPND, KMTN, KFMU, KSPN, WOCM, WBJB, KOHO... Features Cody and Chris from North Mississippi Allstars On tour now On tour all summer, headlining Sound Czech Festival dates July/August Green River Ordinance “Come On” Katie Melua “If The Lights Go Out” ON: KTCZ, KPRI, KENZ, WCLZ, WNCS, KWMT, KXLY, KPTL, WRLT, KRSH... ON: KRSH, WCNR, WCBE, KOHO, KTAO, KZMV, KFAN, Nonstop touring inlcuding dates with Collective Soul/ KRVM, KUWR, KKCR, KVNF, KSMF... Pictures in stores now Gavin DeGraw then with Needtobreathe/Griffin House Katie has sold over 10 million albums worldwide Coming up... July: Ingrid Michaelson, Jonah Smith, Good Old War and more... Blurting out a great review for Davy Knowles “"Feels like comin' home." That was your truly's instant reaction upon hearing Back Door Slam's 2007 debut Roll Away, a blustery slice of blues-based power trio rawk channeling the collective spirits of Cream, Taste, Blue Cheer, Beck Bogert & Appice, etc. - stuff I cut my teeth on as a teenaager and still love dearly. With elements of southern rock creeping into the mix as well - think a younger version of Gov't Mule - and twin-powered by frontman Davy Knowles' coal-black vox and uncommonly accomplished fretwork (he was barely into his twenties), the three-piece from Britain's Isle of Man quickly established itself as a favorite on the festival and jamband circuits. Meanwhile, sonic catnip for the aging critics in the crowd was provided by way of concert setlists liberally stuffed with the classics (for example, hi-octane covers of "Outside Woman Blues," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Been Down So Long" and a positively Hendrixian "Red House" - all included, incidentally, on the Live From Bonnaroo album recently issued by the band's label, Blix Street, on double vinyl LP and promotional-only CD). Before the year was out, Back Door Slam was making the rounds of tastemaker radio and the TV talk shows. Not bad for a group that only made its official public debut in March at SXSW. Unfortunately, Back Door Slam's ascent proved to be too fast, too soon, and in 2008 the trio dissolved. Knowles, shrewdly, opted to retain the name as he put together a different incarnation of the band, hiring a new rhythm section, drafting the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench for keyboard duties and bringing in heavy hitters Peter Frampton (production) and Bob Clearmountain (mixing) to up the commercial ante. Strategizing aside, though, there's nothing shrewd or calculated about the music on Coming Up For Air - it's every bit as authentic and thrilling as the material on its predecessor. In terms of the most overt differences between the two albums, Tench's Hammond probably stands out the most. While there were keyboards present on Roll Away, here the organ plays a greater contextual role to subtly steer Back Door Slam away from its initial power trio aesthetic and towards slinkier, subtler, more soulful grooves not unlike the way Danny Louis helped evolve latterday Gov't Mule. This becomes obvious from the get-go with the title cut - an anthemic slice of midtempo, wah-wah flecked hard rock awash in neopsychedelic colorings - and later, on a striking gospel-blues cover of George Harrison's "Hear Me Lord," which features producer Frampton lending his guitar skills to the arrangement. Additionally, in the spooky, spectral "Mistakes" Tench sparingly deploys a Wurlitzer to convey a jazzier, almost noirish vibe; such elegant fleshing out of the core Back Door Slam sound would suggest that if Tench isn't available for touring, Knowles would be wise to cast around for a permanent keyboardist. Fans of the debut won't have any complaints, however. Back Door Slam revisits its roots on several cuts, notably the kinetic chugger "Tear Down The Walls" and "Keep On Searching," a brawny, swaggering rocker that brings to mind the late, great Free (particularly in Knowles' athletic Paul Rodgers-esque vocals) or even Frampton's old combo Humble Pie. On the latter cut Frampton again contributes some of his signature electric guitar, and it's a gas to hear him in one speaker and Knowles in the other as they go mano a mano in a duel of spiraling riffs. Also familiar to those who own Roll Away: backing vocalist Christine Collister, who appeared on the 2007 album and is present on a number of tracks here. (Hailing, like Knowles, from the Isle of Man, Collister is a much-admired veteran of the British folk/blues/jazz scene, having worked since the ‘80s with the likes of Richard Thompson and Clive Gregson and additionally releasing a number of solo records.) Another gifted female songstress guests on Coming Up For Air as well: Jonatha Brooke, who submits a saucy duet with Knowles on the album's closing track, "Taste of Danger." Knowles may claim to be coming up for air on his sophomore effort, given all that's gone down for him over the past several years, but there's no question Coming Up For Air is only going to accelerate his career trajectory even further. Better take a deep, long breath, kid.” - Blurt Magazine Hill Country Revue gets stellar press “A Roar of funky blues....something to behold. Messily psychedelic and soulfully Allmans-esque.” - Philadelphia Inquirer “Hill Country Revue delivers greasy, hard-driving blues in the Southern rock tradition. On Make a Move, the Revue shows off its Deep South blues roots and penchant for Allman Brothers-style rock.” - Blue Revue “Hill Country play neo-Southern blues-rock with a harder, faster edge. Attacks songs with an edge that suggests prime Allman Brothers, mixed with early Johnny Winter.” - New York Daily News “Acoustic guitars bring depth, demonstrating Hill Country Revue’s immersion in the roots of the blues and rock from which they forge their style.” - Glide Magazine For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 6/17/09