RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 11/15/2006 Dito Montiel “Crossing Rivers” From his new self-titled cd, exclusvively available through iTunes and Amazon, going for adds now Wrote and directed “A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints” starring Robert Downey Jr. Various Artists “Rhythms Del Mundo - Cuba” Most Added! First week: KCRW, WXPN, KTBG, KSUT, WNRN, KDTR, KWRP... In stores now! Featuring Coldplay’s “Clocks”, Jack Johnson’s “Better Together”, the final recording from Ibrahim Ferrer and more Yusuf “Heaven (Where True Love Goes)” R&R Indicator and FMQB Most Added! From An Other Cup, his first album of new songs in 28 years, in stores now New: WRLT, WYEP, KTHX, KCRW, WCBE... ON: KGSR, WFUV, WNCS, WFPK, WXPN, WTMD, KLRR, KPND... Annie Stela Ben Harper “It’s You” “Morning Yearning” New this week: KWMT! ON: WTMD, WCBE, WMVY, R&R Monitored New & Active! Indicator Most Increased! KTBG, WRNX, DMX, KMTN, KTAO, KUWR, WYOU New: WBCG, KDBB, WAPS, KRVO ON: KBCO, KTCZ, Just finished touring with Joseph Arthur - more dates to come WRNR, KTHX, WDST, WFIV, WTMD, WBJB, KCLC... EP released this past summer, full cd due in January Over 250K scanned! Red Rocks concert airing on XM all this week Buddy Guy “I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled & Crazy” Los Lonely Boys “My Way” New: KPIG, WMWV, KBAC, KRCC, WFHB, WNTI, KFAN... R&R Monitored 20*! Indicator 5*! Indicator #1 Most Increased! ON: KGSR, WRLT, WFUV, WNRN, WCBE, KNBA, WMVY... New this week: KBCO, WZEW, KRVI ON: WXRT, Featuring John Mayer on guitar and Steve Jordan on drums, KFOG, KMTT, KPRI, WTTS, WRLT, KTHX, WCLZ... from his career-spanning box set Can’t Quit The Blues, in stores now See them on tour this month with Ozomatli KT Tunstall “Other Side Of The World” Joan Osborne “Who Divided” R&R Monitored 14*! Indicator 7*! R&R Monitored New & Active! Indicator 13*! New: WQKL, WFIV, KBAC Certified Platinum!! FMQB Public 6*! Pretty Little Stranger in stores now ON: KBCO, KFOG, KTCZ, WBOS, KMTT, KPRI, WXRV... New adds: KUT, WUIN, WAPS, WRSI, KOHO, WYSO, WHRV CD/DVD Acoustic Extravaganza in US stores now O N: KGSR, WXRV, WRLT, KTHX, WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, WYEP, WXPK... Damien Rice “9 Crimes” Keb Mo “The Itch” The first single from his new cd “9”, in stores Tuesday FMQB Tracks 40*! Over 40,000 scanned already! New: WHRV, WERU ON: WFIV, WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, WYEP, ON: KGSR, KINK, KRSH, WUIN, WMVY, KDBB, WTMD, WMVY, WMWV, KSUT, WNRN, KTBG, KCLC, WCBE... KSPN, KFMU, KUT, WFUV, KBAC, WWVV, WYEP... Full cd on your desk and in stores now! Conan on Friday Spent all summer and fall on tour with Bonnie Raitt Dito Montiel: A Multimedia Marvel The release of Dito Montiel’s (pronounced DITTO MONTEEL) self-titled album this fall dovetails perfectly with his admittedly madcap master plan. “Getting a record deal is such an elusive thing. I told a friend that I was going to try to get a book out, then make a movie and then come back and figure out a way to get these songs out. Ridiculous, right? But that’s how it happened,” he explains. “Not necessarily the normal path to getting your songs heard, but then again I’m not used to taking the normal path anywhere.” Recorded over two months with friends and pick-up bands, the 15 tracks on DITO MONTIEL combine irresistible pop choruses, streetwise poetry and soaring melodies to create a vivid musical world on “Fade Away,” “You Were So High,” “Jimmy And Rey” and “You And I (Burn Like Satellites).” The songs span the more than 15 years that Montiel spent compulsively writing music since he left New York for Los Angeles after his hardcore punk band Gutterboy disbanded. “Making this album is something I just had to do,” he explains. “It would have existed whether I made 20 copies and gave them to friends or got a record deal. I recorded these songs because I wanted to hear them so much that I found a way to make them.” Signing with the re-launched Atco Records label earlier this year, Montiel says his album serves as a fitting bookend to his first experience signing a record deal with a major label. Gutterboy signed