RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 7/18/2007 KT Tunstall “Hold On” #1 Mosr Added by a landslide a week early! Full cd Drastic Fantastic in stores September 11! Today Show last week R&R New & Active already! Early: WBOS, WNCS, WXRV, KGSR, KENZ, WRNR, WMMM, KPRI, Sirius... Simple Kid “The Twentysomething” Sampler and full cd on your desk now! Album added early at XM Cafe, KSPN, KSMT, Maine Public Radio “A mind-blowing masterpiece! One of the best records of the year!” - ContactMusic.com Billie Holiday “Spreadin’ Rhythm Around” Back Door Slam “Come Home” The first single from “Billie Holiday - Remixed and Reimagined” R&R Indicator Most Added! See them Friday night in Boulder Edit cd-pro on your desk featuring Lady Bug Mecca from Diggable Planets First week: KOZT, WCBE, KDBB, WOCM, KPND, WTYD, KNBA, WUIN... Full cd w/remixes from Nickodemus, DJ Logic and more in stores 8/7 Early: KTBG, KROK WQNR, KSLU, KZRC On tour now! Jesca Hoop “Summertime” Joss Stone “Tell Me What We’re Gonna Do Now” Matt White “Best Days” R&R Indicator and FMQB Most Added! New: KOHO Already on: WXRV, KRSH, WTMD, ON: KXLY, WDOD, Sirius, WAPS, KDBB, KDEC... First week: KCRW, WTMD, WNRN, KTBG, KLRR, KROK, KPND, KMTN, KTAO, WMWV... New spins at WBOS, KINK, KRVB, WTTS WFPK, KCMP, KROK, World Cafe, WSGE... Video is in Large rotation on VH-1 already! His EP has sold over 40,000 songs on iTunes Full cd Kismet in stores September 18 Album has been certified GOLD! Featured at the end of Shrek 3, full cd soon Catch her in Boulder at the Friday lunch The next run of US tour dates begins August 27 On tour now - see dates on Page 2 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals “Ah Mary” The Kooks “She Moves In Her Own Way” Matt Nathanson “Car Crash” R&R Monitored 16*! Indicator 6*! R&R Monitored Debut 28*! Indicator #18! R&R Monitored Debut 29*! In stores August 14 FMQB Public 9*! In stores August 7 New: KPRI, WCLZ, WUIN, WRSI, KNBA New: KINK, WRLT, WQKL, Acoustic Cafe... Leno 8/2! On tour! New this week: KMMS ON: KFOG, KINK, WXRV, KENZ, KCUV, WMMM, ON: KFOG, KPRI, WBOS, WDOD, KRVB, WCOO... ON: WBOS, KPRI, WTTS, CIDR, WXRV, WZEW... WTTS, KXLY, WXPK, WEHM, WYEP, WCNR... Make sure you get in to Boulder in Three songs available now on iTunes Over 60K scanned! Major online push on now time to see him on Wednesday night! Ryan Shaw “Nobody” ‘Once’ (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) “Falling Slowly” Mark Ronson f. Daniel Merriweather “Stop Me” R&R Indicator #20! FMQB Puiblic #19 Over 60K sold already! New: KGSR, WYSO New: KHUM, WEHM, WRSI, WMNF, WFHB... New: KMMS, KOHO ON: WXRT, KBCO, WBOS, ON: WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, KBAC, WTMD, ON: KCRW, WFUV, WTMD, KCMP, WXPN, WCBE, WMMM, WRNR, WRLT, WEHM, WXPK, WFIV... WMVY, WBJB, WNRN, KSUT, WMWV, WCBE... KOHO, KRSH, WNRN, KMTN... Video on VH-1! Upcoming: XPoNential Music Fest, Lollapalooza, Tonight Show 7/31! See Glen and Marketa on #1 UK sales! Version in US stores now ACL Fest, Montreal Jazz Festival, Bluesfest... Friday in Boulder, movie screening on Saturday Full cd features Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse & more Abra Moore “After All These Years” Mike Farris “Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down” Cary Brothers “Who You Are” Full cd On The Way in stores now! Full cd Salvation in Lights n stores now! New: WSGE Already on: WNCS, WXPK, New: KLCC, WJCU ON: KCUV, KCLC, WNCW, ON: Sirius, KBAC, KROK, WMVY, WUIN, KRSH, KBAC, WBJB, KMTN, KROK, KCLC, WOCM, KNBA, WCBE, KOHO, WEVL, WBJB, KZMV... KMMS, WNCW, WOCM, KDBB, WNRN, KSQY... KSQY, XM Loft, KRVO, KZRC, WJCU... Catch her live: 7/28 Athens, 8/21 WBJB Former Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies frontman On tour! Video