RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/3/2010 & “The Green Fields Of Summer” The new single from Midnight Souvenirs, on your desk and going for adds on Monday! “This delightful new makes one thing clear: Nothing can kill Wolf’s charm, musicality and youthfulness.” - Rolling Stone Upcoming live shows: 11/20 Brownfield ME, 11/21 Northampton MA, 11/23 Norfolk CT, 11/26 Fall River MA Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs “For The Summer” #1 Most Added by a landslide! First week: KBCO, WRNR, WNCS, WTTS, WCOO, KPND, KEZE, WCLZ, WQKL... BDS New & Active already! ON: WXPK, WRNR, WRLT, KRSH, Sirius Spectrum, WEHM, WBJB, KTBG, WMVY, WDST, WTMD... Nearing 200K sold Etown airs this week! On tour in November with Levon Helm World Cafe repeat just aired Truth & Salvage Co. “Pure Mountain Angel” Edit single on your desk and PlayMPE New: WFIV Already on: WVMP, WDST, KNBA, WOCM More touring soon Produced by Chris Robinson “Truth & Salvage Co has what it takes for the long haul.” - David Fricke, Rolling Stone One of the Top 10 Bands To Watch - USA Today “Don’t bank on them to remain an unknown quantity for long.” - Blurt Court Yard Hounds “See You In The Spring” (feat. Jakob Dylan) New: WMVY, Music Choice, WFIT, KSLU ON: KPIG, WYEP, KRSH, WFIV, WVMP, WBJB, KOHO, KNBA, KTAO, KTBG, WEXT, WNRN, KMTN... “In Maines’ absence, Robison eases into the role of lead singer as well as principal . Her understated vocals, long relegated to harmony, let these songs tell the story, their subtle pleasures sinking in with repeated listens.” - People Magazine Hill Country Revue “Raise Your Right Hand” Good Old War “That’s Some Dream” Zebra Ranch in stores now! New: KSPN, KFMU, WYCE, WUTC, WFHB, KRCC New: WNRN, WFIT ON: Music Choice, WFIV, KCLC, WOCM, KOHO, WVMP, ON: KPND, KVSF, WFIV, WVOD, KYSL, KBAC, WOCM, KZMV, KROK, WCBE, WNKU... KZMV, WBJB KFMU, KSPN, DMX, KMTN, KNBA... On tour with Dr. Dog Headlining dates now Video online See the great Relix review on page 2 now, then hitting the road with Joshua Radin, then Dashboard Confessional Fistful of Mercy “Father’s Son” Mike Farris & The Cumberland Saints “The Night The Cumberland Came Alive” BDS New & Active! Indicator 6*! FMQB Public 4*! New: KINK, WQKL, WRRW New: WKZE, WUTC ON: WCBE, WSGE, MSPR, KFAN, WYSO, WNKU ON: WXRT, WXRV, KMTT, WRNR, WXPK, KTHX, Sirius, WCOO, KPND, WXPK, WEHM... All star team of talent: Sam Bush, Ketch Secor, Gill Landry, Kenny Vaughan, Bryon One of Conan’s first guests - 11/10 Sold out US tour dates start next week House & the McCrary Sisters Proceeds to benefit the flood victims in Nashville One eskimO “Amazing” Old 97’s “Every Night Is Friday Night” BDS Monitored 26*! Indicator 17*! New: KTCZ, KTHX ON: WXRV, KINK, BDS Indicator 15*! FMQB Public 7*! New: WRNR, WYMS, KROK, WNKU... CIDR, WXPK, WZEW, KRSH, WCLZ, WQKL, KRVB. WRLT, KEZE, WCOO, ON: WXRT, KGSR, WCLZ, KPND, WEHM, WCNR, KVSF, KTBG, WYCE, WVOD, WFUV, KCMP... WCNR, WXPN, WNWV, WYMS... Over 50K sold! US tour going on now In stores now! Their 8th album, produced by Salim Nourallah Dec tour Tired Pony “Dead American Writers” Jason Spooner “Half A Mind” BDS Monitored 13*! Indicator 3*! FMQB Public #10! New: KHUM, KUWR New: WCNR, WFIT ON: KPND, WTMD, KSPN, KFMU, KBAC, WMVY, KRVO, ON: KBCO, WXRT, KINK, KGSR, WXRV, WTTS, WXPK, WRLT, WRNR, WNCS, WCLZ, KMTN, WBJB, WKZE, WEXT, KTAO, WFIV, WJCU, WYCE, KNBA... On tour now WMMM, Sirius, WRNX, KEZE, KTHX, WNWV... “The best work Lightbody has done.” - Q “The songs refuse to wallow in melodrama.” - Performer Magazine Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Paris (Ooh La La)” Sarah Jaffe “Clementine” BDS Monitored 23*! Indicator #21! VH-1 You Oughta Know artist/video for November FMQB Tracks Debut 47*! New: WMVY, KCLC, Music Choice ON: WZEW, WCOO, ON: Dave-FM, WRNR, WNCS, KTHX, WCLZ, WRLT, KEZE, WZEW, KRVB, WRNX, WCOO, KRSH... KRSH, KPND, WFPK, WCBE, KNBA, WYEP, WFIV, WMWV, WVMP... Dec