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RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 8/31/2011 Blind Pilot The Duke & The King “We Are The Tide” “Shaky” The title track from their new album, going for adds now From their self-titled US release, in stores now New: KBAC, WYCE, KHUM, KTBG, WCBE, KSLU, KXCI New this week: WFIV, WNCW, KNBA, WCBE, KAXE Early: KEXP, KDHX, KRCL, MPR In stores 9/13 Early: KSMT & KSLU Full album on your desk “We Are The Tide is a treasure of a record... its TD&TK was formed in NY by Simone Felice, woozy indie-pop is vibrant and intoxicating.” - Denver Post formerly of The Felice Brothers Their previous two records Extensive national tour starts 9/10 NPR First Listen online now have been released in the UK to enthusiastic critical acclaim Their breakout debut album sold over 50,000 copies UNCUT: 4 stars MOJO: 4 stars UK Mail on Sunday: 5 stars Mike Doughty “Na Na Nothing” BDS Indicator Debut 21*! FMQB Public 21*! New: WFPK, KLRR, WMWV, KRCC ON: WXRV, KPND, KCMP, WFUV, WYEP, WCNR, WERS, XM Loft, WDST, WYCE, WJCU, KSPN, KFMU, KMMS, KMTN, WAPS, KTAO, KSKI, WNKU, WWCT, DMX, WEXT, KOHO, KTBG, WFIV, WVMP... Yes And Also Yes in stores now! Tour in Oct/Nov “A top rate album. Easy to pick up, hard to put down.” - Stereo Subversion Jackson Browne “You Know The Night” From the album Note Of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie New: Acoustic Cafe, WUSM, KAXE, KUWR Already ON: WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, XM Loft, KOZT, WFIV, WVMP, WKZE WEXT, KFMU, KSPN, KPIG, WNCW... In stores 9/27 Killer lineup: Madeleine Peyroux, Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Ani DiFranco, Nellie McKay, Chris Whitley & more The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) “Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine” Ben Harper “Don’t Give Up On Me Now” Video online now, see our site! World Wide Rebel Songs in stores The second single from Give Till It’s Gone New: KMMS, WMVY, WERS, WUSM New: WNCW, WERS, KROK, KRCC... ON: KMTT, WMMM, KCMP, KBAC, ON: WCOO, KRSH, KMTN, DMX, KTBG, WEXT, WNKU, WFIV, KNBA, WMWV, KFMU, KSPN, KSMT, WFIV, KVSF... US tour dates through September KDBB, KROK, KYSL, KLRR, WOCM, KPIG, KSPN, KFMU... On tour now! The Kooks “Junk Of The Heart” Chadwick Stokes “Coffee And Wine” BDS Monitored 20*! Indicator 5*! New: KGSR, WCNR, KRVO, KRVM From Dispatch and State Radio Features Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars ON: WXRT, KFOG, KMTT, WXRV, KINK, WTTS, Sirius, WXPK, WMMM, Tour in September New: WYCE, KRVM ON: WCBE, KROK, WFIV, WQKL, WRNX, KRVB... US tour in Nov/Dec In stores September 13 KSPN, KSMT, KFMU, WUIN, WOCM, WUMB, KFMG, KSLU, WFHB... Joss Stone “Somehow” John Hiatt “Damn This Town” BDS Indicator #20! FMQB Public 24*! New: WGWG In stores now BDS Indicator 13*! FMQB Public 10*! New: KSKI ON: KINK, WXRV, WCOO, ON: WXPN, WEHM, Music Choice, WYEP, KLRR, WBJB, KCLC, WMVY, WYMS, KNBA, WNWV, KPND, WXPN, WFUV, KXT, KVSF, Music Choice,, DMX, KCSN, WUIN... WDST, KMMS WNKU, KDBB, WYCE, WOCM... Killer press all over the place Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns in stores now! On tour thru October Burlap To Cashmere “Build A Wall” Bob Schneider “Honeypot” FMQB Public 44*! Great performance in Boulder! New: KCLC BDS New & Active! FMQB Tracks 36*! New: WCLZ, WRNX, KCSN... ON: WXPK, KCSN, WFPK, WJCU, KSMT, WBJB, WNCW, WVMP, KMTN, KFMU, ON: KGSR, WNWV, KTHX, WZEW, WCOO, KRSH, KPND, KXT, WCNR, DMX, KSPN, DMX, WYCE, WCBE, Acoustic Cafe, KXCI... Self titled album in stores now Music Choice, KMTN, KNBA, KDBB, WMVY, WTMD... Catch him on tour now Old 97’s “Perfume” Foo Fighters “Walk” BDS Indicator #8! FMQB Public #13! New: WCNR ON: KGSR, DMX, Already #1 at Modern Rock!! BDS New & Active! Indicator 15*! KCMP, WXPN, WFUV, KCSN, WEHM, WFPK, KUT, SiriusXM Loft, WDST, New: KLRR, KSLU ON: WXRT, Dave-FM, WNWV, WXPK, WCOO, WNCS, WCNR, WYEP, KEXP, KSPN, KFMU... The Grand Theatre Volume 2 in stores now KRVO, KYSL, KCLC, KVSF, WVOD, WNRN, KSMT, KROK... Sept arena tour Upcoming... 9/19: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “If I Had A Gun,” Julian Velard “Love Again For The First Time,” Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa “Well, Well,” ... 