RIGHT ARM RESOURCE UPDATE JESSE BARNETT [email protected] (508) 238-5654 www.rightarmresource.com www.facebook.com/rightarmresource 2/20/2013 “Snake Road” Mike Doughty “Sunshine” The first single from Forever Endeavour, in stores and going for adds now The second single from The Flip Is Another Honey, going for adds now Added early at WFUV, WNRN, KBAC, WFIV, WBJB, KUNC, WUKY, WHRV Added early at WFIV, WTYD and KHUM Tour dates keep being added NPR All Things Considered piece aired earlier this month US dates in April This song features a sample of John Denver’s “Sunshine” but is not a cover They Might Be Giants “Lost My Mind” Martin Harley “Cardboard King” The first single from Nanobots, in stores 3/5 and going for adds now The second single from Mojo Fix, going for adds now New: KSMT, KUNC New: KMTN Early: WYMS, WBJB, WFIV, KCLC, WHRV On PlayMPE Available for download via All Access and my Dropbox folder Full cd on your desk soon Extensive touring runs March through June Early: WFIV On tour now opening for ZZ Ward and Delta Rae Sons of Fathers “Roots & Vine” John Hiatt “Blues Can’t Even Find Me” BDS Indicator Most Increased! New: KRSH, WTMD, WNRN, KAXE New: KTAO, KFMG, WUSM Already on: KPIG, WNKU, KBAC, ON: KINK, WEXT, KPIG, SiriusXM Loft, KSMT, Music Choice, KMTN, WYCE, WCBE, WJCU, WMWV, WFIV, DMX Adult Alt, WKZE, KDBB... KROK, KNBA, KFMU, KSPN, WCBE, WBJB... Burning Days in stores 4/2 Playing Sunset Sessions The second single from Mystic Pinball Tour dates coming up The Lone Bellow “You Never Need Nobody” Richard Thompson “Good Things Happen To Bad People” FMQB Public Debut 46*! New: WEHM ON: WXRT, WXPK, WRLT, WZEW, BDS Indicator 25*! FMQB Public 4*! Electric in stores now WNCS, WFUV, WXPN, KCSN, KRSH, WCOO, WFPK, WCNR, WDST, New: KAXE ON: WXPN, WFUV, KUTX, SiriusXM Loft, KRSH, KPIG, WDST, WYEP, WTYD, KDHX... At SXSW & Non-Comm Paste review: 9.4/10 WNKU, WEXT, WKZE, WYEP... Touring with & Rodney Crowell Boy “Little Numbers” Night Beds “Ramona” FMQB Tracks 50*! Public 33*! New: WYEP, WSGE Video 7.5+ million views BDS Indicator 23*! FMQB Public 12*! Country Sleep in stores now ON: KBCO, WXPK, SiriusXM Spectrum, KCMP, WXPN, KCSN, WYMS, KCRW, New: WEHM, KCLC ON: SiriusXM Spectrum & Loft, KRSH, WZEW, WFUV, WEXT, KHUM, WNRN, WCBE, KSMT, KTBG... In stores Tuesday March US tour KCSN, KUTX, KXT, KEXP, KTBG, WYEP, WTMD... Just played on Fallon Walk The Moon “Tightrope” Robert Cray Band “A Memo” BDS Monitored Debut 29*! Indicator 19*! Just finished their sold out tour FMQB Tracks Debut 46*! New: WYEP, WVOD, Music Choice ON: KRSH, WZEW, New: WTTS ON: KBCO, KFOG, KTCZ, WXRV, WXPK, KPRI, WRLT, WCLZ, KPND, WCNR, WEXT, WKZE, WFIV, KPIG, KFMU, KSPN, WTMD, KMTN, WVMP... WQKL, WNCS, KTHX, WCOO, KCMP, WLCE, KTAO... Near top 10 at Alt US tour dates in April: NYC, Westhampton NY, Virginia Beach VA... Current Swell “Too Cold” Matisyahu “Crossroads” FMQB Public #29! New: WVOD ON: KINK, WCBE, WBJB, WJCU, KSMT, The first single from Spark Seeker: Acoustic Sessions, in stores now! KNBA, KMTN, KFMU, KSPN, WNRN, WNCW, KOHO, KCLC, WYCE, KUNC... New: KSUT, KCLC ON: WVOD, KLRR, WNKU, WYEP, WOCM, KMTN, KTAO, Playing SXSW and more US dates soon Long Time Ago in stores now KFMU, KSPN, WCBE, KXCI, WFIV, WYCE... Acoustic tour going on now Alpha Rev “Sing Loud” The Mavericks “Come Unto Me” BDS 20*! Indicator 5*!! New: WNCS Performing at Sunset Sessions FMQB Public Debut 28*! New: WUKY, WPR, WFIT... ON: WFUV, KCSN, KRSH, “I have never seen a Facebook reaction to a song like this in WEHM, WTMD, KUTX, WEXT, WDST, WNKU, KBAC, WYEP... In stores Tuesday the past year at WXRV.. insane!” - Matt Phipps/WXRV-Boston “Glossy, lush, loud and proud: maybe the best conjunto-rock album ever.” - Q Mag Max Gomez “Run From You” Charlie Mars “How I Roll” FMQB Public 31*! ON: WXRV, KRSH, KTHX, KCSN, WZEW, KPIG, WVMP, BDS New & Active - pushing top 30! ON: KGSR, WRNR, WXPK, WCLZ, KBAC, WEXT, WFIV, WCBE, WNKU... Just finished dates with Shawn Mullins KPND, KTHX, WCOO, WWCT, WEHM, WCNR... Over 10K singles sold On tour for the rest of Feb with Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale Featured on the Weeds Season 8 soundtrack More tour dates this month Marie Miller “You’re Not Alone” ZZ Ward “Put The Gun Down” EP on your desk At Sunset Sessions Over 100K free downloads at Amazon BDS Monitored 8*!! New at KINK ON: KBCO, KFOG, KTCZ, ON: WXRV, WZEW, KCSN, WCOO, WWCT, Music Choice, WJCU, WCBE, Sirius, KPRI, WMMM, WNCS, KRVB, WRNR, WRLT, WXPK, WCLZ... KMTN, WFIV, WBJB, WYSO, MSPR, WERU... Amazon’s