RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 4/2/2008 “Free Life” The second single from his cd Free Life, exec produced by Rick Rubin Already on: Sirius, KCLC, KFMU, WFPK, WYEP... Touring with Hotel Cafe now, Kathleen Edwards later this month - see dates on Page 2 Danielia Cotton “Testify” R&R Indicator & FMQB Most Added! First week: WTMD, WJCU, WCBE, KDBB, KPND, WOCM, KMTN, KTAO... Early: KCUV, WXPK, WXPN, WRSI, KZMV, KSLU, KRVM, WNKU, KUWR, WSGE... Promo tour this month! Jim Bianco “Sing” The first release on Hotel Cafe Records, going for adds now! Already on: KBAC, WNCW, KSLU, WFIT, KAXE, KRVM... Full cd on your desk On tour now as part of the Hotel Cafe tour with Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers and more Sandrine “Let The Love” From her US debut Dark Fades Into The Light (prod by Malcolm Burn) New: WFIT ON: WCBE, KSLU, WSYC... “An intimate blend of melodies that incorporate elements of classic sixties pop with contemporary neo-soul.” - Mother Jones Jakob Dylan “Something Good This Way Comes” R&R Monitored 17*! Indicator 12*! Most Added AGAIN! New: KPRI, KTHX, WCOO, WRNX, WNCS, KPTL ON: KBCO, KTCZ, KINK, WXRV, CIDR, KGSR, WZEW, WCLZ, KXLY, WXPK, WFPK, WTYD, WEHM... Mark Ronson w/Amy Winehouse “Valerie” R&R Indicator Most Added! New: KRSH, WEHM, KOHO, KRVO, WOCM, KPND, KFMU... ON: Sirius, WJCU, KMTN, KNBA, WRSI, KSPN... The new single from Version, from the multi-Grammy winner and Grammy’s Producer Of The Year Dave Barnes “Until You” Paddy Casey “Fear” New: WGWG ON: KTCZ, WRLT, WCOO, KRVB, KRSH, WCNR, New: WVOD, KSMF... ON: KCUV, WXPK, WEHM, WTYD, WBJB, WFIV, WEXT, KSPN, KCLC, KPND, WTMD, WJCU, WFPK, WCBE,... Music Choice, WCBE, KOHO... Meteor Prize-Best Irish ! In stores now! On tour: 4/4 Dallas, 4/6 Austin, 4/8 New Orleans... Jason Collett dates now, KT Tunstall in May Letterman tomorrow! Back Door Slam “It’ll All Come Around” Justin Nozuka “After Tonight” FMQB Tracks 37*! New: KTAO ON: WTTS, KCUV, WCOO, WZEW, WXPK, ON: XM, Acoustic Cafe, WCBE, WJCU, KMTN, WSGE, Music KPND, KRSH, KOZT, WXPK, KPIG, KSPN, WTMD, KLRR, KMMS, WFPK... Choice... VH-1 You Oughta Know! Featured on MTVu Watch them on Kimmel tonight! On tour now, playing Bonnaroo Best New Artist nominee for the Juno Awards (Canadian Grammy)!! B-52’s “Funplex” Landon Pigg “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop” Over 29,000 sold first week! National rank #11! Ellen on Friday R&R Monitored 27*! FMQB Tracks 28*! New: KINK ON: KGSR, KTCZ, R&R Monitored 15*! Indicator 7*! New: WTYD, WSGE... WXRV, KWMT, KXLY, WRLT, WCLZ, KPTL, KRSH, Sirius, WFIV... ON: KBCO, WXRT, KFOG, KMTT, KINK, CIDR, KENZ, KPRI, WXRV... 170K+ paid downloads! Coffee Shop EP on your desk now Coming Up: Will Hoge “Washed By The Water” (Add date 4/14), Alejandro Escovedo “Always A Friend” (Add date 4/21), The Submarines “You, Me & The Bourgeoisie” (Add date 4/21), deSoL “On My Way” (Add date 4/28) Dan Wilson enjoys his Get to know Back Door Slam Before their recent Burlington show, the following Free Life on the road article appeared in the Burlington Free Press. Hotel Cafe tour: “He’s turning 21 on April 13, which means Davy 4/3 Boulder, CO Knowles won’t be old enough to quaff a pint when his band, Back Door Slam, plays March 24 at Higher 4/4 Denver, CO Ground. 