#44 AUGUST 2008
Blue disc…
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DAVE RAVE and MARK McCARRON
“At The End Of Day”
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CD In The Blue Of My Dreams
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LABEL Bongo Beat Records
Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Dave Rave’s (aka David DesRoches) musical career begins way back in the 1970s, when he was a member of much-loved Canadian rockers Teenage Head (and later, The Shakers, The Dave Rave Conspiracy, The Washington Squares and more); Allmusic.com credits him with playing on 30 different albums since 1975.
In 2002, Dave made Another Side Of Love, his first record with jazz guitarist Mark McCarron, which featured smoother and mellower sounds than one might expect from a quick sampling of Rave’s catalog of recorded works.
For their second CD together, In The Blue Of My Dreams, Rave and McCarron cut tracks in both New York City and Canada, where they were joined by NYC jazz players Matt Ray (piano), Joe Bussey (bass) and Stefan Schatz (drums), as well as the woodwind and string sections of the Toronto Symphony.
In The Blue Of My Dreams was produced by Glenn Marshall, a protégé of Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.
McCarron lives in New York and Rave spends most of the year living there as well, which helps explain why much of In The Blue Of My Dreams focuses on 9/11.
CONTACT Lisa Millar 416.705.3111 lisa@dave-rave.com & Ralph Alfonso 604.562.6190 ralph@bongobeat.com
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MATTHEW SWEET
“Byrdgirl”
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CD Sunshine Lies
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LABEL Shout! Factory
Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, but now based in Los Angeles, Matthew Sweet began his musical career in the mid-’80s playing guitar for pop bands like Oh-OK and Buzz Of Delight before embarking on a solo career, with his first LP, Inside, released in 1986.
His 1991 album, Girlfriend, brought Sweet to the forefront, with the title track helping to propel the singer/songwriter to become what allmusic.com called “the leading figure of the American power pop revival.”
For Sunshine Lies, his 10th studio album, Matthew produced and mixed the entire record himself at his very own Lolina Green Studio.
He has once again brought in three of America’s finest guitarists to lay down tracks: Richard Lloyd (Television); Ivan Julian (Richard Hell & The Voidoids) and studio pedal steel wizard Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, T Bone Burnett, K.D. Lang, Sheryl Crow). Sweet’s longtime drummer Ric Menck handles the percussion chores, while the rest of the instruments (including multiple guitars, bass, keys and Mellotron) are handled by Matthew. The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew’s wife Lisa contribute backup vocals.
In 2003, Sweet was one-third of The Thorns with Shawn Mullins and Pete Droge.
CONTACT Kristie Vogel 310.979.5606 kvogel@shoutfactory.com
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RACHAEL SAGE
“Mexico”
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CD Chandelier
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LABEL MPress Records
Chandelier, her eighth CD, was produced by Rachael 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.
Recorded at the Carriage House in Stamford, Connecticut, Chandelier was recorded in 2006 and 2007. “This album is more about fragility,” says Sage of Chandelier. “A lot of my other albums tried to portray myself as being really resilient, but on this record I cared more about whether the music would uplift someone or just leave them stuck or hopeless.”
“Mexico” is only the second non-original song that Rachael has recorded. “I heard ‘Mexico’ on the radio when I was in Atlanta [at Dave-FM]. I was about to perform,” she says, “and I heard this song right before I came into the control room. I said, ‘Who is that?’ ‘A local Southern band called Jump.’ It stuck in my head, literally every word, after hearing it once. I played it at the next gig I had.”
WMNF, KFAI, WJCU, WUWM, KCLC, WSGE, KSMF, WUKY, KPND, KKCR, KRSH, KLCC, KOTO, WERU and WRRW are among the many Triple A stations that have played Chandelier.
A resident of Manhattan’s East Village, Sage was in the UK through early August and she has shows in Fairbanks, Alaska (9/11); Talkeetna, Alaska (9/12); Seldovia, Alaska (9/14); Boise, Idaho (10/11); and Keene, New Hampshire (10/26).