10/11: Graffiti6 “Free” Rob Wasserman discusses Jackson Browne, Note Of Hope, and the intimidation factor of recording a 14-minute song Q: What’s the story behind the Jackson Browne track? It’s 14 minutes long. Was he intimidated by all that material? A: No, not at all. He was the opposite of intimidated. He embraced it. I found him in a show I was playing in LA, I was actually performing with Rickie Lee Jones a couple years ago and he came up to me and said hi and told me he loved my bass play- ing and all that. And I was in the process of getting people to do the record and I invited him right then. And we showed him some words. He chose the words that were around 30 pages long. And I don’t think he really realized what it might mean to do a song that was that long. Nora told him he could edit if he wanted, but he didn’t really want to edit much. He loved the words so much and the story, he didn’t want to chop it down or shorten it much. We did do a four minute thing for radio so there’s a chance someone may hear the song outside the record. He never wanted to edit the song for the record, and you know it’s 25% of the record–15 minutes long. But we both love the tune and somehow we made up the music and the melody together on our first day jamming in the studio. There’s a photograph, I think it’s in the record with a couple music stands with all the words taped over them–a massive amount of words, and he really got into it. To this day he says that when he plays the song for his friends, they sit there and after ten minutes they’re still sitting there and they’re into it. But at the end they’re wondering if they’ve really been listening to music for a whole day. They’re surprised at how intense and long it is. Even though it is long, it doesn’t really feel long when you get into it, it really grabs you. It could have been a spoken word piece because there were so many words, but to his credit, he wanted to sing it, so he turned it into a song.” - Reprinted from American Songwriter, 8/25/11 For the full article, head to: http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/08/rob-wasserman-talks-woody-guthrie-note-of-hope/ John Hiatt continues his long history Let AllMusic fill you in on the sounds of critical praise with his Dirty Jeans and story of The Duke & The King “Hiatt’s songs have characteristically been about more “Although the Duke & the King is an American band hail- than what’s on the surface, which is what has earned ing from the Catskills Mountains, this self-titled disc is their first him wide respect over the last four decades among crit- domestic release, a compilation culled from the contents of two ics, peers, and other afcionados…” - Los Angeles Times previous albums released in Europe. That a U.S. group can only get a record out in the U.S. through the American subsidiary “Hiatt remains at the top of of a British label (Silva Screen’s newly formed So imprint) may his game.” - AP be explained, at least somewhat, by the music. Former Felice Brothers member Simone Felice, the leader of the Duke & the “…John Hiatt’s 20th album King (which also features Bobby Burke, Nowell Haskins, and shows him still cranking out Simi Stone) references Ronald Reagan and MTV on the auto- quality roots music…” biographical “Union Street,” positioning himself as a child of the ‘80s. But in musical terms, he and his bandmates seem much - Boston Globe older. Specifically, their style is closely evocative of some of the rural country/folk/rock of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s; think the “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Band’s first three albums, Van Morrison’s “Caledonia Soul” tril- Hymns shows Hiatt’s muse to ogy of Moondance, Tupelo Honey, and His Band and the Street be as sharp as ever.” - Philadelphia Inquirer Choir, and Neil Young’s solo discography up to Harvest. In musi- cal terms, then, this is a record that should have come out some “John Hiatt’s music has become as comfortable as an time between 1968 and 1972. Felice, who turns lead vocals old pair of jeans, and like those work pants, he’s still over occasionally to the soulful Burke and the Sam Cooke-like right for the job.” - PopMatters Haskins, even evinces much of the melancholia of the ‘60s hangover era of the first Nixon administration, when anti-war “…John Hiatt keeps delivering the goods…” - Detroit activists and drug-addled hippies began to realize that Wood- Free Press stock wasn’t really a harbinger of countercultural hegemony. Felice is bedeviled by an unspecified sadness and longing, and “…Hiatt has been Mr. Reliable, and this convincing new that only adds to the resonance of well-constructed songs that recording only adds to his legacy.” - The Republican will appeal to triple-A radio in the U.S., now that his band finally has gotten a purchase on its homeground. Rating: 4 stars” 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 - 8/31/11