#42 May 2008
Green disc…
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JOHN HIATT
“Love You Again”
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CD Same Old Man
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LABEL New West Records
Raised in Indiana (but now based in Nashville), John Hiatt started his career in the early ’70s as a songwriter for Tree Publishing before releasing his debut album in 1974. For many years his albums covered many musical bases, including blues, folk, soul, new wave and country.
Hiatt’s self-produced Same Old Man features Kenneth Blevins on drums, Patrick O’Hearn on bass and North Mississippi Allstars’ Luther Dickinson on guitar, mandolin and National resonator, while John’s daughter Lilly sings harmony on “Love You Again.”
His songs have been recorded by Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Buddy Guy, Three Dog Night, Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Nick Lowe, Rosanne Cash, Mandy Moore, Iggy Pop and Paula Abdul, as well as Back Door Slam, who do a live version of his “Riding With The King” on this sampler.
On September 18, John Hiatt will receive the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting. “It’s a privilege to honor John Hiatt,” says the Association’s Executive Director, Jed Hilly. “He is the essence of what the Americana Songwriter award is all about; a true artist, a performer and songwriter whose work is steeped with integrity.” Past recipients include Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Cowboy Jack Clement, John Prine and Billy Joe Shaver.
Hiatt was #1 Most Added at Non-Comm, #1 Most Added on the R&R Indicator panel and #1 Most Added at Americana radio out of the box.
CONTACT Jeff Cook 866.960.7524 jeff@newwestrecords.com
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RACHAEL SAGE
“Vertigo”
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CD Chandelier
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LABEL MPress Records
A resident of Manhattan’s East Village, self-taught singer and musician Rachael Sage has won numerous songwriting contests, and she’s written music for many TV commercials.
Chandelier, her eighth CD, was produced by Sage, recorded by her longtime collaborator John Shyloski (moe., Johnny Winters) and mixed by Kevin Killen (U2, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos); it features an A-list of musicians who have played with Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Coldplay, Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, Moby, Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Marc Cohn and Tracy Chapman, among others.
Sage wrote “Vertigo” after briefly dating someone who turned out to be married. “It was the kind of thing you see in bad TV movies and you think that it couldn’t happen to you. It was so blind-siding and confusing because it made me question my own judgment on every level.” WSGE, WUKY, KRSH, KLCC, WRRW, KFAN and KVNF are already playing this song.
Typically on the road five to six months a year, Sage’s upcoming shows include Savannah, Georgia (7/24); Charlotte, North Carolina (7/25); and Asheville, North Carolina (7/26).
“Pop music isn’t crafted as carefully and expertly as this anymore, and Sage is the stitch between the great rock and pop traditions of the past and what those traditions have wrought in the hypermodern world of the present.” —Allmusic.com
CONTACT M:M Music 323.939.8206 & Jeff Appleton (Marathon Entertainment) 810.797.2287 jeffappleton@marathonentertainment.biz
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JEN FOSTER
“Closer To Nowhere”
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CD Songs From “Thirty-Nine” EP
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LABEL Fosterchild Records
Raised outside of Houston, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jen Foster lives in Nashville now. She has played at SXSW and opened for Lisa Loeb, Allison Moorer, The Samples, Sophie B. Hawkins, K’s Choice, Crash Test Dummies and more.
Inspired by her two older brothers, who each played guitar and had their own bands, Foster has been performing since high school.
“Closer To Nowhere,” which is already on WRLT, WUKY and KRVM, and has more than 13,700 of Jen’s 145,000 spins at www.myspace.com/jenfoster, recently won First Prize in the Triple A Category of the International Songwriting Competition, at which Tom Waits and Indigo Girl Amy Ray were judges. She’s also been a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and a First Prize recipient in the Great American Songwriting Contest.
Foster co-produced her upcoming fourth album, Thirty-Nine, in Nashville with Greg Droman (who’s engineered and/or mixed Fleetwood Mac, Emmylou Harris and Lindsey Buckingham). She was backed by guitarist Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Dixie Chicks), keyboardist Rami Jaffee and drummer Fred Eltringham of The Wallflowers and Vertical Horizon bassist Sean Hurley. Thirty-Nine is due out this summer.