CONTACT M:M Music 323.939.8206, Jeff Appleton (Marathon Entertainment) 810.797.2287 jeffappleton@marathonentertainment.biz & Jojo Gentry jojo@mpressrecords.com
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THE BITTERSWEETS
“Wreck”
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CD Goodnight, San Francisco
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LABEL Compass Records
Nashville-based The Bittersweets got started in the San Francisco area as the duo of Hannah Prater (vocals, guitar) and songwriter Chris Meyers (vocals, guitar, piano); drummer Steve Bowman joined after hearing their demos.
Meyers’ and Prater’s early self-released EP earned them a three-month run as KFOG’s Local Artist Of The Month. In fact, The Bittersweets had already been spun on KFOG before they’d played a live show and they later opened for Train before they’d released a full-length CD.
Both of Prater’s parents are music teachers and she studied vocal performance in college. Meyers first played guitar in his late teens, after he was already an accomplished jazz pianist. Bowman was the original drummer in Counting Crows and he’s also played with Third Eye Blind, Luce and others.
Goodnight, San Francisco is The Bittersweets’ second album, following their 2006 full-length debut.
Mindy Smith’s producer/sideman Lex Price produced Goodnight, San Francisco, and for the recording sessions the band was augmented by players who have backed Patty Griffin, Ben Folds, Emmylou Harris and John Prine, among others. Grammy winner Jason Lehning (Guster) mixed and played on the album.
CONTACT Jesse Stensby (Vitriol Independent Promotions) 612.871.4916 jesse@vitriolradio.com & Brad Hunt (WNS Group) 845.358.3003 bhsabres@aol.com
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BRENDAN JAMES
“Green”
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CD The Day Is Brave
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LABEL Velour/Decca Records
Derry, New Hampshire’s Brendan James began writing songs and learning piano in his sophomore year at the University of North Carolina. After graduating he moved to New York City, where he practiced on hotel pianos. “I’d dress to look like a guest at the Plaza Hotel, so I could walk in there unnoticed,” he says.
A demo got to Carly Simon, who called him to say that she couldn’t get enough of his voice and was singing his songs around the house. The two ultimately recorded a version of her song “Let The River Run” for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
His debut album, The Day Is Brave, was produced by Mikal Blue (Colbie Caillat, Five For Fighting, Augustana) and ex-Five For Fighting bassist Curt Schneider. Brendan also has a four-song digital EP out, called The Ballroom Break-In, which recently reached #5 on iTunes’ Pop chart and got James dubbed as a top singer/songwriter to watch in 2008.
KFOG, KTCZ, KWMT, WNRN, WMVY, WJCU, WFPK, Music Choice, WCBE, KRCL, WRRW, KPTL, KTBG, KBAC, XM The Loft and others have all spun Brendan, and KTCZ will have him on its upcoming Cities 97 Sampler. Meanwhile, James’ spin count at www.myspace.com/brendanjames is up over 1.9 million now.
Brendan has played with Joss Stone, Corrine Bailey Rae, Robert Cray and Keb’ Mo’, among others, and he’ll soon be playing in Bay Shore, New York (9/6).
CONTACT Louise Coogan (Decca Label Group) 212.333.8204 louise.coogan@umusic.com & Nick Attaway (Music Allies) 434.823.1030 nick@musicallies.com
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THE DUKE SPIRIT
“The Step And The Walk”
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CD Neptune
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LABEL Shangri-La Music
London, England-based The Duke Spirit—Liela Moss (vocals), Luke Ford (guitar), Dan Higgins (guitar), Toby Butler (bass) and Olly Betts (drums)—released their first single in 2003 and their first full-length CD, Cuts Across The Land, in 2005.
For their second album, Neptune, The Duke Spirit recorded with producer Chris Goss (Queens Of The Stone Age, Masters Of Reality, Kyuss) in Joshua Tree, California.
