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Grass Punks a Crossbill Records Release January 21, 2014 : Lp/Cd/Mp3 JANUARY NEW RELEASE GUIDE STREET DATE: January 21, 2014 5% DISCOUNT on New Release Items through Jan 28 TOM BROSSEAU GRASS PUNKS A CROSSBILL RECORDS RELEASE JANUARY 21, 2014 : LP/CD/MP3 www.tombrosseau.com “Grass Punks brought to my mind a smoldering stick, used to light a wick or ward off peskiness. Now it stands for something greater, a sort of heading for everything I believe in when it comes to my brand of folk music and DIY recording.” - Tom Brosseau “Brosseau's gorgeous voice and folk guitar is the analog reprisal to our attachment to modern luxuries. ” - NPR All Songs Considered "Ruggedly durable alt.folk blessed with moments of everyday poetry." -The List Enough time goes by and you can make sense of anything. Tom Brosseau is a folksinger and songwriter from North Dakota. His grandmother Lillian Uglem taught him the acoustic guitar while he was in grade school. He has toured Japan, Canada, Portugal, Iceland, Australia; performed in bars, backyards, grand halls, subways, theaters, old folks homes; exchanged songs and poetry with many talented folks, including Susan Orlean, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Patrick Marber, Bonnie Raitt and the late Sam Hinton. Since 2010, Brosseau has performed with Becky Stark and John C. Reilly in John Reilly & Friends, a band devoted to the current American folk music revival, whose members also include Dan Bern, Willie Watson, Greg Leisz, Jerry Roe and Sebastian Steinberg. In 2011, Reilly and Brosseau recorded a 7” vinyl single entitled John & Tom that was produced by Jack White for Third Man Records. Burnside Distribution Corp, 6635 N. Baltimore Ave, Suite 285, Portland, OR, 97203 phone (503) 231-0876 / fax (503) 231-0420 / www.bdcdistribution.com BDC New Releases Jan 2014 (503) 231-0876 / www.bdcdistribution.com 2 Jan 2014 Welcome!BDC Welcome! New Releases have the mirror image of Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound. Paul has been making music for some forty odd years now and is highly regarded by old friends Nick Lowe, Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt and others fusing Blues, When your label is owned by Big Jay McNeeley (a true living legend) and your record is produced by Grammy Roots, and Americana into a unique sound that is all his own. winner Pete Anderson (who knows a few things about music), you must have something special. Rockin’ Raffi has something most 12 year olds do not---the ability to bring back the 50s with his mastery of 88 keys. Krista Detor returns with Flat Earth Diary, her first in four years. Rolling Stone says “a small miracle ... He rocks and he rolls as if he had been doing this for decades. Check this young cat out. she would be good on every stage in the world.” For her fans, she’s also written a companion book on the creation of this new album. Equally at home in the US and in Europe; on radio, tv or stage. 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