coming soon Emerging Artists show, 8/25 New York... This is originally a Sister Rosetta Tharpe track On the iPhone demos in stores worldwide Reviewers find Salvation Learning about Lady Day With the first single from the upcoming Billie Holiday - in Mike Farris’ music Remixed & Reimagined on your desk now, I thought I’d catch you up on some of her history... “Most guys slog it out in a rock band, develop some bad road- associated habits, clean up, find God, and go on to produce - Billie Holiday began singing in Harlem night clubs for the worst music of their careers. Not Mike Farris. The tips while working as a prostitute to survive. scandalously underrated singer and guitarist with the - She was one of the first black women to work with a Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies is resurrected on Salvation in white orchestra and play to a packed Carnegie Hall Lights and the greasy rock-a-roll belter is reborn a sanctified during the period of segregation. soul shouter that could cream the American Idol competition if - She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll he wanted to. Fortunately, Farris has Hall of Fame and received the Grammy Lifetime higher goals. Hooking up with only Achievement Award in addition to receiving a United the finest gospel and spirituals and States Postal Service-sponsored postage stamp in 1994. - Her impact on other artists is undeniable. She has some originals that could have been influenced artists like Janis Joplin, Diana Ross, Nina cut from the same soul-stirring cloth, Simone and in 1988, U2 released ‘Angel of Harlem,’ a Farris mines the deep, humid grooves tribute to her. of New Orleans gospel — a Cosimo - She struggled against racism and sexism her entire Matassa-styled horn section, rippling career. She is now considered one of the most influential piano, gospel choir, buzzing and female vocalist in jazz, pop, and blues. moaning guitars. Fans of ’50s and ’60s gospel (anyone who bought Joel Dorn and Lee Friedlander’s Gospel Music collection, for example), will swoon over what Farris has done Mark Ronson’s “Stop Me” gets here. If he’s unafraid of tackling Sam Cooke on his own turf (“A Change Is Gonna Come”!), maybe it’s because Farris was Discovered and Downloaded feeling this music long before he felt God in his life, and now, well, he’s near unstoppable. Salvation In Lights is nothing short The video for Mark of a homecoming — home sweet home, indeed.” Ronson & Daniel - Barnes & Noble review Merriweather’s cover of the Smiths’ track ‘Stop Me’ has been Catch Matt White on tour now selected as part of 7/19 Pittsburgh, PA MTV’s Discover And 7/20 Philadelphia, PA Download program 7/21 Allentown, PA 7/23 Lancaster, PA for the month of August. This means Big 10 rotation 7/24 Cleveland, OH (20+ per week), on-air and online promos, and 7/26 Madison, WI exclusive live performance and interview footage 7/27 Milwaukee, WI shown throughout the month on MTV, MTV2 and 7/28 Minneapolis, MN MTVu. 7/30 Chicago, IL 7/31 Ann Arbor, MI Mark will also be appearing on the MTV Video 8/1 Columbus, OH 8/3 Alexandria, VA Music Awards as their on-camera DJ throughout the 8/4 Hartford, CT entire broadcast. The show airs on September 9 8/7 Boston, MA from Las Vegas and will be broadcast to 162 8/8 New York, NY countries! Coming up... 7/30: Michael McDermott “The American In Me”... 8/13: Brett Dennen “Darlin’ Do Not Fear”... Have you been to rightarmresource.com? * Click on the iPod to launch a Flash player which streams everything I’m working (bookmark it for the music meeting!) * Link to archived newsletters and the A/V blog featuring content including music videos, epk’s, performance audio & more For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 7/18/07