RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 11/21/2018 Greta Van Fleet “You’re The One” The new single from Anthem Of The Peaceful Army, out now Most Added early including KINK, KCMP, WRLT, WXPK, KPND, KVNA, WPYA, KTBG, KVNV... Sales debuts: #1 Billboard Top 200 , #1 Rock album, #1 Rock Consumption NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle shows before the end of the year Another extensive US tour kicks off in May Adrian Quesada w/Various Artists - Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul The new Nacional Records release featuring the single “One Woman Man” with Aaron Frazer and David Hidalgo (of Los Lobos) New: WUMB, KRCC, KUWR, KHUM ON: KUTX, WTMD, KJAC, WFIV, WYCE, WBJB, WCBE Features Texas legend Ruben Ramos, Los Lobos members David Hidalgo & Steve Berlin, guitarist , Kam Franklin of the Suffers, Johnny Hernandez, and many more Jungle “Smile” The new single from For Ever Massive visibility via a national Uber TV spot (5+ million views for the COMMERCIAL on YouTube) New: KSMF, WERU ON: WXCT, WYEP, WNRN, WFIV, KMMS, KLRR, WYCE... Near 2MM streams “’Smile’ kicks things off with a tribalistic beat that drives the song into a volcanic eruption of vocals. It’s an instant highlight -- one of the best soul album openers...” - Hot Press March US tour Chris Cornell “When Bad Does Good” One of two unreleased recordings from the upcoming album Chris Cornell, celebrating his life’s work, out now New: KLRR ON: WXRT, WFPK, WXCT, Music Choice, KYMK, WCOO, KVNA, WCNR, KRML, KMMS, WBJB, WVOD, WFIV... Lyric video online There is also a four-cd box set, Chris Cornell: An Artist’s Legacy, out as well with 17 previously unreleased tracks Sister Sparrow “Gold” The title track from Gold, out now Most Added! New: WXPN, KVNA, WAPS, KPND, KRSH, WZEW, WCBE, WUIN... ON: WRLT, Music Choice, WYEP, WDST, WEXT, WYCE, KMMS, KSUT, WKZE, WMVY, KROK, WEVL, WFIV, KNBA, KHUM... On tour now “Arlene Kincheloe has one of the biggest voices in the business. Prepare to be blown away.” - Baltimore Sun morgxn “home” (w/Walk The Moon) From his album Vital, out now Mediabase Alternative 27*! New: KGSR, WRLT, WWCT, WPYA ON: KRVB, WMMM, KINK, KYMK, WAPS, WXCT, KPND, WZEW, WCNR, KLRR, WOCM, WFIV, KCLC, WVOD... Shazam and streams are jumping every week! Multiple promo usage on ESPN, Fox Sports, HBO, USA Network, Showtime... Festivals: Lollapalooza, Life Is Beautiful, Laurelive, Firefly... Bernhoft “Lookalike” From the new album Humanoid, out now ON: KJAC, WDST, WFIV, WOCM, WCBE, KMMS, KSMF, MSPR, KUWR, KVNF... Bernhoft’s last full-length release, 2014’s Islander, received a Grammy nomination for Best R&B album US dates in December: 12/5 Houston, 12/7 , 12/8 Austin, 12/9 El Paso, 12/11 Phoenix, 12/12 San Diego, 12/13 LA... Eric Bibb “We Don’t Care” (w/Habib Koite) From Global Griot (pronounced GREE-yo), out now FMQB Most Added! New: KJAC, WCBE, KHUM, WKZE, WUTC, WUSM, WYSO ON: KPND, KOZT, KMMS, WNCW, KSMF, WEXT, WFIV, KSUT, WUKY, WYCE, KNBA... “‘Global Griot’ - two words that describe many of my friends and myself, as well... This album features brothers and sisters from around the globe - serving the listener a tasty gumbo.” - Bibb Great reviews! “Good On You Son” The first single from , out now BDS Indicator #17, FMQB Tracks #24, Public 9*! New: WTMD, Acoustic Cafe, WSGE, WFHB ON: WXRT, Music Choice, WXPN, KCSN, KTHX, WFPK, KTBG, KPND, WDST, WCOO, XM Loft, WAPS, KJAC, KVNA, WNRN, WUIN, KYSL, WBZS, KDRP... Produced by Knopfler and (, ) US dates next August & September KT Tunstall “The River” From WAX, out now Mediabase 26*, BDS Monitored 23*, Indicator #21, FMQB Tracks #17, Public #26! New: WLKR, KUMT, WOXL