with Geffen for $1 million, an unheard of amount in 1989, and went on to become one of the most ‘successful’ unsuccessful bands in rock history. “I don’t regret my experience with Gutterboy, but I’ve always felt like we got our first record deal for all the wrong reasons,” Montiel says. “I’m really happy this album is being made because it was made for all the right reasons. I recorded it with my friends when I could wrangle free studio time. I recorded anywhere from a 24-track room in Topanga Canyon to a cassette recorder in Queens with whatever musicians were hanging out at the studio that day. This album is something I simply had to do.” Montiel returned to the spotlight in 2003 with, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a fictional take on his life growing up in Astoria, Queens in the early ’80s during the rise of hardcore. After adapting the best-selling book into a screenplay, Montiel made his directorial debut this year with the film version of AGTRYS, an evocative mood piece that ranks as one of the more indelible accounts of New York City street life in years. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson and Chazz Palminteri, the film earned a Special Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Ensemble Performance this year at the Sundance Film Festival, while Montiel was awarded the Dramatic Directing Award for his work. The film will be released on DVD next February. NY’s Daily News has high praise for Joan Osborne “Joan Osborne brings it all back home on her bracingly great new album. Though the singer made her reputation in the clubs of New York by honing an erudite brand of soul, she actually hails from the country-loving town of Anchorage, Ky. But only on this fifth CD has Osborne made full use of that pedal-steel milieu. She cut “Pretty Little Stranger” in Nashville with players like Alison Krauss and Vince Gill helping out on songs penned by country lights as bright as Kris Kristofferson and Harlan Howard. Osborne wrote the other half of the songs herself, and all stand shoulder to shoulder with the savvy ones she chose to cover. That may surprise those who know Osborne only as that woman with a ring in her nose who sang the novelty hit “(What If God Was) One of Us.” Clearly, God didn’t like the comparison because Osborne’s mainstream career died with that mid-’90s song. In the time since, Osborne has covertly released some terrific work. In 2002, she issued “How Sweet It Is,” an album of R&B covers that put the emphasis on the lyrics of songs most of us prize for their tunes, or for the original singer’s delivery. Osborne’s thoughtful phrasing illuminated something new in hits we all thought we knew well, from the Spinners’ “I’ll Be Around” to Sly’s “Everybody Is a Star.” On “Pretty Little Stranger,” Osborne brings that same poise and intelligence to country songs. It’s wondrous to hear how she considers a lyric. She’ll treat the words like porcelain, handling them gingerly and admiringly, showing each off in a light thrown by her golden tone. How Osborne shines on these songs, but in a different way from before. While her breakthrough CD, 1997’s “Relish,” sounded like the natural successor to Bonnie Raitt’s 1972 classic album “Give It Up,” the new one seems more like the chaser to Linda Ronstadt’s 1975 touchstone “Heart Like a Wheel.” Like Ronstadt, Osborne does a great job of both curating and interpreting her covers. The Dead’s “Brokedown Palace” never sounded so forlorn. In “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends,” she gets everything out of Kristofferson’s revelatory bridge: “Never’s just the echo of forever/Lonesome is a love that might have been.” Genius. The title track, penned by Osborne, finds her rediscovering lust after a neutering heartbreak. “There’s a Spanish boy who also rides the A train,” she sings. “I want to tag him like a tiger.” Swoon. Osborne does something rare on her own “After Jane.” The lyric presents a lost friendship as equal in pain to a dashed romance. Then again, everything about “Stranger” seems rare, engaged and heartbreakingly true.” For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 11/8/06.