RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 9/22/2010 Old 97’s “Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)” The first single from their new The Grand Theatre Volume 1, in stores October 12 and going for adds on Monday Most Added Early! Already on board: WFUV, KUT, KCMP, WXPN, WYEP, WFPK, WTMD, KRSH, KEXP, KNBA, WEXT, WFIV... Texas in-stores in October, full tour in December This is Old 97’s eighth studio album, produced by Salim Nourallah Los Lonely Boys “Oye Mamacita” The first single from Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live!, their new album recorded during their Acoustic Brotherhood tour Edit available on PlayMPE In stores on Tuesday Album features appearances by Alejandro Escovedo & Rodriguez Early: KOZT, KFMG, WHRV, KFAN, KLCC On tour now - see page 2 New studio album coming from the guys in early 2011 Fistful of Mercy “Father’s Son” #1 Most Added!! Already on: WXPK, Sirius Spectrum, KCRW, WFUV, WFPK, WFIV, WTMD, WYEP, KZMV, KSMT, WMVY, KLRR, WDST, WUIN, KSPN, KFMU, KNBA, WCBE, KOZT, WBJB, KTBG, KMTN, KFMG... Full album As I Call You Down in stores 10/5 Fistful of Mercy is , and (George’s son) Launch performances on KCRW and KEXP Tour dates in November Tired Pony “Dead American Writers” BDS Monitored Debut 30*!! Indicator Debut 19*! FMQB Public Debut 37*! New: WXRV, WRNX, WNCS, KCRW, KRVO, KZMV, WYSO... ON: KBCO, KGSR, WXPK, WRLT, WRNR, Sirius Spectrum, KEZE, KRVB, KPND, KRSH, WEHM, KCMP, WTMD, KUT, WFIV, WFPK, KSMT, KSPN, KFMU... The Place We Ran From in stores Tuesday “The best work Lightbody has done.” - Q Magazine Letterman 9/30 Two US shows: 10/1 NYC, 10/4 Los Angeles Sarah Jaffe “Clementine” One eskimO “Amazing” New: WZEW, KRSH, WFPK, KFMU, KSPN, DMX, KMTN, WNCW, WVMP, WERU, KRVM, BDS Indicator 28*! New: CIDR, WYMS, KBAC ON: WXRV, KRVB. Sirius Spectrum, WRLT, KFAN, WSYC ... ON: KUT, WCBE, KNBA, WYCE, KLCC, KRCL, Maine Public Radio... KEZE, WCOO, KDAL, WCNR, WXPN, WNWV, WVOD, WTMD, KLRR, KRVO, KOHO, KROK, “I saw Sarah play at a house party in Denton... I was blown away.” - Norah Jones WEXT, WFIV, KSMT, WUIN, KFMU, KSPN, KZMV, KDBB... US dates in October & November Santana “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Paris (Ooh La La)” Featuring India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma, in stores now! New: WZEW, KUT, KFAN BDS Monitored #1 New & Active! Indicator 14*! New: KMMS, WCBE ON: WCOO, KRSH, WNWV, WFIV, KSUT, KFMU, KSPN, KLRR, KOZT, WOCM, KOHO, KDBB... ON: Dave-FM, WRNR, WNCS, KTHX, WCLZ, WRLT, KEZE, WZEW, KRVB, WCOO, WCNR, WDST... From Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time Just played Leno, Lopez tonight Tour dates with The Avett Bros, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and more Jarrod Gorbel “Ten Years Older” Ryan Montbleau Band “Songbird” The frontman of The Honorary Title New: DMX ON: WFIV, WYCE, KOHO, MSPR, KFMG... Heavy On The Vine on your desk now, in stores now New: WSGE, KRVM, KFAN Full cd Devil’s Made A New Friend on your desk, single on PlayMPE Tour starts 9/29 ON: WMVY, WEXT, KSPN, KFMU, KOHO, WNCW, WERS, KHUM, KZMV, WCBE, WUTC, KDTR... Great press in Nylon “Gorbel still has his strikingly gorgeous voice.” - Rolling Stone Produced by Martin Sexton Tour dates now through November David Gray “A Moment Changes Everything” “California Via Tennessee” BDS Monitored 9*! Indicator #5! New: WTTS, DMX, WNCW, KLCC, KUNC... The rocking first single from his new album Black Ribbons, going for adds now ON: WXRT, KTCZ, KFOG, KGSR, KBCO, KINK, WXRV, KMTT, Dave-FM, Sirius, WRNR, WMMM, New: WJCU, WFIV Full cd and FCC clean cd-pro on your desk Killer press On tour WXPK, WNCS... Almost 50K sold Great tv appearances on Leno and CBS