ON: WXRT, WRLT, KINK, WXRV, WMMM, WRNR, KRVB, WXPN, KCSN, KTBG, WCOO, WNCS, WXPK, WPYA, WFPK, Music Choice, WTMD, WYEP, WYMS... WAX is her 6th album and is entirely self/co-written and produced by Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand On tour now John Butler Trio “Tell Me Why” The first single from HOME, out now Mediabase 39*, BDS Monitored #37, Indicator 15*, FMQB Public 32*! New: KGSR ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, WRLT, Music Choice, WMMM, WCLZ, WXPK, WTMD, KJAC, KTBG, KVNA, WPYA, KPND, KVNV, KTHX... On tour now “A “genuine creative leap,” with flourishes of electronic and hip-hop production and another dive into his deep well of folk and .” - Billboard II “Everything You Need” (feat. ) The first single from Shades, out now FMQB Public #44! New: Music Choice ON: WRLT, WTMD, KJAC, KPND, KRSH, KVWF, WERS, WDST, WAPS, WZEW, KOZT, WFIV, WMWV, KNBA, WBJB, WEXT, WMVY, WYCE, WCBE, WNCW, KXCI... Catch him on tour now Confirmed press and appearances: PBS Front & Center, World Cafe, , Relix, American Songwiter... Ron Gallo “Do You Love Your Company?” From Stardust Birthday Party, out now New: WFIV Already on WRLT, WXPN, KJAC, WYMS, KUTX, WFHB, KRCC, WYCE, WNRN, Open Air... “He’s traded in the anger and frustration of his previous records for a wide-eyed mysticism rooted in self-reflection” - Paste “That’s what this album is about, it’s me dancing while destroying the person I thought I was, and hopefully forever.” - Ron Gallo Jeremy Loops “Gold” The first single from Critical As Water, out now Jeremy is from South Africa and just toured the US with Milky Chance ON: KWVF, WCBE, WYCE, KCLC, WOCM, WFIV, WBSD, MSPR, KUWR, KAXE, WERU “It’s really a song of hope that if you continue to work at that which your heart desires with an honest and open attitude, one day eventually those desires will be realised.” - Jeremy Barns Courtney “99” The first single from his upcoming album Mediabase 24*, BDS Monitored 20*, Indicator 14*, FMQB Public 43*! Mediabase Alt 18* ON: Sirius Spectrum, KGSR, WTTS, WRLT, CIDR, WRNR, KINK, WPYA, KTHX, KVNV, Music Choice, WXPK, KPND, WAPS, KXT, KVNA... Recently wrapped up tour dates with The Wombats Barns has already surpassed a quarter of a billion cumulative streams globally “Loading Zones” From Bottle It In, out now Mediabase 8*, BDS Monitored 4*, Indicator 6*, FMQB Public 1*!!! New: KGSR, WEXT, WUTC ON: SiriusXM Spectrum, WXRT, KCMP, WRLT, KINK, KRVB, WMMM, WXPN, WQKL, WFPK, WFUV, KCSN, KXT, WCLZ, WRSI, WNCS, WXPK, WPYA, WEHM, WYMS, KTBG, KUTX, Music Choice, WTMD... US tour dates this fall Fantastic video online now His 7th solo album, the first since 2015 Caroline Rose “Jeannie Becomes A Mom” The second single from Loner, out now ON: Music Choice, WXPN, WRLT, WFUV, WPYA, WYMS, WNCS, WAPS, WTMD, KTBG, WDST, KVNA, KRML, KCLC... “One of the most compulsively listenable rock records of the year” - SF Weekly Just toured with Rainbow Kitten Surprise and wrapped up a run of headlining dates Fantastic press all year long Fruition “Baby Let’s Go” The first single from their new EP Fire, out now New: WNRN ON: KINK, KXT, KTBG, KVNV, KRSH, KMMS, KCLC, KVNA, WPYA, WAPS, WTMD, KJAC, KROK, WUIN... Multiple Spotify playlists On tour now More dates announced for January: 1/3 Kansas City, 1/4 St. Louis, 1/5 Nashville, 1/8 Charlotte, 1/9 Raleigh, 1/10 Charleston, 1/11 Asheville, 1/12 Atlanta... AllMusic tells all about KT Tunstall’s WAX album “On this second installment of a proposed “soul, body, and mind” trilogy kicked off with 2016’s KIN, singer/songwriter KT Tunstall continues her 2010s rebirth, focusing on the physical and embracing the core of