You may have heard Foster’s songs on All My Children or in the recent American Pie movie sequel, Beta House.
CONTACT Jeff Appleton (Marathon Entertainment) 810.797.2287 jeffappleton@marathonentertainment.biz & Jenn Brinn (Fosterchild) 615.525.6649 jennbrinn@jenfoster.com
4 LOWEN & NAVARRO
“Learning To Fall”
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CD Learning To Fall
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LABEL Red Hen Records
WEB www.lownav.com
During their 28-year career as a songwriting team, Eric Lowen’s and Dan Navarro’s songs have been recorded by Pat Benatar (the worldwide hit “We Belong”), The Bangles, The Four Tops, Dave Edmunds, The Temptations, David Lee Roth and a host of others. It’s now been 20 years since the LA-based duo began performing its own tunes.
Learning To Fall is their sixth album of new original material since 1990 and their eleventh album overall.
Coming full circle for their new CD, Lowen & Navarro reunited with six-time-Grammy-winner Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks, Foo Fighters, Sting), who produced their first three albums and mixed their fourth.
Eric Lowen was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (aka ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in March of 2004. The disease has robbed him of his ability to walk and play guitar, but he still sings and tours with Dan Navarro on a limited basis. A video for “Learning To Fall” features a 30-voice choir of People with ALS (PALS), family members and artist friends, including John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting.
For insight into Lowen & Navarro’s impact, consider that they’re among the 100 Most Influential Indie Artists listed in Performing Songwriter’s June 2008 issue, and that a tribute album is in the works featuring L&N covers by Jackson Browne, Keb’ Mo’ and The Bangles, among others. Proceeds will benefit The Eric Lowen Trust and the ALS Association of Greater Los Angeles.
CONTACT Jeff Appleton (Marathon Entertainment) 810.797.2287 jeffappleton@marathonentertainment.biz
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KEATON SIMONS
“Good Things Get Better”
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CD Can You Hear Me
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LABEL CBS Records
Singer/songwriter Keaton Simons grew up in the Los Angeles area. His mom was a singer, writer and actress and his father produced the TV series Malcolm In The Middle. His stepfather is actor Eric Roberts.
He began his career playing hip-hop, backing up such artists as Snoop Dogg, Tre Hardson (Pharcyde), Kim Hill (Black Eyed Peas) and N’Dea Davenport before releasing his own five-song EP in 2004 (which KCRW played extensively).
Can You Hear Me, which is his first album, was produced by Grammy-winning engineer David Bianco (Mick Jagger, The Black Crowes, Rhett Miller, Tift Merritt).
Simons has 480,000 spins on www.myspace.com/keatonsimons and “Good Things Get Better” was recently featured on Numb3rs.
Keaton has shared stages with Coldplay, Chris Isaak, Gnarls Barkley and Five For Fighting, among others.
CONTACT Brian Rhoades brhoades@cbs.com 917.539.7600 & Queenie Connor 310.575.7325 queenie.connor@cbsrecords.com
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GRETA GAINES
“L Is 4 L-O-S-E-R”
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CD Whiskey Thoughts
ON SALE 7/29
LABEL Justice Records
Greta Gaines didn’t start writing songs until she was 22, but she has a biography that reads like a great novel. The daughter of writer/outdoorsman Charles Gaines—author of Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry and the inventor of the game of Paintball—and painter/sculptor/former Miss Alabama Patricia Ellisor Gaines, Greta grew up on a New Hampshire farm where family guests included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hunter S. Thompson. In 1992, Greta won the first Women’s Extreme Snowboarding World Championship.
Greta’s been the host of MTV’s Sports and Music Festival, she hosted her own extreme sports TV show on the Oxygen Network, Freeride With Greta Gaines, for three seasons and she hosted ESPN 2’s Basscenter and The New American Sportsman. She has also licensed her music to ESPN, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Oxygen Network, and contributed to a dozen movie scores. Gaines also did a song for the film The Hottest State, in which she plays Ethan Hawke’s wife.
Greta started her professional music career by getting signed to Irving Azoff’s Giant Records, but after recording and mixing 40 songs, the label disappeared in a corporate merger, so in 1999 she self-released her first album, Greta Gaines, which she followed with 2004’s It Was Hot and the 2006 seven-song EP Can’t Kill The Flavor.
