RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 8/21/2019 Grace Potter “Love Is Love” Her first release on Fantasy/Concord, on PlayMPE and going for adds now! Produced by her husband, Eric Valentine (Weezer, Slash, Jesca Hoop) See her on tour: 8/22 Syracuse NY (NY State Fair), 8/31 Nashville TN (Live On The Green), 9/14-15 Burlington VT (Grand Point North), 9/21 Louisville KY (Bourbon & Beyond Festival) More dates announcing soon! Trigger Hippy “Don’t Wanna Bring You Down” The first single from Full Circle & Then Some, in stores 10/11 Early: WRLT, WCLX, WFIV, WMWV, KNBA, WBJB, WMVY Their new lineup features founding members drummer Steve Gorman (Black Crowes), bassist/vocalist Nick Govrik and new members vocal- ist/instrumentalist Ed Jurdi (Band of Heathens) and powerhouse vocalist/saxophonist Amber Woodhouse Full tour announcing this week Catfish and The Bottlemen “2all” The new single from The Balance, following up the AAA and Alt hit “Longshot” Over 1 billion artist streams to date! First week: WRLT, WPYA, WXPK, KVNA, KPND, KVYN, WBJB, WFIV, KSPN, WVOD, WYCE, KRSH, KROK, KDEC... US tour: 9/24 Raleigh, 9/26 New York City, 9/28 Philadelphia, 9/29 Washington DC, 10/1 Richmond, 10/2 Cincinnati... SOAK “Knock Me Off My Feet” The new single from Deja Vu, following up the hit “Deja Vu” New: Music Choice, WRLT, KCSN, WDST, WAPS, KJAC, KVNA, WEHM, KVNV, WTMD, WNRN and more Early: WFUV, KKAL, KSLU Fantastic in Boulder! “The snappy lead single is said to be a “love letter” to small-town culture and the idea that we ourselves can be our best allies and our worst enemies.” - Consequence of Sound Run River North “Wake Up” The first single from Monsters Calling Home, Volume 2, the second half of their collection of EPs this year Already on: KVNV, WEHM, KCLC, KLRR, WJCU, WFIV, WSGE, WLKR, WOCM, KSLU, KUWR, WHRV Catch them live on the road this fall Watch their Paste session on my site “Our songs sometimes take so much emotion to perform but this one feels effortless” - Alex Hwang/RRN White Reaper “Might Be Right” From their upcoming Elektra debut Mediabase 48*, BDS Monitored AAA #2 New & Active, FMQB Tracks 43*, Mediabase Alt 30*! New: WXRV, WNCS, KYMK, WLKR, KVYN, KBAC ON: WXRT, WRLT, KINK, KRVB, KCMP, KCSN, WFPK, WAPS, WTMD, KVNA, WDST, WPYA... Tour kicks off 10/3 “A jubilant storm of tight pop rock that’s indebted to the previous generation, but not derivative.” - Consequence of Sound Penny & Sparrow “Don’t Wanna Be Without Ya” The first single from the new album Finch, out now New: KRCC, KCLC, MSPR, KAXE, WERU ON: WPYA, WCLX, WNRN, WFIV, WYCE, WCBE, KNBA, KSLU, KUWR, WUMB, KRVM, Acoustic Cafe... “A lilting song about reincarnation with the rhyth- mic drive of Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” - Bruce Warren/WXPN Headlining tour runs Sept through Nov Robert Randolph & The Family Band “Baptise Me” From Brighter Days, out this Friday BDS Indicator 31*, FMQB Tracks 30*, Public 17*! New: KVYN, WZLO, WUMB, WMNF, MSPR, KUWR, KAXE... ON: Music Choice, WFUV, WRLT, WXPK, KCSN, WPYA, KXT, WTMD, WYEP, KJAC, WAPS, KPND, KVOQ, KVWF, WCLX, KRSH, WNRN... Headlining tour through Sept Watch the video on my site “The songwriting is impressively strong, with no weak or filler tracks.” - Glide Wilderado “Surefire” The first single from their forthcoming album ON: Music Choice, WPYA, KVNA, WWCT, WZEW, KVWF, KYMK, KVNV, WJCU, WCLX, KCLC, WYCE, KSPN, WFIV, KLRR, KSLU Played at Lollapalooza, Bottlerock and Shaky Knees Supporting Mt. Joy this fall: 10/12 Minneapolis, 10/14 Kansas City, 10/16 Dallas, 10/17 Austin, 10/18 Houston, 11/21 Denver “Big harmonies, big riffs, big heart” - Redbull.com 35 million lifetime band streams The Commonheart “Do Right” The first single from Pressure, out now New: KBAC, KXCI ON: WYEP, WAPS, KVWF, KMTN, WEXT, WUIN, WCLX, WYCE, KSMF, WFIV, KUWR, WMVY, WUKY, WCBE, KSLU, WFIT, KVNF, KAXE, KRCC, WERU, MSPR Fantastic set in Boulder! “Commanding vocals amid a Stax-style review” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Catch them on their headlining tour this fall Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors “End Of The World” The first single from Dragons, out now New: WZEW, WBJB, WNCW, KRCC... ON: Music Choice, WRLT, WPYA, KPND, WXCT, KRSH, KLRR, WOCM, WCLX, WYCE, KDRP, KNBA, KSMF, KVWF, WCLY, WCBE, KROK, WFIV, KTAO, KDTR, KUWR, WSGE, WBZS, KPIG... Extensive tour kicks off in September “Roots-rock road warriors whose mixed the boozy thrill