touring Just finished an extensive tour with Avetts, Sharon Jones & more... more in Dec “I saw Sarah play at a house party in Denton... I was blown away.” - Norah Jones David Gray “A Moment Changes Everything” Los Lonely Boys “Oye Mamacita” BDS Monitored #9! Indicator #25! ON: WXRT, KTCZ, KFOG, KGSR, KBCO, ON: KPIG, KROK, KOZT, KBAC, WYCE, WEXT, WFIV, KVSF, WMWV, KMTN, KINK, WXRV, KMTT, Dave-FM, Sirius, WRNR, WTTS, WMMM, WXPK, KPTL... WUIN, KZMV, WNKU, KOHO, KSKI, KFMG... Single edit on PlayMPE now Great sales! TV appearances on Leno and CBS morning show Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live!, recorded during their Acoustic Brotherhood tour, in stores Relix raves in their review of Hill Country Revue “The Dickinsons have always kept one foot in the Mississippi Hill Country. Though the region’s musical patriarchs have passed on since the Brothers’ North Mississippi Allstars led a generation-spanning Bonnaroo jam— dubbed Hill Country Revue—Cody Dickinson’s formed a bona fide band under that moniker, switching from the drums (his Allstars role) to guitar (brother Luther’s usual gig). The group named its second album in two years, Zebra Ranch, for the Dickinsons’ late father’s studio. Yet, it is not a Hill Country tribute as much as it is a Southern hard rock album. The band’s muscular guitar attack yields formidable riffs during “Chalk It Up” and “Bottom $,” while the instrumental title track shifts from an iron-clad unison lick into a Meters-style groove. Daniel Coburn’s vocals have more stiffness than swagger, but that’s almost beside the point, which is, clearly, to rock.” - RELIX, December 2010 Peter Wolf catches up with the Wall Street Journal “Fans around the world who heard or saw Peter Wolf’s hot-charged vocal attack through the 17 years he fronted the much loved and admired J. Geils Band couldn’t help but be aware of his passion for both hardcore urban blues and . It lurked in his every phrase and gesture, from the band’s early ‘70s genre hits (“Love-Itis,” “”) to the breakout global pop smashes of the ‘80s (“Love Stinks,” “Centerfold,” “Freeze-Frame”). But “Some Things You Don’t Want to Know”—a fiddle-driven duet with on Mr. Wolf’s acclaimed 2002 solo release, Sleepless—now looks like an indicator of another, lesser-known side of the rocker’s roots influences and passions: his longstanding love of . Mr. Wolf’s new release Midnight Souvenirs, released last month on Verve/Universal, uncloaks that relatively hidden interest by means of three duets with highly individual, genre-hop- ping singers that have substantial, if varying, degrees of “country” in their résumés: Neko Case, the alternative-country exponent turned indie rock star; , the mainstream country singer turned masterly soul and jazz ballad interpreter; and , the formidably jazzy but unabashedly country legend. The fact is, Mr. Wolf had an under-the-radar stand as a contracted Nashville songwriter in the ‘80s. “To me,” he explained in a recent phone conversation, “country’s an obvious kind of leap once you get sanctified into the world of rock ‘n’ roll, and it overtakes you like it overtook me—when I first heard , Elvis and then . I started to find out where they came from, their influ- ences. And for me, it seems like the honky-tonks that were home for country artists like Buck Owens, Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell were simply made for one kind of blue-collar culture and ethnicity, just as the juke joints were for the African-Americans who also were working in fields and mills and mov- ing up North to get more work. I don’t see any difference, finally, between Howlin’ Wolf or , whom I met and even became friends with when I got deep into blues, and their tremendous sense of both tradition and the present, and George Jones or Hank Williams.” For all of his historic abandon on stage and disc, Mr. Wolf proves a