Greta’s new album, Whiskey Thoughts, was recorded in Nashville and features guest appearances from Willie Nelson, Raul Malo and Counting Crows’ drummer Jim Bogios.
Gaines has developed a reputation for her live performances. She appeared as part of the legendary Lilith Fair lineup in 1999, and she’s also warmed up audiences for Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos and Sheryl Crow, among others.
CONTACT Roger Mayer (Justice Records) 949.706.3457 roger@justicerecords.com & Brad Hunt (The WNS Group) 845.358.3003 bhsabres@aol.com
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JENNIFER LEONHARDT
“Homeland”
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CD Gods & Nations
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LABEL GrassRoots Records
Jennifer Leonhardt is a native Texan who was born to a family of artists and musicians, raised on the East Coast and spent years in Los Angeles and New York as an actress and singer before returning to Austin in 2006.
A classically trained violinist who also plays piano and guitar, she released an EP in 2004 and a live recording in 2005.
Jennifer’s latest release, Gods & Nations, is her first full-length CD. It was partially recorded in New York City with guitarist/producer Marc Copely (B.B. King, Robert Cray, Tracy Bonham) and in Seattle with Trespassers William guitarist/producer Matt Brown (Lucinda Williams, Bill Frisell, Eric Anders).
The essence of Gods & Nations began in the car as she drove out of New Orleans in the days before Katrina hit.
“A stirring songwriter, Leonhardt plays blues with vivid modern lyrics and harmonies. For [Gods & Nations], she wove the influence of her family of artists and musicians and the impact of Katrina into flowing Americana ballads.” —Austin American-Statesman
CONTACT J.B. Brenner (The J.B. Brenner Company) 805.777.7999 jb@jbbrenner.com & Jeff Appleton (Marathon Entertainment) 810.797.2287 jeffappleton@marathonentertainment.biz
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SARAH BETTENS
“I Can’t Get Out”
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CD Shine
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LABEL Cocoon Records
Singer/songwriter Sarah Bettens was born in Kapellen, Belgium, but she’s lived in the US for the past seven years.
Before embarking on a solo career, Sarah made a huge splash with her band K’s Choice, which also featured her brother Gert. K’s Choice released four albums between 1994 and 2000, toured North America as part of Lilith Fair and shared stages worldwide with artists including Alanis Morissette, Indigo Girls and Morphine before calling it a career in 2003.
Sarah released her first solo album, Scream, in 2005, and her latest, Shine, was issued in Europe late last year; Belgian newspaper DeMorgen sold out 200,000 copies of the issue that included a free copy of Shine (more than double the paper’s usual circulation).
To record Shine, Sarah chose to work with American producer Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Lee, Pete Yorn).
Sarah already has more than 414,000 spins at www.myspace.com/sarahbettens, with XM The Loft, Sirius OutQ and Organic X already on board. She completed a mini-tour of North America in March, she’s currently touring Europe, and she’ll return to the States this summer with a show scheduled for Dallas (7/4) so far.
CONTACT Wil Sharpe (Sharpe Entertainment Services) 310.230.2100 wil@ses-la.com
9 SERA CAHOONE
“Only As The Day Is Long”
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CD Only As The Day Is Long
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LABEL Sub Pop Records
Singer/songwriter Sera Cahoone, the daughter of a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, grew up in Colorado and moved to Seattle when she was 21.
Sera started pursuing her rock dreams as a drummer, manning the traps for Carissa’s Wierd (sic), Patrick Park and Band Of Horses before putting down the sticks and striking out on her own—à la fellow Seattleite Dave Grohl—as a singer/songwriter/guitarist with the release of her self-titled, critically acclaimed debut CD in 2006.
Only As The Day Is Long is Cahoone’s second solo outing. It was produced by Zack Reinig and features the pedal steel of Jason Kardong (Grand Archives).
Sera has over 177,000 spins on www.myspace.com/seracahoone, and she taped World Café on June 13.