humanness with all its flaws and beauty. While the healing KIN marked the restoration of Tunstall’s soul after the emotionally exhausting Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon, WAX awakens her body as she reclaims her sense of self, fighting to live life “with no negative emotion” while wondering “if it’s unreasonable to feel.” WAX harks back to her first three with their catchy hooks and raw, emotional punch. Cleans- ing single “The River” sparkles with life, an empowering rallying cry, while the confessional “Dark Side of Me” and the smoky rocker “The Healer” recall the most electrifying moments of . Aside from a brief dip into IE/ CM contemplation on the Fleetwood Mac-ish “Poison in Your Cup,” WAX is full of vigor, pulsing with a visceral charge on the strutting “Little Red Thread” and the infectious singalong “In This Body.” Producer Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand) injects subtle but inspired touches to the effort, like adding synth to both the driving “Human Being” and highlight moment “The Mountain,” a slinky, intergalactic exploration that sounds unlike anything Tunstall has ever done. These effects add brightness and texture to her typically impeccable songcraft, resulting in a reinvigorated triumph for an artist who consid- ered leaving music behind just years prior to WAX’s release. Here, Tunstall has rekindled the fire with one of her tightest and most inspirational records to date.” - AllMusic The Austin Chronicle shines a spotlight on Doyle Bramhall II “Doyle Bramhall II isn’t just a blues musician anymore. While the genre veils itself in sepia tones, Shades, like 2016’s exemplary Rich Man – Bramhall’s solo album reboot after a 16-year absence – takes on new life. For decades, blues predetermined the Texan’s future, but now it simply informs an entirely new whole. Make no mistake: The remains the Arc Angel’s main form of expression, but Shades sounds seamlessly like an obsessing perfectionist reinventing and redefining their longstanding relation- ship with album-oriented blues. The split-second hi-hat splash and bass drum oscillation on album opener “Love and Pain,” and the gelatinous flange-tremolo guitar part on “The Night” pop as tiny but true details of care and nuance – carved into the song’s melodic chassis with X-Acto knives. Compared to the subtle African accents of Rich Man, Bramhall’s debut for Netherlands imprint Provogue renders maximalist ascension: Fuzz becomes as textured as sandpaper on the Greyhounds-assisted “Live Forever,” a torrential Hendrix-taming blurs into an elegant string sweep on “London to Tokyo,” and Rubber Soul folk and Sgt. Pepper’s psych commingle in “Consciousness.” Meanwhile, broader genre sweeps include Eric Clapton on the Philly soul-assisted “Everything You Need” and the “Live and Let Die”-tinged brass maelstrom of “Parvanah,” which thrusts off the proverbial cliff with each note breaking like a sonic boom. Beneath the musical matte lies a brooding yarn about solitude and getting older. Gentle keys cradle DBII’s weary manifesto about “someone lost, something gained” through age in “Break Apart to Mend.” And his looming 50th is juxtaposed on “Live Forever” and a closing cover of ’s “Going Going Gone,” the former wrapped in triumphant zeal and the latter injected with impotent rage. With Shades, Doyle Bramhall II is at his most open and vulnerable.” - Austin Chronicle, 10/26/18 NPR Music has flattering things to say about Mark Knopfler “In 1932, Chicago artist and arts patron Narcissa Niblack Thorne began an unusual and extraordinary project: designing intricately decorated, historically accurate rooms in