Top 20 Artists To Watch Tour dates with Delta Rae and Martin Harley going on now Alpha Rev is revving up for an extensive tour schedule 3/20 Waco, TX 4/17 Knoxville, TN 3/21 College Station, TX 4/18 Greenville, SC 3/22 Austin, TX 4/19 Atlanta, GA 3/23 Dallas, TX 4/20 Raleigh, NC 3/24 Charleston, SC 4/23 Charlottesville, VA 3/26 Lawrence, KS 4/24 Washington, DC 3/27 Fayetteville, AR 4/25 New York, NY 3/28 Fayetteville, AR 4/26 Boston, MA 3/29 Norman, OK 5/1 Grand Rapids, MI 4/3 Oxford, MS 5/2 Madison, WI 4/4 Auburn, AL 5/3 Minneapolis, MN 4/5 Charleston, SC 5/4 Chicago, IL 4/6 Charlotte, NC 5/7 Denver, CO 4/10 Birmingham, AL 5/9 Tulsa, OK 4/11 Birmingham, AL 5/10 St. Louis, MO 4/12 Nashville, TN 5/11 Columbia, MO Spinner sits down with Ron Sexsmith to discuss Forever Endeavour In 2011, Ron Sexsmith raised more than a few eyebrows with Long Player Late Bloomer, a bombastic -produced pop album that put a critical darling into commercial consciousness. Nominated for both the and a Juno, it was a breakthrough album for Sexsmith. The singer/songwriter could have played it safe and gone the same route with the follow-up but, when it came to recording the songs that make up his 13th studio album, Forever Endeavour, Sexsmith weighed his options. “I had the songs, but I didn’t know where to go with them,” he tells Spinner. “I thought about working with Bob, but I didn’t think these songs could withstand that kind of production.” In the summer of 2011, Sexsmith ran into in Los Angeles. Froom had produced Sexsmith’s first three studio albums and the two got to talking about working together again. Froom suggested string and woodwind arrangements. “That interested me,” he says. “I thought it might give it the vibe of an old singer/songwriter album, like what Neil Diamond would have done.” This particular collection of songs certainly benefited from a lighter hand. Forever Endeav- our is quietly affecting -- and it’s strikingly more downbeat than its predecessor. Sexsmith says the album’s melancholia was dictated by the songs. “It’s always about the songs -- you don’t get much say in the matter,” he laughs. “It’s what- ever you’re going through.” For Sexsmith, that included a health scare. In the summer of 2011, he detected a lump in his throat. A series of tests followed and waiting to hear the results put him in a reflective mood. “It put me in a fog,” he corrects with a laugh. “I wasn’t panicking, but I was thinking about my options and it was uncertain. Was I going to be spending next year battling something? To be honest, I don’t think I even told Mitchell. When I got the results, everything was fine.” Still, mortality was top of mind. “As you get older and more of these things happen, you realize that it’s always coming for us and that one day the news won’t be good news,” he says. “It’s funny -- I had already snuck in some songs about death.” Indeed, Ron gets personal on Forever Endeavour. “Nowhere to Go,” for one example, deals with a low professional period in which it looked like Long Player Late Bloomer wouldn’t get released. “When we’d finished Long Player Late Bloomer we’d had so much rejection, I felt like I couldn’t do anything right,” he says. “First I wasn’t commercial enough, then I was too commercial.” Others are lighter. “Me, Myself and Wine” is an old-school country tune about settling in with a good album and a good vintage. It’s a love letter to the record. “My fans, they’re like me. They like albums and they read the liner notes. You hear people say no one cares about albums, but people are buying them. When I think of my favorite albums, it’s such a personal thing. You don’t want to be talking over it; you want to sit down a take it in. It’s like a book or a movie.” As far as albums go, Sexsmith is excited about Forever Endeavour. As it turns out, it’s been a long time coming. “Mitchell and I actually tried to make a record like this in 1999 with Whereabouts and I thought that album was a total disaster,” he says. “It was overstuffed and I didn’t sing as well. With this one, I feel like we finally made the album we set out to make. I think it’s one of those albums that when I’m looking back at the end of the line, I’ll remember it as one of the good ones.” - Spinner.com Coming soon: 3/4: Beth Hart “Bang Bang Boom Boom,” The Whigs “Staying Alive”... 3/11: “Invisible” RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY UPDATE - 2/20/13