The Duke Spirit is at 800,000 spins and counting on www.myspace.com/thedukespirit.
The Duke Spirit has been seemingly everywhere of late, with highlights including performances on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Night With Conan O’Brien, the AOL Music Video Of The Day, the XBOX Artist Of The Month, an Indie Spotlight on iTunes, rave reviews in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and a TV promo for the recent NBA playoffs which featured their song “Wooden Heart” in a spot with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
CONTACT Michael Plen 310.452.1192 plen@shangrilamusic.com
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NATASHA BORZILOVA
“Don’t Stop”
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CD Cheap Escape
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LABEL Hadley Music Group
Nashville-based singer/songwriter Natasha Borzilova, a native of Obninsk, Russia, began studying classical and jazz guitar at the age of 10.
She moved to America as lead singer of the Grammy-nominated country band Bering Strait. Formed in Russia, Bering Strait released two albums in the US, they were profiled on 60 Minutes and they were the subject of a documentary, The Ballad Of Bering Strait.
In 2006, Bering Strait disbanded, giving Natasha the opportunity to explore a solo career. The result is her first solo CD, Cheap Escape.
Cheap Escape, which has been played by WRRW, KFAN, KDNK, KVNF, WSGE, KCLC, KDHX, KOTO, KSMF, WERU, KPFT, KAXE and others, features 11 tracks written or co-written by Borzilova, who also handled the production chores.
“Sometimes a voice is so striking, emotional, and timeless that it doesn’t matter what language the singer is singing to appreciate it. This was the case when I first heard Natasha singing a folk song in her native Russian. When combined with meaningful, introspective, and intimately personal lyrics like those on Cheap Escape, the result is music with undeniable depth and substance. One can only hope there is more where this came from.” —Luke Wooten, Grammy-winning engineer
CONTACT David Avery (Powderfinger Promotions) 800.356.1155, ext. 234 david@powderfingerpromo.com & Kathy Anderson 615.321.2070 kanderson@hadleymusicgroup.com
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COURTNEY FAIRCHILD
“London”
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CD tbd
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LABEL Stanley Recordings LLC
“London” is the first taste of Courtney Fairchild’s still-in-the-works fourth CD. Quit, the 2007 offering from the Dallas-born Philadelphia transplant, was played on WXPN, WUWM, WUMB, WRRW, WMIR, WVIA, KRCL, KUNV, WMSV, KAXE, WPYA, WSGE and others.
WXPN’s Helen Leicht recently featured Fairchild as the Philly Local Pick Of The Day (http://wxpn.blogspot.com/search?q=courtney+fairchild). In her blog, Leicht wrote that “Courtney Fairchild's latest release, Quit, evokes powerful emotion through honest lyrics about love and friendship.”
Fairchild will soon be part of the Girls Rock Philly Camp, a girls-only, week-long “school of rock” for Philly area girls ages 9-17.
Courtney is again working with producer John Would, the onetime Warren Zevon guitarist. When he’s not busy providing background music for CBS’s Swingtown and HBO’s True Blood, or recording with his own band, Yortoise, Would produced Quit and plays guitar in Fairchild’s band, The Stone Hand Tortillas.
Courtney and The Stone Hand Tortillas have been busy touring the Northeast, including a show with Jonah Smith in Philadelphia. Upcoming dates include Freeland, MD (9/13).
CONTACT Jeff Silberman 215.465.6732 jeff1@stanleyrecordings.com & J.B. Brenner (The J.B. Brenner Company) 805.777.7999 jb@jbbrenner.com
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THE BREAK AND REPAIR METHOD
“You Won’t Be Able To Be Sad”
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CD Milk The Bee
ON SALE 9/16
LABEL Bluhammock Music
WEB www.myspace.com/thebreakandrepairmethod
Milk The Bee is the title of The Break And Repair Method’s debut CD, which was co-produced by Greg Collins (U2, Gwen Stefani) and recorded at various studios around Los Angeles.
