RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER JESSE BARNETT [email protected] www.rightarmresource.com 62 CONCERTO COURT, NORTH EASTON, MA 02356 (508) 238-5654 4/8/2009 Yusuf Hill Country Revue “Thinking ‘Bout You” “You Can Make It” The first single from Roadsinger, the new album The first single from Make A Move, in from the artist known as Cat Stevens, going for adds stores 5/12 and going for adds now! on Monday! Features vocals by James Morrison Early: WEXT, KSMT, WUTC, KSLU, WHRV Added early: WFUV, WBJB, Acoustic Cafe, KOZT, KDEC... HCR includes Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew from North Mississippi Spins on WXRT, KINK, KSWD, KGSR, KTHX and more Allstars The album also features Luther Dickinson and many others In stores 5/5 Select US dates! Huge iTunes pre-orders first day On tour now! See the complete run of dates on Page 2 Fastball “Little White Lies” Umphrey’s McGee “Cemetery Walk” New: WFIV, WJCU, KMMS ON: KGSR, WXPK, KPND, KUT, First week: WTMD, KTBG, WOCM, KPND, KMTN, WBJB, WYCE... WFUV, KNBA, WEXT, WAPS, WMWV, WBJB... April/May tour ON: WXRT Edit single on DMDS now, cd pro on the way! In stores Tuesday! “Fastball is in top form here!”-ModernPowerPop blog See them on tour this Spring! Entertainment Weekly: B+! Green River Ordinance “Come On” Maria Taylor “Cartoons and Forever Plans” FMQB Tracks: 36*! New: WWMM ON: KTCZ, WXRV, KRVB, WCLZ, Featuring Michael Stipe! Full cd Lady Luck in stores now KPRI, WNCS, KWMT, KXLY, KPTL, WRLT... Out Of My Hands in stores now New: WFPK ON: WEHM, WYEP, WFUV, WUIN, WMVY, WYEP, Dates with Matt Nathanson this month, then with Gavin DeGraw in May KTBG, WEXT, WCBE, WTMD, Music Choice, World Cafe... Indigo Girls “What Are You Like” Mother Mother “Body Of Years” R&R Monitored #13! Indicator 6*! New: KUT, KUWR, MSPR, WGWG... New: KSMT ON: KCLC, KRVM On your desk and going for adds now! ON: KBCO, WXRT, KFOG, KMTT, KGSR, WCLZ, KINK, WMMM, WZEW... “Undefineable - and remarkable - stuff!” - Grand Rapids Press Poseidon And The Bitter Bug, in stores now! Nonstop tour underway Check out the new video on the Right Arm Resource blog Michelle Malone “Yesterday’s Make Up” Pat McGee Band “Come Back Home” Debris in stores now! ON: WOCM, WCBE, WBJB, KROK, KNBA, ON: KMTT, KROK, WNRN, WJCU, KCLC, KVSF, KDEC, WBSD... WNCW, WFHB, WNKU, KDEC, KZMV, WUMB, KFAN, KXCI, KLCC... Full cd These Days (The Virginia Sessions) on your desk now Insane press! “All the marks of a seasoned pro” - Billboard On tour in April and May Video is getting MAJOR military blog buzz Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles “Do It For Free” Lisa Hannigan “I Don’t Know” FMQB Public #17! ON: WCOO, KRSH, WFPK, WYEP, KPIG, FMQB Tracks 35*! Public #35! ON: KGSR, WRNR, WCOO, KRSH, KDBB, KUT, WEHM, WJCU, KMMS, WMVY, WEVL... Great press! WFUV, WXPN, WFPK, WCNR, WTMD, KSPN, WYEP, WRSI, KXCI... “Tuneful and unhip in a hip kinda way” - Rolling Stone Knockout performance on Colbert last month! Video online now Brigitte DeMeyer “Wicked To Win” Raphael Saadiq “100 Yard Dash” From Red River Flower, in stores now ON: WTMD, KCLC, KNBA, FMQB Public #25! New: WFIV ON: KMTT, KINK, KGSR, WMMM, WFPK, WCBE, KFAN, KZMV, WUIN, KDNK, MSPR, WGWG, KXCI, KUWR, KRVM... WEHM, WXPN, WFUV, WYEP, KCMP, WMVY, KPND, KLRR, KOHO, WNKU... “Worthy of the impressive company she keeps” - Performing Songwriter Recent TV: Leno, Ellen, Kimmel, PBS Artists Den Almost 160K sold! The Duhks “You Don’t See It” The Alternate Routes “The Future’s Nothing New” New: WCNR, MSPR ON: WYEP, WKZE, KOZT, WTMD, KPND, R&R Monitored New & Active! FMQB Tracks #45! ON: KPRI, WRLT, KXLY, KRSH, WOXL, KROK, WMWV, WYSO, KFAN, WUMB, WNTI On tour! WCOO, Sirius, KPND, KBAC, WVOD, WFIV, WEXT, WBJB, WFPK, KOZT, KLRR... Check out their KINK Lounge performance - link on the RAR blog Live: 4/14 NYC, 4/25 Meridien CT, 4/30 Londonderry NH... Coming up... 4/20: Katie Melua “If The Lights Go Out”, HoneyHoney “Black Crows”... 