STREET DATE: MAY 19, 2015 MAY NEW RELEASE GUIDE NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 ( 2) NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 Welcome!! Welcome!! Kids rule dood! Three new titles this month to add to the burnside Kindie Rock assortment. Parents Choice Award winner The Harmonica Look for brand new releases from Barna Howard who is gaining Pocket returns with Sundrops and we have two from Minneapolis’ acclaim throughout the US, UK and Europe as well as Two Sheds from Bunny Clogs. Kids are happy when they experience music like this--- Crossbill Records. Also check out the latest from the legendary Augie and parents too! Meyers putting a Tex-Mex spin on songs that span his six decade career. And warch out for Winnepeg’s award winning Romi Mayes The UKs Thea Gilmore returns with a 20 track CD (25 tracks on double whose Canadiana/Americana album rocks hard. LP) which is both a reflection on her career, some new re-recorded versions of her best known songs and is laden with guests from Mandolins Unite!! Two of the world’s pre-eminent mandolinists, Mike different genre’s . From Joan as Policewoman to Joan Baez to John Marshall and Caterina Lictenberg return with their interpretations of Cooper Clarke to The Waterboys to King Creosote to Billy Bragg, it all pieces from Johann Sebastian Bach. Speaking of Mike Marshall, he is all works! over the brilliant Starlight Highway album by Corinne West along with the brilliant Kelly Joe Phelps and former Bump Band/Beach Boy/Flame Is Toronto the home of the surf guitar? Well, no---but Six Shooter offers drummer Ricky Fataar. us the C&C Surf Factory and their killer instrumental Garage City. And we’re glad to add a few more catalogue titles from this label that and so much more… managed to elude us in the past. your friends at bdc… THE BURNSIDE DISTRIBUTION TEAM MAIN OFFICE SALES STAFF 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Suite 285 Portland, OR, 97203 SKIP WERNER CLAY PASTERNACK P (503) 231-0876 General Manager Rep area: Midwest F (503) 231-0420 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Suite 285 21258 Maplewood Ave. Portland, OR 97203 Rocky River, OH 44116-1244 P (503) 231-0876 P (440) 333-2208 F (503) 231-0420 F (440) 333-2280 BILL MCNALLY [email protected] [email protected] Vice President [email protected] FRANK BRANDON Operations Manager/Label Relations [email protected] JAMIE MCMULLEN Digital Distribution Coordinator [email protected] CAMERON FRALEY Warehouse Staff [email protected] MARTHA HUCK Accounting Manager [email protected] ( 3) NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 ( 4) NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 AMERICANA Romi Mayes, Devil On Both Shoulders CD If you haven't heard Romi Mayes' music yet, it's time you did. From the prairies of Canada, Mayes is one of CAT: the hardest working independent musicians touring the globe today. Devil On Both Shoulders', her 6th full- RM-005 length release, is another testament to why Romi’s past albums have garnered three Western Canadian LABEL: Romi Mayes Music Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year, two Western Canadian Music Awards for Album of The UPC: 773865003812 Year, a Juno nomination for Album of the Year, and various Canadian Music Award nominations. PRICE: $13.99 Mayes is known for her matter-of-fact lyrical ability that gives power and life to the words she sings. Her accessible sweet and edgy vocals paint pictures of heart-on-her-sleeve sincerity with a road well travelled and she seriously slings a bad ass guitar. She has no intention of burning out or fading away; Romi Mayes has proven she is here to stay. Beth McKee, Sugarcane Revival CD Beth McKee’s Sugarcane Revival is as earthy and raw as the cane fields that, like the songwriter’s past, CAT: stretch across the American Gulf Coast. The follow up to 2012's Next to Nowhere is a deeply passionate SGM2015 combination of funky emotion and powerful vulnerability, propelled by McKee’s upright piano and churning LABEL: Swampgirl Music grooves from Cuban born husband, drummer Juan Perez. Sugarcane Revival is the finest outing to date UPC: 735885675325 from McKee, who first splashed with her New Orleans band Evangeline via MCA records, and whose PRICE: $13.99 lauded tribute to Louisiana songwriter Bobby Charles, I'm That Way, landed her firmly in the record collections of Southern music mavens, everywhere. “This lady is a true daughter of the South and sings like an angel with a day pass from women’s detention.” Bill Bentley, Vanguard Records. " BLUES Hank Mowery, Excuses Plenty CD Coming on the heels of his acclaimed 2013 release, Account to Me, (2014 Best Self-Produced CD – The CAT: Blues Foundation) Hank Mowery’s sophomore solo album, Excuses Plenty, boasts one hard-hitting BBCD 1020 original after another. Combining relentless shuffles, exquisite after-hours laments and storming juke joint LABEL: Blue Bella Records rockers into a remarkably cohesive