of Saturday nights with the sweeping uplight of Sunday mornings.” - Rolling Stone Grizfolk “Hurricane” The first single from Rarest Of Birds, out now ON: KVNV, KVNA, WJCU, WCLX, WFIV, KLRR, WCBE, WYCE, KSMF, KROK, WOCM, KBAC, KCLC, KRML, WBSD, WXRY, KAXE, KUWR, KRCC, WFHB, WUSM... Playing Live On The Green and the KABOO Festival “Expanding their sound while diving into emotions such as patience, longing, and peace, ‘Rarest of Birds’ is Grizfolk’s method of finding light in the darkness.” - Atwood Mag The National “Rylan” From I Am Easy To Find Mediabase 24*, BDS Monitored 18*, Indicator 18*! New: KGSR, WQKL, KDTR, WSGE... ON: KBCO, KINK, WRNR, KRVB, WRLT, Music Choice, KCMP, WXPN, KXT, KCSN, WKLQ, WFPK, WFUV, KUTX, WYEP, KTBG, WCLZ, WRSI, KPND, KVNA, WTMD, KVNV, WPYA, KJAC, WYMS... More dates: 8/29 Seattle, 8/30 Portland, 9/1 Stanford CA, 9/2 LA, 9/3 Phoenix, 9/5 Ogden UT, 9/6-7 Denver, 9/8 Santa Fe... Boy & Bear “Hold Your Nerve” The first single from Suck On Light, in stores 9/27 Mediabase 33*, BDS Indicator 30* ON: WXRV, KINK, WRLT, WXPK, Music Choice, KCSN, KXT, WNCS, KVNA, WPYA, WAPS, KJAC, WWCT, WZEW, WDST, WCOO, KVNV, KPND, KVWF, KYMK, KRSH, WNRN, WCLX, WCNR, KRML... Produced by Boy & Bear and Collin Dupuis (Black Keys, Lana Del Rey) North American tour in September Justin Townes Earle “Ain’t Got No Money” From The Saint Of Lost Causes ON: KCMP, WFPK, KJAC, KTBG, KEXP, WCLX, WCLY, WMVY, KPIG, WNCW, WYCE, WCBE, WKZE, KBAC, WFIV, KRML, KVWF, WMWV, KBAC, WEXT, KNBA, KRCL, WFHB, WUMB, KXCI, WMNF... More tour dates coming up this fall “Far-ranging and fueled by both empathy and rage, it’s the opposite of myopic... It feels like the darkness before the dawn”- NPR Music Pete Yorn “Calm Down” From Caretakers, out now Mediabase 31*, BDS Monitored 33*, Indicator 27*! Killer performance at The Fox in Boulder! New: WWCT ON: WXRV, WRLT, WRNR, WMMM, KINK, WFUV, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, KXT, WPYA, Music Choice, WNCS, WFPK, WAPS, WXPK, KYMK, KVNA, KVOQ, WCOO, WTMD, WZEW, WRSI, KRSH, WBJB, WCLX, KVNV, WEXT, XM Loft... Watch the Kimmel performance on my site *repeat repeat “Hi, I’m Waiting” The first single from Glazed, produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, out now ON: WRLT, KTBG, WERS, WAPS, KVNV, KYMK, KVWF, WVOD, WBZS, KCLC, WCBE, WFIV, WCLX, KLRR, KSKI... “We can’t tell if this song is pop, surfer-cool certified, or a mix of both, but it doesn’t really matter, since we’ve been listening to it on *repeat repeat.” – Nylon On tour with The Black Keys and Modest Mouse in September/October Ryan Bingham “What Would I’ve Become” From American Love Song ON: Music Choice, KJAC, KPND, WCLX, WCLY, WFIV, KMTN, WBZS, WYCE, KNBA, KDRP, KRVM, KDEC, KSLU... “His most personal and political album to date, a rolling blues-country workout awash in slide guitar, soaring gospel-roadhouse stomps and meditative folk fingerpicking that takes on his past with a cautious hope for the future.” - Rolling Stone US tour dates coming in the fall Los Coast “Monsters” From Samsara, out now Fantastic lunchtime show in Boulder! New at KCSN! ON: KGSR, WRLT, WXPN, KUTX, KTBG, WYEP, KJAC, WTMD, KVNV, WCLX, KVWF, KRML, KBAC, WJCU, WCBE, WNCW, WVOD, WBJB, KSUT... More dates with Gary Clark Jr coming in September Already toured this year with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Black Pumas and more Judah & The Lion “Why Did You Run?” The new single from Pep Talks, out now ON: KGSR, Music Choice, WZEW, WPYA, WWCT, KVNA, KVNV, WCLX, KDRP, KMMS, KROK, WOCM, WUKY, WVOD, WFIV, KCLC, WBZS, WLKR... Mediabase Alternative #13 Great streaming numbers On tour: 8/21 Birmingham, 8/22 Charlotte, 8/23 Raleigh, 8/24 Nashville, 9/5 Columbus, 9/6 Pittsburgh, 9/7 Portsmouth VA... Vampire Weekend “This Life” The new single from Father Of The Bride Mediabase 5*, BDS Monitored #3, Indicator #3, Mediabase Alt 17*! “A sunny upbeat track with a catchy guitar lick and ’90s pop-rock allure” - Spin Tons of Best of 2019 lists On tour now: 8/21 Austin, 8/24 Miami, 8/25 St. Augustine FL, 8/27 Atlanta, 8/29 Columbia MD, 8/30 Norfolk, 9/3 Boston, 9/4 Philadelphia... Glide chimes in on the new Robert Randolph & The Family Band album “The book on sacred steel legend Robert Randolph has always been that his music is more on the secular side of the aisle than the religious, but on Brighter Days, there’s plenty of incred- ible music—gospel, rock, and otherwise—that’ll pretty much keep everybody