morning show ON: KBAC, WOCM, KSLU, WERU, WSYC, KKCR Featuring narrative by Sarah McLachlan “Forgiveness” Jenny & Johnny “Scissor Runner” ON: KTCZ, WCLZ, KEZE, KZMV, WFIV, KROK, WYCE, WMVY, KSUT, WMWV, WYEP... From Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Johnathan Rice, in stores now! On tour now Sarah & Friends tour in Nov Just played on Leno & America’s Got Talent FMQB Public 16*! Tracks Debut 48*! New: WCBE, WFIT, KXCI, WGWG, Maine Public Every one of Sarah’s has gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum ON: WRNR, WCNR, WXPN, WFUV, KCMP, KCRW, KEXP, KUT, WFPK, WTMD, WYEP, WTYD... Bobby Bare Jr “Sad Smile” Jason Spooner “Crashing Down” FMQB Public 40*! ON: WFUV, Sirius XM The Loft, KEXP, KUT, WFPK, WFIV, WEVL, New: KFMU, KSPN, KUNC ON: WCLZ, WCNR, WFIV, WMVY, KRVO, KCLC, WJCU, WNCW, DMX, KZMV, WNRN, WJCU, WCBE, KNBA, WYCE, KRCL, WMNF, KXCI, WFHB... WMWV, WKZE, KBAC, WBJB, WCBE, KNBA... Opening for Ryan Montbleau Band in Oct A Storm - A Tree - My Mother’s Head in stores now On tour now with Blue Giant The next single, Half A Mind (track 2) goes for AAA adds October 4! Los Lonely Boys bring the Texican rock n’ roll on tour this fall 9/25 Las Cruces, NM - Whole Enchilada Fest 10/21 Ridgefield, CT - Ridgefield Playhouse 9/27 Austin, TX - Waterloo Records 10/22 Lebanon, NH - Lebanon Opera House 9/30 Lubbock, TX - South Plains Fairgrounds 10/23 Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods 10/3 Santa Fe, NM - Buffalo Thunder 10/24 Harrisburg, PA - The Forum Auditorium 10/9 New Orleans, LA - Mardi Gras World East 11/5 Mission, TX - Las Palmas Race Park 10/15 Youngstown, OH - Stambaugh Auditorium 11/6 Boerne, TX - Javelina Harley Davidson 10/16 Marion, OH - Palace Theatre 11/18 Austin, TX - AT&T Conference Center 10/17 Schaumburg, IL - Prairie Center 11/26 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre 10/19 Burgettstown, PA - Pepsi Cola Roadhouse 11/27 Houston, TX - House of Blues Nashville Scene breaks down Bobby Bare Jr’s new project “Both Bobby Bare Jr. and his music seem remarkably unencumbered for somebody with as much history as he has in this town. For starters, he carries the name and likeness of his ‘60s and ‘70s progressive country star dad, with whom he famously dueted on a sentimental father-son num- ber in 1973. That performance not only made him a very young Grammy nominee but supplied his less sentimental friends with something to rib him about during his college days at Belmont. Bare is still remembered for a band he lent his name to — the Bare Jr. half of , anyway — after his college days. A grungy roots rock band that made waves playing Exit/In, Bare Jr. didn’t get much of anywhere commercially, even with two major-label albums. (Incidentally, that band fea- tured a pre-entrepreneurial Mike Grimes on guitar. As Bare says from the road, “If Grimey [hadn’t] end[ed] up not playing with Bare Jr., there may not have ever been a Grimey’s Record Store, a Slow Bar or a Basement.”) Memories of the band apparently persist well outside of Nashville, too. Bare expresses genuine amazement that a pristine copy of the band’s out-of-print 2000 album Brainwasher is currently listed for $60 on Amazon: “That’s funny. We didn’t sell 3,000 of those.” But he seems pretty at ease with that legacy. “It’s weird how many people request Bare Jr. songs every single night,” he says. “That was 12 years ago. I’ll play ‘You Blew Me Off,’ or I’ll do an acoustic version of ‘Nothin’ Better to Do.’ “ Bare’s been doing his own thing the past eight years, making indie albums stocked with twistedly witty and wrenchingly self-deprecating songs, none better than his latest variegated set, A Storm — A Tree — My Mother’s Head. “Liz Taylor’s Lipstick Gun,” a detailed yet off-the-wall story-song, is on there. “I just don’t think many people knew that Opie Taylor was Liz Taylor’s son,” Bare says, with the same deadpan delivery he employs throughout the song. “I think everybody should know about that.” Then there’s “But I Do,” a fractured and fresh consideration of getting tugged between love and weakness that he co-wrote with his dad, each contributor coming from decidedly different places as songwriters. “He’s always right,” says the younger Bare of the elder. Given Bare Jr.’s procliv- ity toward wry answers, it’s hard to tell in the moment if he really means that his dad only thinks he’s always right. “No, he actually is,” Bare says by way of clarification. “It’s good to have somebody like that in the room. Even as hard as I resist — and I’ll fight him on stuff — in the end he’s right. And he’s really courageous, too.” To top it all off, the album’s title track is a dark and skewed ballad about the stormy night his mother nearly met her end alone in the Henderson- ville home where he grew up. It’s the sort of troubling family tale few songwriters would want to tackle; Bare, on the other hand, even convinced his mom to come to the recording session and shriek theatrically on the track, a lot like she must’ve when the tree fell. Of his nothing’s-off-limits approach to songwriting, he says, “When you get to that place where most people would back down and chicken out, that’s right where it’s most important to keep going with it, whatever it is.” It’s harder to imagine his dad wanting to take part in the writing of a dramatic, indiefied vignette like “A Storm — A Tree — My Mother’s Head.” And he didn’t — Bare wrote that one on his own. But it’s the kind of thing that would’ve been right up the alley of his dad’s late friend and col- laborator (and Bare’s own mentor of a sort), poet-songwriter Shel Silvertstein, whose surreal sensibilities are the most obvious intergenerational touchstone for Bare’s music. (It was a performance of Silverstein’s “Daddy What If ” that earned the two Bares their Grammy nomination.) Together, father and son recently produced Twistable Turnable Man, a multi-artist tribute to Silverstein’s songwriting, and the son — who, of the two, has the greater number of indie musician friends by far — took the lead in lining up acts like Dr. Dog, Black Francis and My Morning Jacket. Most people below the age of 40 who dig My Morning Jacket’s music — and, for that matter, Bare’s — wouldn’t know his dad’s music to com- pare it to, since he long ago retired from making albums. The exception is 2005’s indie countrypolitan album The Moon Was Blue, on which Bare — serving as producer — surrounded his dad with members of Lambchop, Andrew Bird and the like to introduce his still-worthy voice to a new audience. On some recording projects and co-writes Bare shuttles between musical and generational worlds, but it’s clear he also has a scene of his own. And that’s the source of the colorful, raw-nerved rock and thoroughly postmodern country sounds on his new album. Along with co-producer David Vandervelde, three of the guys from MMJ — steel guitarist Carl Broemel, drummer Patrick Hallahan and bassist Tom Blankenship — are key players. “Yeah, the band really, really liked working on these arrangements, and co-writing,” Bare says. “They co-wrote a lot of the record with me. ... I guess this kinda is their music, too. [We like to see] just how far we can push it.”” - Nashville Scene Coming Up... 10/4: Jason Spooner “Half A Mind”... 10/18: Good Old War “That’s Some Dream,” Hill Country Revue “Raise Your Right Hand” 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 - 9/22/10