minia- ture. Married to James Ward Thorne, heir to a Chicago department-store fortune, she used some of her substantial means to employ out-of-work artisans who could build everything from wee rococo French end tables to minuscule Shaker cabinetry. Their ornate detail is breathtaking — they’re even lit in a way that appears to mimic clear mid-morning sun. All these rooms are missing, it seems, are the people who live there. With Down the Road Wherever, his tenth solo record, former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler deploys many of the same charms as Thorne’s renowned curios. While it’s hardly a concept record, Knopfler builds his own miniature village and the details with which he colors his cast make it easy to imagine his many characters living among each other. Knopfler begins with “Trapper Man,” a number about a skilled trapper who makes a butcher’s block out of a trader’s desk that feels more like a subtle allegory for the dirty work that gets done in order for the finer things in life to exist. Knopfler’s characters feel neither autobiographical nor entirely fictional, thanks in large part to his apparent knack for understanding the human condition. It’s easy to imagine the narra- tor of “My Bacon Roll” as a longtime barfly who’s rather chatty, if possibly a bit lonely, too. As with the gentleman protago- nists “going for the major comeback” in wingtip shoes and Stetson hats on “Back on the Dance Floor,” some of the figures on Down the Road Wherever seem to want a return to some long-gone glory days, but Knopfler only sketches out the what of their wistful desires, not their why. Knopfler wraps his detailed narratives in tastefully arranged instrumentation, which ranges from the twangy “Just a Boy Away from Home,” to the slow-burning drift of “Slow Learner,” to dance-friendly shuffles on “Good On You Son” and “Heavy Up” (on “Nobody Does That,” Knopfler even toys a bit with funk). Light touches of fiddle and allude to Knopfler’s roots in the British Isles, while horns add flares of soul. Even Knopfler’s guitar solos feel politely reserved. Though he’s a celebrated guitarist several times over, Knopfler treats his solos as equally important elements in carrying a song to its con- clusion rather than opportunities for flashy grandstanding. There’s a grandfatherly charm throughout the record, both in the comfortable arrangements and Knopfler’s lyrical yarns. Everything about Down the Road Wherever feels warm and inviting; if each song is a miniature room, their display is in a cozy den that also boasts a roaring fire, capacious armchairs, heirloom quilts, and a smell like pipe tobacco and old books. But Knopfler leaves room for the bittersweet, as on the ambling “Drover’s Road” and “Floating Away.” At times, Knopfler tells bits of his own story, as on “One Song at a Time,” where he sings about his own life’s journey (and wryly notes that he’s done watching “poor old fakers / Trying to dance in my old shoes”). Down the Road Wherever’s final track, “Matchstick Man,” breaks step from the rest of the record, in both its length (it’s the LP’s shortest track by more than a minute) and its stripped-down execution. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, Knopfler sings of a lone traveling musician, who, in the song’s final lines, is but a “speck upon these vast and silent plains of snow.” Knopfler’s closing maneuver completes the album with a cinematic flourish, one that makes a surprisingly clean finish for such a richly detailed record.” - NPR Music, 11/15/18 Coming Up... 1/7: Sean McConnell “Here We Go” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 11/21/2018