happy, and bowing their heads in gratitude. Sacred steel refers to the electric pedal steel guitar-driven music played in African American Pentecostal churches, going back to the 1930s. The music bubbled into the mainstream in the 1990s thanks to Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music In Florida, a compilation album, originally released on cassette but eventually licensed inter- nationally. That compilation introduced many to the rocking gospel sound. And it’s what got Robert Randolph, a New Jersey pedal steel genius, noticed, moving from the jam scene to a major label contract. Randolph and the Family Band have held on to their gospel roots. “Baptise Me,” the album’s opening track, has a funky groove and an uplifting chorus. Randolph’s steel darts through the song while his bluesy voice anchors the song emotionally. In fact, between the passion of the vocals, and the beautiful steel guitar sliding through the tune, you might think you’re listening to a lost track from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The music might not work in a house of worship, but the message is spot-on. “Strange Train” is much more typical gospel, with a fast shuffle and a choir for background vocals. Randolph’s steel squeals through the song, like a soul enthralled in the ecstasy of catching the holy spirit. If Randolph and the Family Band just did straight gospel for an album, everyone would be pretty happy, but they do mix up the genres. “Cut Em Loose” is more of a rock track, complete with some distortion on the pedal steel. It’s a cool song, mostly due to the hybrid sound created by Randolph. In many ways, his pedal steel sounds like a rock slide guitar, but the slides he’s able to make are longer and just different enough, that you’re not hearing the standard rock licks you might be expecting. “Cry Over Me” is another pleasant surprise. It’s a rock ballad sung by his sister, Lenesha Randolph. It’s a pretty track, thanks partially to the restrained musical arrangement, featuring piano and organ, but mostly to Lenesha’s voice, which is bluesy with just a small hit of vulnerability. Randolph’s guitar work is lyrical, almost duplicating the complexity of his sister’s vocal lines. Brighter Days is one of those albums that sounds like whatever you want it to. Most music fans will hear something they recognize in the music. The gospel isn’t particularly hard to find, but the rock, country, blues, soul, and funk are nice treats, seemingly appearing whenever the listener wants them. The songwriting is impressively strong, with no weak or filler tracks. While Randolph is the focal point, the Family Band, which, in addition to his sister, includes cousins Danyel Morgan on bass and Marcus Randolph on drums, is amazingly versatile in how they can move between styles so fluidly. Brighter Days comes from sacred steel, and remains rooted in it, but isn’t locked into it.” - Glide, 8/20/19 The Associated Press has wonderful things to say about Penny & Sparrow “Texas-raised duo Penny & Sparrow had to do some heavy touring to truly search their souls. They explore the resulting range of emotions and deliver it on their sixth album “Finch,” an effort thick with gorgeous tales of personal transformation. Band members Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke were both raised in a conservative cli- mate and sought to break free from the “white Evangelical Christian male” perspective that shaped their early surroundings, the band explains in liner notes. Sonically, there is a smooth and soaring feel to most of the tracks, yet each has its own distinct energy. “Recuerda” is love song heavy on crooning, while “Don’t Wanna Be Without Ya” gives way to a galloping pace as the concept of reincarnated lovers is ex- plored. “Long Gone” is sexy and sultry and highlights the fact that Baxter can absolutely sing a slow jam. Ultimately, rich and breathy vocals with a slight choral effect carry the day here. There’s a dependable luster to Penny & Sparrow’s songs. Songs begin dour, but eventually find their footing and reveal hope amid bass lines and light guitar. Think of this as Americana with a designer shirt. The traditional elements are there, but they’re layered with a modern sheen that sets the songs apart from a tired approach.” - AP, 8/2/2019 Coming up for 9/2 adds: Robbie Robertson “Let Love Reign” (feat. Glen Hansard) RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 8/21/2019