thoughtful, appreciative student and commentator on virtually every corner of American popular-music history and performance. He makes some lucid, relevant points about vocal range and its effects: “Merle Haggard is simply one of my favorite singers. For one thing, I’m kind of a baritone myself. Baritones were pretty common in the era of the crooners—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole. Then came rock ‘n’ roll, and Elvis and Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were all tenors, as were even the Beatles and . Tenors just seemed to take over. But in Merle, there’s that quality of richness that a baritone has, and an intimacy and command and distinction that I would put on a par with Sinatra. A lot of my audience might only know Merle as ‘that guy who sang “Okie from Musk- ogee,”’ but that’s like saying Sinatra is ‘the guy who did “New York, New York”’ because that’s all you know. Merle’s an international treasure—period.” The twang connection was already there when young Peter Wolf, Bronx-raised, began appearing with the band the Hallucinations around and Cambridge, Mass., in the mid-’60s, in a scene that included not just folk’s famed Club 47 and the R&B-oriented Sugar Shack, but also the Hillbilly Ranch. Among those who caught his shows was Gram Parsons, who would soon be working with their mutual friend, Barry Tashian, in an early version of the protocountry-rock International Submarine Band. It’s a connection that lies behind Mr. Parson’s well-known turn on “Cry One More Time,” a ballad penned by Mr. Wolf and his J. Geils bandmate . In the 2010 edition of Mr. Wolf’s “solo” career—in which he has virtually never sung or written alone—his most frequent collaborator is songwriter , whom he describes as a “genius and mentor.” They co-wrote such striking ballads on the new CD as “It’s Too Late for Me,” that duet with Mr. Haggard, and “The Night Comes Down,” dedicated to the late rocker . , who co-produced Midnight Souvenirs, is another frequent collaborator, but taking charge of the releases that appear under his own name has been one attraction of Mr. Wolf’s “solo” status since 1983. “With all of my projects, I just think of myself as someone who tries to cast the right cast of characters, and also I want to be able to record in the way the records that I love were made. Not that I’m against modern technology; whatever sounds good, is good. But with my aesthetic sensibility, the more traditional ways of recording that I was brought up with are the ones that have a resonance for me.” It’s startling to realize that Mr. Wolf’s career under his own name has now continued even longer than his uninterrupted stretch with the band, though it shouldn’t be a surprise that there have been occasional J. Geils reunions, including several shows just last year. “The break-up of the J. Geils Band was not something that I wanted,” he remarked, “and being a solo artist was not something that I chose; it was something that I had to do to continue as a performer, and to continue to make records. It was a painful, sad aspect, a fratricide, when artistic differences came out. There is something very sacred about a band; I’m talking about a real band here, the way U2, or , or the original Lynyrd Skynyrd were a band. We had a tradition in our shows that I feel good about—but life goes through its twists and turns.” Midnight Souvenirs, with its polish and soulful grace, suggests that the music-making still inspires Mr. Wolf, who turned 64 in March. “Definitely so. For me, the only way to describe it is like this: You meet a significant other, and you get an electric charge, this strong emotional pull to the person, and it becomes an obsession that turns into what you call ‘love.’ That’s what happened with music; I fell in love with the process.” - Wall Street Journal, May 13 2010 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 - 11/3/10