CONTACT Susan Busch 206.428.1343 susanb@subpop.com
10 GRAND ARCHIVES
“Torn Blue Foam Couch”
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CD The Grand Archives
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LABEL Sub Pop Records
WEB www.myspace.com/grandarchives
Seattle-based Grand Archives is made up of Mat Brooke (vocals, guitar); Jeff Montano (bass, vocals), Curtis Hall (guitar, vocals), Ron Lewis (keys, guitar, vocals) and Thomas Wright (drums, vocals).
Grand Archives (née Archives) is largely the brainchild of Brooke, who started the band after leaving Band Of Horses in 2006 and wrote most of the songs on their debut disc, The Grand Archives.
The Grand Archives was recorded in three different studios with producer Ben Kersten (Carissa’s Wierd).
More than 335,000 spins have been tabulated for Grand Archives on www.myspace.com/grandarchives.
CONTACT Susan Busch 206.428.1343 susanb@subpop.com
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DARCIE MINER
“Come Pick Me Up” (radio edit)
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CD single
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LABEL Indminer Records
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s Darcie Miner was the first unsigned artist to have been a WXPN Artist To Watch, and Bruce Warren has called her “an extraordinary songwriter and singer, and immensely talented.”
Miner started writing songs when she was just 8, she learned guitar when she was 11 and she was playing in clubs when she was 13. In fact, Darcie had gained a following across the East Coast before she even had a driver’s license.
Darcie’s cover of Ryan Adams’ “Come Pick Me Up,” has been cleaned up for radio. “I enjoyed your version of the song,” says Van Alston, who co-wrote “Come Pick Me Up” with Adams.
She’s approaching 100,000 spins at www.myspace.com/darcieminer.
A list of the artists that Darcie has either toured with or opened for includes Edwin McCain, Patty Griffin, Richard Thompson, The Drive-By Truckers, Eastmountainsouth, Wyclef Jean, Beth Hart, Jeffrey Gaines, Heart, Darius Rucker and Graham Parker.
CONTACT Jim Murphy 610.623.8077
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COURTNEY JONES
“Awake & Dreaming”
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CD Awake & Dreaming
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LABEL CourtneyJonesMusic
WEB www.courtneyjonesmusic.com
Twenty-one-year-old Courtney Jones hasn’t released her debut album yet and hometown station KINK already has plans to feature “Awake & Dreaming” on their first-ever local artist CD. Courtney also performed live in-studio at KINK in April, and she’ll play other KINK-sponsored events this summer (including her CD release show July 25).
Awake & Dreaming includes appearances from bassists Bob Glaub (Bob Dylan, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne) and John Ossman (Paula Cole), along with Lucinda Williams’ touring rhythm section of Butch Norton and Dave Sutton. Stevie Blacke (Colbie Caillat, Anna Nalick, Timbaland, Jennifer Hudson) provided the string arrangements.
Courtney’s song “Long Way Down” is featured (alongside tunes by Elton John, Peter Gabriel and Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas) in Cosmic Radio, a film starring Michael Madsen that premiered in January at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Meanwhile, “Passenger” and “Relief” from her CD received Honorable Mentions in the West Coast Songwriter's Association 2008 International Songwriting Competition in the Pop and Singer/Songwriter categories, respectively.
This is producer Peter Malick’s second time around with a girl called Jones. In 2000, he was working with a young piano player named Norah right before she took off for multi-platinum pastures.
Courtney has opened for Missy Higgins and Bitter:Sweet, and she’s played at festivals with Augustana and Anna Nalick. She’s currently playing on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon (7/22, 7/25, 9/12, 11/1); and Independence, Oregon (8/8).
CONTACT M:M Music 323.939.8206 & CourtneyJonesMusic Management 503.930.8990 courtneyjonesmusic@comcast.net
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EDWARD ROGERS
“The Last To Leave The Party”
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CD You Haven’t Been Where I’ve Been
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LABEL Zip Records/RED
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Edward Rogers was born in Birmingham, England, but he’s been living in New York City for many years now.
In October of 1985, Rogers lost his right arm and leg in a horrible subway accident after falling off a train he was riding.
