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. 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Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture: taking cues from the dance bands of western Cat: GJ1314 Louisiana (and his native Midwest), the streets (and 45s) of New Orleans, and the soul, funk & blues of his youth. Label: Groovesburg Joys At the core is gifted songwriting, and the company Paul keeps bears it out: Bonnie Raitt, Nick Lowe, Chris Smither, UPC: 616892165743 John Hiatt and Cesar Rosas are among his friends and admirers. Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew of offhand Price: $8.15 adepts: drummer Reggie Bordeaux; multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings, on keys and reeds; percussionist Mac Perkins; and bassist Mike Fredrickson (a distinguished singer-songwriter in his own right). Home Base: Milwaukee xgBGIJCy16574nz PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TITLE HAS Top Markets: MidWest, Mid-Atlantic, New Orleans, NorthEast., Minneapolis A STREET DATE OF JANUARY 14TH 6 1689-21657-4 3 Krista Detor, Flat Earth Diary Krista Detor’s first solo album in 4 years, Flat Earth Diary, features the genius talents of Victor Wooten (Flecktones) and violinist, Ariel Horowitz. Internationally-acclaimed, Krista’s albums garner an average of 4+ Cat: 255113 stars, prompting The All Music Guide to refer to her as “an artist of rare ability and a deep poetic gift... so good she Label: Tightrope Records deserves to be famous;” The Boston Herald says, simply, “All songwriters should be this good,” and in an early UPC: 614511823326 review, Maverick calls Flat Earth Diary “Magnificent..” She’s written a companion piece, Flat Earth Diary: Notes from Price: $9.40 the Bridge – a backstage pass into the making of the album, including influences, journal entries and pictures. She consistently tours the US, UK, and Europe; all the while remaining a favorite of BBC UK and recurrent feature on PBS. Home Base: Bloomington, IN xgBEFBBy82332qz Top Markets: National 6 1451-18233-2 6 Kelley Hunt, Heartland Acclaimed roots / blues / americana singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt crosses boundaries again with this compelling CD SINGLE americana ballad, Heartland. The song soars through the Kansas Flint Hills as a reference point stating that we all see the beauty in the rest of the world through the lens of our own home. Recorded simply and beautifully during the Cat: EERHS12 Gravity Loves You sessions; Hunt defines the track with her vocal/acoustic piano performance and calls on Label: 88 Records Grammy-winning mando master Sam Bush and acoustic bassist Byron House (Robert Plant Band of Joy) to round UPC: 789577686625 out the arrangement. Hunt is one of those rare artists who is always authentic no matter what stylistic facet she Price: $3.35 mines, demonstrating similarities between styles of music rather than differences. She does it elegantly again here on a track that is sure to bring you back home. Home Base: Lawrence, KS xhIJFHHy68662pz Top Markets: National 7 8957-76866-2 5 Waddie Mitchell, Sweat Equity “I’d rather have a new roll of duct-tape than another cowboy poetry record.” - Waddie Mitchell America’s award winning buckaroo poet is back with a new album of old and new, studio and live, real and Cat: 47 imagined, cowboy and western words strewn together to make you laugh and cry. Because he knows that this Label: Western Jubilee can get tiring to some (see above quote), Waddie has infused these 14 tracks with some musical intervals by his Recording Company friends The Gillette Brothers of Crockett, Texas. He has performed around the world, featured in People, Fortune, UPC: 824761134633 The New York Tiomes, National Geographic and the Super Bowl Official program. He created the Elko Cowboy Poetry Price: $9.90 gathering and a poem at the request of The Olympics. From Carnegie Hall to the Tonight Show to his ranch in rural Nevada, Waddie never stops working and we’re all the better for it. Home Base: Nevada xiCEHGBy13463nz Top Markets: National 8 2476-11346-3 3 Various Artists, Deer Lodge--George Jones Deer Lodge George Jones is the first and only tribute album of all-new recordings following the legendary singer’s death in April of 2013.