Technically, it is also Matchbox Twenty drummer Paul Doucette’s solo debut, although Paul’s multi-instrumentalist Matchbox band mate Matt Beck helped out, along with Doucette's wife, Moon Unit Zappa, and musical friends and colleagues who have collectively recorded and played with Paul McCartney, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Augustana, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Bonham and Air .
Referring to Milk The Bee, Doucette says, “When I first came up with the title, it was from a place of pure frustration. It seemed a futile thing to do: You make a record and, really, what's the point? It's like milking a bee. People actually do milk bees. I didn't know that.”
The Break And Repair Method has 106,000 spins at www.myspace.com/thebreakandrepairmethod.
CONTACT Drew Murray 212.239.3440 drew@bluhammock.com
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TREVOR MENEAR
“Reason To Leave”
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CD Introducing Trevor Menear
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LABEL Shangri-La Music
Chicago’s Trevor Menear was just two when he got his first drum set, but he was more interested in his father’s guitars. At age seven he discovered Nirvana. “I just remember listening to that guitar and I was like, ‘I have got to learn to play the guitar,’” Menear says. By the time he was in 4th grade he was fronting his first band, called Moon Bubble.
Trevor played in bands throughout his adolescence, and when it came time for college he chose the University of Tennessee from among three music scholarship offers; after just one semester he realized his true education would come in clubs, not the classroom.
Introducing Trevor Menear is his first full-length offering, but Trevor’s version of John Lennon’s “John Sinclair” was featured as a bonus track on the digital and American Express versions of last year’s Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur.
His self-produced debut features well-known guests Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow, K.D. Lang, Beck, Brian Wilson), Rami Jaffee of The Wallflowers, David Leach (Ben Harper), Tony Llorens (B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and Grammy-winner Grey DeLisle.
Still in his early 20s, Trevor is developing a reputation as a guitar slinger, with Groupeez magazine calling him “the next guitar legend on the verge of greatness” and France’s CROSSroads magazine saying that his playing is “on par with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jonny Lang.”
CONTACT Michael Plen 310.452.1192 plen@shangrilamusic.com
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ROCKY SHAW
“Broken”
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CD No Doubt
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LABEL Old Pants Publishing
WEB www.oldpants.com
Phyllis “Rocky” Shaw grew up in a military family and traveled for most of her childhood, finally settling in Colorado Springs.
She studied art at three universities—Colorado State, West Texas State and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Though she’s a talented painter, Shaw used her art to deny her true passion—music— for years. A “closet writer” since her early 20s, she didn’t take a career in music seriously until her mid-30s.
Following the untimely death of her husband, a close friend nicknamed her “Rocky” and it stuck.
No Doubt is Rocky Shaw’s first album and features all original material; she has performed extensively in the Colorado Springs area as well as Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi. Other songs from No Doubt have appeared on A Taste Of Triple A #s 39 and 42.
CONTACT Rob Case 719.632.0227 rob@crlr.net
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INARA GEORGE WITH VAN DYKE PARKS
“Accidental”
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CD An Invitation
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LABEL Everloving Records
WEB www.myspace.com/inarageorge
Although Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Inara George’s father passed away when she was five, life finds her following dad’s musical path; her father, the late Lowell George, founded and fronted Little Feat before succumbing to a heart attack in 1979.
In addition to her solo recording career (which began with the release of 2004’s All Rise), Inara is also the singer for The Bird And The Bee, and she used to front Merrick.
Inara can also be heard on the Grey’s Anatomy, Walk Hard and Sex And The City soundtracks, the new Beck album, and Bird And The Bee’s iTouch commercial, while the music player at www.myspace.com/inarageorge has just passed the 603,000 spins mark.
For An Invitation, Inara collaborated with her father’s onetime best friend, Van Dyke Parks, calling upon the composer/arranger to come up with orchestral arrangements for the entire album.