In addition to his solo career, Rogers was a founding member of Green Rooftops, is a frequent contributor to NYC’s fabled “Loser’s Lounge” shows, produced “The Beat Goes On,” a series of concerts held at Greenwich Village’s Bottom Line cabaret, and he is also a charter member of the Bedsit Poets. Edward can also be heard on his weekly Internet radio show called “Atlantic Tunnel” on www.eastvillageradio.com.
Rogers released his debut solo CD, Sunday Fables, in 2004 on Notlame Recordings, the world famous indie power-pop label, and his other project, The Bedsit Poets, released a CD in 2005.
You Haven’t Been Where I’ve Been is Rogers’ second solo CD, and was co-produced by Edward and his songwriting partner, George Usher. It features guest appearances from ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, guitarist Marty Willson-Piper of The Church and Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken. It was mixed by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Active).
CONTACT Ray Paul (Permanent Press Radio Promotion) 585.764.0150 raypaul@permanentpress.net & Art Herman (Zip) 415.348.8426
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WILD SWEET ORANGE
“Ten Dead Dogs”
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CD We Have Cause To Be Uneasy
ON SALE 7/15
LABEL Canvasback/Columbia
WEB www.myspace.com/wildsweetorange
All of Wild Sweet Orange’s members—Preston Lovinggood (vocals, guitar); Chip Kilpatrick (drums); Taylor Shaw (guitar); and Garret Kelly (bass)—have roots in the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Homewood. They started playing together a few years ago as Old American Dream.
Wild Sweet Orange did their first recordings in late 2005, and one song, “Sour Milk,” started getting airplay on Scott Register’s syndicated “Reg’s Coffee House” program. Further sessions yielded “Ten Dead Dogs,” which received airplay across the country at KEXP. In 2007, they self-released an EP called The Whale.
In February, they entered the Austin studio of producer Mike McCarthy (Patty Griffin, Spoon) to complete their debut CD, We Have Cause To Be Uneasy, which includes tracks from their early recordings as well as newer tunes recorded earlier this year.
Even before their debut album is out Wild Sweet Orange has already been featured on a 2007 episode of Grey’s Anatomy and they’ve received over 272,000 spins at www.myspace.com/wildsweetorange.
WSO has spent the past year on the road, opening for such bands as Counting Crows and The Whigs. Currently on tour again, they played the Non-Commvention in Philadelphia, and they'll be at Lollapalooza in Chicago (8/3).
CONTACT Lisa Sonkin lisa.sonkin@sonybmg.com 212.833.4364 & Nicole George 212.833.8382 nicole.george@sonybmg.com
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DOWNTOWN MYSTIC
“A Way To Know”
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CD Read The Signs
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LABEL Sha-La Music
WEB www.myspace.com/downtownmystic
Read The Signs is the second CD from DownTown Mystic, a band that centers on Hillsdale, New Jersey’s Robert Allen and LA resident Bruce Engler, both of whom write, sing and play guitar.
A few years ago, Allen got the urge to play his own traditional rock songs with modern musicians so he recorded with some of the artists on his Sha-La Music label. Eventually, Allen turned these recordings into a loosely assembled group effort, and that’s how DownTown Mystic got started.
Allen and Engler were joined on Read The Signs by drummer Steve Holley (Wings, Joe Cocker, Dar Williams, Marshall Crenshaw) and bassist Paul Page (Ian Hunter, The Smithereens, Popa Chubby), along with E Street Band rhythm section Garry Tallent and Max Weinberg (who have now played on both DownTown Mystic CDs).
“A Way To Know” features E Streeters Gary Tallent on bass and Max Weinberg on drums.
Songs from Read The Signs have been played on WMNF, KRCL, KXCI, KKFI, WDIY, WITR, WMIR, WACC, WHFC, WRRW, WMSV, KUMD, KRVM, KPCW, KRVS, WVIA, WFIT, KAXE, WMFO, KDNK, KVNF, KSUT, KKCR, KMUD and more.
CONTACT Crystal Ann Lea (M:M Music) 323.939.2665 crystalann@mindspring.com & Robert Allen (Sha-La Music) 201.664.1955 shalaman1@aol.com
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BILL CUTLER
“Rockingham Mill”
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CD Crossing The Line
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LABEL Magnatude Records
A native New Yorker who got his start in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s (sharing stages with folk legends Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen and David Blue), Bill Cutler moved to San Francisco in the “Summer of Love,” 1967, switched from acoustic to electric guitar, and established himself in the fabled Haight-Ashbury music scene.
Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Cutler played in a succession of Bay Area bands, getting signed to several major label deals.
In addition to his work as a musician and songwriter, Cutler has also done extensive work as an engineer/producer, including tracks by Jewel, Mike Bloomfield and John Lee Hooker, among others. He hosted several producer panels at the annual Gavin Radio Convention in, and in 1992 he produced a song that the Clinton-Gore Presidential campaign used at youth rallies. As an A&R guy, Cutler helped supervise the discovery of Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians.
Now, after many years, Cutler has released his first-ever solo album, Crossing The Line. “I first started work on this album in the 1970s,” he says. “A few years ago, after some 18 years of lying dormant, the original tapes were restored, new tracks were cut, and finally, this record was completed.”
Guest musicians on Crossing The Line include Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Jorma Kaukonen, David Nelson and Dave Torbert of New Riders Of The Purple Sage), Jerry Miller of Moby Grape, harmonica ace Matthew Kelly (RatDog, Kingfish) and many more.
CONTACT J.B. Brenner (The J.B. Brenner Company) 805.777.7999 jb@jbbrenner.com & Rick Stone (Music Exposure Solutions) 818.706.3495 rstone@jmapromo.com
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JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN
“To Be Loved”
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CD To Survive
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LABEL Cheap Lullaby Records
Joan Wasser was born in Biddeford, Maine, grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut, and she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She started playing piano at age 6 and violin at age 8.
Her first foray into pop music came in the ’90s as a member of The Dambuilders. In 1997, The Dambuilders broke up, the same year that her boyfriend, Jeff Buckley (who reportedly wrote “Everybody Here Wants You” about Joan) drowned. In the aftermath, she formed Black Beetle with the surviving members of Buckley’s band. She also has played with a number of other artists, including Rufus Wainwright (in whose band she was once a full-time member), Sheryl Crow, Joseph Arthur and Lou Reed.
Joan As Police Woman, which is a trio led by Wasser, released its first EP in 2004. A full-length debut, Real Life, followed in 2006.
To Survive, the new album from Joan As Police Woman, features guest appearances from Rufus Wainwright and David Sylvian, and the songs highlight Joan’s vocals and piano. It was recorded in Brooklyn with producer Bryce Goggin.
Joan As Police Woman, who has over 593,000 spins at www.myspace.com/joanaspolicewoman, is about to tour Europe, where they are very popular.
CONTACT Joe Ross (Cheap Lullaby) 310.306.6817 joe@cheaplullaby.com
& Crystal Ann Lea (M:M Music) 323.939.2665 crystalann@mindspring.com
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JEREMY SCHONFELD
“Try” (featuring Jarrod Emick)
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CD 37 Notebooks
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LABEL Jersongs Music
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Jeremy Schonfeld is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and one of the most sought-after composers for musical theater. He’s also opened for James Taylor.
Jeremy’s first album was Blue Skies And All, a 20-track, double-CD box set of all original compositions. He followed that up with Drift, an original concept album which was later turned into a musical.
37 Notebooks features Broadway stars singing his songs, including Shoshana Bean (Wicked); Luther Creek (Flight Of The Conchords); Julie Danao-Salkin (Lennon); Donnie Kehr (Jersey Boys); Lauren Kennedy (Spamalot); Julia Murney (Wicked); Adam Pascal (Rent); Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde); Amy Spanger (Kiss Me, Kate); and Tracie Thoms (Rent: The Movie). Jarrod Emick, who won a 1994 Tony Award for Damn Yankees, is the singer on “Try.”
Schonfeld recently performed in and wrote the music and lyrics for a film called Clear Blue Tuesday, which chronicles 11 artists in post-9/11 New York through a montage of songs and scenes.
He recently signed on to help create a new reality TV show based on songwriting.
CONTACT Vera Sheps (Two Sheps That Pass) 646.613.1101 vera@twoshepsthatpass.com & Rachel Olin (Two Sheps That Pass) 646.613.1101 rachel@twoshepsthatpass.com