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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/3/2010 Peter Wolf & Neko Case “The Green Fields Of Summer” The new single from Midnight Souvenirs, on your desk and going for adds on Monday! “This delightful new album 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 songwriter. 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 blues 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 soul music. It lurked in his every phrase and gesture, from the band’s early ‘70s genre hits (“Love-Itis,” “Must of Got Lost”) 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 Steve Earle 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 country music. 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; Shelby Lynne, the mainstream country singer turned masterly soul and jazz ballad interpreter; and Merle Haggard, 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 Little Richard, Elvis and then Johnny Cash. 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 Muddy Waters, 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 Mick Jagger. 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 Boston 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.