4/27: Meat Puppets “Rotten Shame”... Let us enlighten you about the new Yusuf album Roadsinger hits stores 5/5, “Thinking ‘Bout You” featuring James Morrison going for adds now With his reintroduction to the pop world behind him, renowned singer-songwriter Yusuf (the artist known as Cat Stevens) is ready to once again strike up an intimate relationship with his audience. After retreating from the pop stage following classic ‘70s multi-platinum albums such as Tea For The Tillerman and Teaser And The Firecat and acclaimed hits such as “Wild World,” “Peace Train,” “Moonshadow,” “Morning Has Broken” and “Father And Son,” Yusuf returned in late 2006 with his first pop album in 28 years. Now a second album, Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night), is set to be released May 5, with the single “Thinking ‘Bout You” featuring vocals by James Morrison. “I was absent from my audience for so long,” Yusuf says, “people thought another album would never come. The 2006 album, An Other Cup, was a surprise. With this new album, the distance is much less. I’m back to doing what I do best — painting pictures with music and storytelling on a very human, personal, intuitive level through lyrics and song, so I can help people feel good again. I guess in some ways the new album picks up where the Cat Stevens the public knows left off.” The album, Roadsinger, was produced by the now singularly named Yusuf with help from Martin Terefe (James Morrison, Jason Mraz, Martha Wainwright), and recorded around the world. Guests include James Morrison, Michelle Branch, and Holly Williams (granddaughter of Hank Williams, Sr.). “The new album is a response to the way An Other Cup was received,” Yusuf explains. “Fans said they wanted to hear more of me with a guitar. So, this album is much more folk-tale oriented. Also, apart from one track, all of it was recorded live. I listened to a lot of’ ’70s L.A. music, such as Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carole King, and it inspired me to go back into that intimate style of recording. The songs are somewhat autobiographical but abstract enough so everyone can relate to them and connect them to their own lives.” The forthcoming album also showcases some songs from his upcoming musical “Moonshadow.” The story takes place on a planet of perpetual night where only the moon’s shine lights the darkness; it is about a boy’s meeting with his Moonshadow and the adventures they share in search for the a world of the sunlight and happiness. As well as having many new songs, the surrealistic musical, “Moonshadow” also weaves classic songs from his past, including ‘Morning Has Broken’, ‘Wild World’ and The First Cut Is The Deepest.” The show debuts in the UK in July. Hill Country Revue hits the road Billboard on Michelle Malone 4/8 Troy, NY “Road warrior Michelle Malone has been recording and touring 4/9 New York, NY (200 dates per year) for more 4/10 Falls Church, VA than two decades, and her 10th 4/11 Philadelphia, PA release bears all the marks of a seasoned pro. Unapologetic, 4/14 Lancaster, PA appealing performances? Check. 4/15 Millvale, PA Songs you want to hear more than once? Check. A balance of ballads, rockers and uptempo ditties? 4/16 Boone, NC Check. The Atlanta-born singer/songwriter blends 4/17 Athens, GA blues with country-fried folk-rock: A proper American 4/18 Orange Beach, AL cocktail that’s best drunk straight-up. There’s no studio trickery on Debris, no overdone guitar sounds 4/19 Orange Beach, AL or heavy-handed production. Just Malone, her band, 4/24 New Orleans, LA her voice—a more girlish Bonnie Raitt—and her ... and more to come! songs, charming in their honesty and simplicity. “Undertow” rocks out with Malone’s swampy slide guitar, “14th Street & Mars” waltzes through the pain PLUS: SEE THEM IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE of a relationship’s end, and “Yesterday’s Make Up,” a reclamation of the morning-after walk of shame, NON-COMMVENTION AT THE END OF MAY! deserves a place in every woman’s library.” - Billboard For up-to-the-minute AAA news... RIGHT ARM RESOURCE WEEKLY READER - 4/8/09.