statement sure to accelerate Mowery’s rise into the uppermost (Mowery) echelon of contemporary blues artists. The disc includes guest appearances by Mike Morgan, Doug UPC: 889176878183 Deming, Dennis Gruenling, Pete Curry and Larry Taylor. With its blend of traditional and contemporary PRICE: $15.99 blues, there is no excuse not to dig it. CHILDRENS Bunny Clogs, Whales Can't Whistle CD Whales Can't Whistle, Bunny Clogs sophomore effort, is a family dance party celebration of the oddballs CAT: of the animal kingdom: the platypus, squid, naked mole rats, sea slugs, capybara, and sea pigs. There are PRCD02 messages of kindness to all animals as well as gentle ethical lessons interwoven with madcap Monty LABEL: Princess Records Python-like silliness and a whole lot of rump shaking fun for families contained therein. Daughters Esther UPC: 707541834490 (16) & AvaBella (14) grew up making the first Bunny Clogs have performed with dad Adam Levy of The PRICE: $13.99 Honeydogs on stage for years and, this time around as teenagers, took an active role in conceptualizing the record, creating the stories and characters. ( 5) NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 CHILDRENS Bunny Clogs, More! More! More! CD More! More! More! is the debut of songwriter Adam Levy's (The Honeydogs) family-friendly Bunny CAT: Clogs. It's a food themed record with Shel Silverstein irony and gentle lessons galore. The record mixes PRCD01 sampling, rhythm & blues dance feels with Levy's lifelong love of 60's and 70's pop. The album was LABEL: Princess Records recorded with Levy's daughters--from infancy through early school years. It's a giggle-fest, singalong UPC: 707541078498 dance party that parents love as much as their kids do. PRICE: $13.99 The Harmonica Pocket, Sundrops CD The Harmonica Pocket, the Parents' Choice Gold Award-winning, solar-powered stars of Puget Sound’s CAT: independent family music scene, release their third album Sundrops. This collection of 12 snappy tunes THP007 about singing in the sun, splashing in sundrops, digging in the dirt, plucking a ukulele and enjoying the LABEL: The Harmonica Pocket surprises and fleeting moments of life. Sundrops is an uplifting collection of organic, acoustic songs, UPC: 888295242196 recorded at The Harmonica Pocket’s island solar-powered studio on Marrowstone Island. Special guests PRICE: $13.99 Chris Ballew (aka Caspar Babypants), Johnny Bregar, Marcy Marxer, Alex Mitnick and Simon Lynge add to the full and expansive sound .The core of the band is Keeth Apgar and Nala Walla, and their 4 year old son Montana adds adorable vocal bits on “Are You A Monster Too?” and “I Love Ukuleles.” FOLK Thea Gilmore, Ghosts & Graffiti CD It’s not often that a 35 year old singer has 15 albums. Thea Gilmore’s 17-year career has seen her profile CAT: and audience grow with inexorable momentum since her first album. Her newest long playing offering, fccd165 Ghosts and Graffiti is a compilation with its own twists – part new album, part retrospective – Gilmore has LABEL: Fullfill included four all-new songs that sit alongside six newly-recorded versions of old material, selected jewels UPC: 0684340002506 from her back catalogue and, just for good measure, a few radio hits are also included. Featuring guest PRICE: $17.99 appearances from The Waterboys, Joan Baez, Billy Bragg, John Cooper Clarke, Joan As Policewoman, King Creosote and I Am Kloot, Ghosts & Graffiti is as much an artistic achievement as it is a career celebration. She is the conscience of the music industry, that little voice in your head that proves that beyond hyperbole, there is music that matters and the people that it matters to. That is where true, lasting careers are born and that is exactly where Thea Gilmore shines. The corresponding double LP contains five additional songs. Thea Gilmore, Ghosts & Graffiti Vinyl CAT: fclp165 LABEL: Fullfill UPC: 0684340002513 PRICE: $28.00 Corinne West, Starlight Highway CD It is said that whisky poets & angels sing through a voice of velvet & grit; songstress Corinne West’s 5th CAT: album has harnessed the elements with poetry and soul-stirring compositions. Deep Americana roots 7447 formed by her nomadic history radiate throughout her respected reputation in the global acoustic-roots LABEL: Make Records scene. UPC: 614511830423 Corinne says “I wanted to create a body of songs that moved my music into places unfamiliar to me, while PRICE: $13.99 paying tribute to the music I have done in the past. This influenced my instrumental decisions; organ, acoustic rock, heavy harmonies, (Kelly Joe Phelps) the rock solid drums, (Ricky Fataar), laid back ballads, (Mike Marshall)… I wanted to play with many flavors, and didn’t hold back on any spices while in the sonic kitchen.” ( 6) NEW RELEASE GUIDE MAY 2015 NEW AGE Shaina Noll, Songs for the Inner Child CD Available once again---Shaina Noll's Songs for the Inner Child collection of chants and lullabies, both CAT: traditional and contemporary.