4/5 Salt Lake City, UT But he’s old enough to be a god — as in guitar god. The boyish Brit from the Isle of Man is already earning a reputation as the next blues-rock king, drawing Kathleen Edwards tour: comparisons to Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric 4/10 New York, NY Clapton and (as if that’s not enough) the god of all 4/11 Annapolis, MD guitar gods, Jimi Hendrix. Knowles, raised on his sister’s blues CDs and his 4/12 Philadelphia, PA father’s John Mayall records, is also old enough to know 4/14 Alexandria, VA what those names and comparisons mean. In fact, he’s 4/16 Asheville, NC honored. “It’s really, really, really flattering — really crazy, but 4/17 Louisville, KY really flattering,” Knowles, who’s also the throaty 4/18 Birmingham, AL vocalist for Back Door Slam, said in a recent telephone 4/19 Nashville, TN interview. “For someone to have that in their head that it sounds a little like Stevie Ray Vaughan, it’s just a “While a nation rocked its shaggy head to the sound of massive compliment.” grunge-rock in the ’90s, Minneapolis songwriter Dan He doesn’t mind that people say he sounds like this or that instead of stamping his own trademark. “I guess Wilson kept a torch lit for sweetly sung, beautifully melodic that’s how people relate to music — in the nicest sense, pop songs as part of the trio , scoring a top-10 pigeonhole it,” Knowles said. “For them to actually say, hit in 1998 with “Closing Time.” The band’s well-crafted ‘That reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughan’ or ‘That 2001 album was a commercial fizzle, reminds me of Mark Knopfler,’ people actually do that. I and Semisonic went into limbo; though the group is still do that when I go to see a band. I know it’s coming officially together, the members are all off working on their from a nice place.” Still, Knowles knows his next challenge is to establish a own projects. Wilson went on to win a Grammy for co- sound that future guitarists will be compared to. “I’m writing Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready To Make Nice,” and spent pretty conscious of that, of wanting to get my own years working on a solo album, Free Life. Executive- thing,” he said. “I still practice an awful lot. I still look at produced by Rick Rubin and released on his American different genres and try to steal stuff from that.” Recordings label, the album boasts several big-name Back Door Slam, named for a Robert Cray song, was guests including Sheryl Crow, The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, most recently at Higher Ground’s Showcase Lounge in and Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins. But the star of the show late January when the trio played one of its first sold-out shows (Monday’s show, originally scheduled for the here is Wilson’s remarkable instinct for creating gorgeous Lounge, has been moved to the larger Ballroom). “It songs, and his unabashed, obvious joy in doing so. For was just a fantastic night,” Knowles recalled. The band’s anyone worried that songcraft is an endangered species, debut disc, last summer’s “Roll Away,” aptly captures Free Life should ease those fears. A.V. Club Rating: B+” Knowles’ prowess, but he said nothing beats joining his -The Onion AV Club band mates in an intense musical moment on stage. “It’s just the best feeling. There’s just... it’s really hard to describe. There’s no thought process, there’s no Let The Love pour in for Sandrine nothing,” Knowles said. Unable to come up with his “Each strum of the acoustic on this own words, he again tapped into the spirit of Vaughan, referring to the late guitarist’s statement that a great solo bouncy, ’60s-tinged pop track from is one where your toes are curled up, you’re leaning the album Dark Fades Into the Light is back, your eyes are closed and you’re just lost in the like the glow of the sun on your face. moment. “It’s just fantastic,” Knowles said. “If there’s a great Singer Sandrine Daniels cuts response from the crowd you get this big shiver, that shadowy swaths through the warmth adrenaline, that feeling. with her wistful vocals.” “Every three or four nights you find something that really clicks,” he said, “and the rest of the tour you’re - The Boston Globe chasing that.”” For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 4/2/08