Van Dyke Parks has been one of the music industry’s “best kept secrets” since the mid-’60s, when he co-wrote The Beach Boys’ Smile with Brian Wilson and began a long relationship with Warner Bros. Records (he was instrumental in setting up the label’s audio/visual department, one of the earliest to film promotional videos). He has arranged and/or played on records for U2, Randy Newman, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Keith Moon, T Bone Burnett, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, The Everly Brothers, The Thrills and many, many more.
CONTACT Hannah Carlen (Spectre Entertainment Group) 503.790.9000 hannah@spectremusic.com, Wayne Greene 323.953.0075, ext. 203 wayne@everloving.com & Courtney Knopf 323.953.0075, ext. 207 courtney@everloving.com
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BALDWIN DRIVE
“Big Picture”
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CD Orange & Black
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LABEL Zip Records/RED Distribution
Baldwin Drive is the pseudonym for New Yorker Joe “Joey Pajamas” Chiofalo, who started out as a session player before doing a couple of ’80s albums and tours as the keyboardist with Australian rockers The Saints.
Next up for Joe was a stint playing keys and accordion with Mary Lee's Corvette, where he met Smash Palace guitarist/MLC producer/guitarist/co-writer Stephen Butler.
In 2006 Chiofalo had enough original songs written to make his own debut album so he enlisted Butler to produce.
With Chiofalo on keys and Butler on guitar they made half of Orange & Black with bassist Fran Smith Jr. (The Hooters) and studio drummer Greg DiDonato, and the other half with a former band mate of Chiofalo’s, Aaron Brooks, on drums.
Joe Chiofalo wrote the anthem for the local arena football team, the New York City Hawks.
CONTACT Ray Paul (Permanent Press Radio Promotion) 585.764.0150 raypaul@permanentpress.net & Art Herman 415.348.8426 ziprecords@earthlink.net
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EG KIGHT
“It’s Hot In Here”
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CD It’s Hot In Here
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LABEL M.C. Records
WEB www.egkight.com
Singer/songwriter EG Kight was born and raised in Dublin, Georgia, in a musical environment. By the time she was four, EG was singing solos at her church, and by 15 she was performing at civic events and festivals.
She wrote her first song at 16, and by the late ’80s she was appearing regularly on The Nashville Network’s “Nashville Now” and performing onstage with country legends like George Jones and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name a few.
In 1995, EG heard Koko Taylor for the first time; since then the blues have been Kight’s guiding light, beginning with the release of her first CD in 1997. “It’s Hot In Here” is the title track from her fifth studio album, which is already being played at WUTC.
EG has earned three W.C. Handy nominations and she’s had two of her songs recorded by her idol, Koko Taylor. Another one of her songs, “Let The Healing Begin,” made it to the final round of the International Songwriting Competition.
Kight has shared the stage with such notables as Taj Mahal, Delbert McClinton, Phoebe Snow, Merle Haggard and Little Feat over the past year, and she has upcoming shows (including several festival appearances) scheduled in Jacksonville Beach, Florida (9/13), and Cincinnati (9/20).
CONTACT Mark Carpentieri 631.754.8725 mc@mc-records.com & Catherine Mannarino 631.754.8725 catherine@mc-records.com
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LILY HOLBROOK
“Apocalypse Kiss”
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CD Slow Burn
ON SALE 9/23
LABEL Alive Experience
WEB www.myspace.com/lilyholbrook
Born and raised in Boston, Lily Holbrook attended a local college where she studied art and music, but her first love was always performing live.
Lily would spend her spare time busking around Beantown, playing live in open markets, subway and bus terminals (where she sold 20,000 CDs), and developing a reputation, one that got her a slot on the city’s Women's Independent Music Show and featured in the “rockumentary” Playing For Change, which has been shown on the IFC and Sundance channels.
In 2000, she released her debut CD, Running From The Sky, followed in 2005 by Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt. She has been working on a new album, Slow Burn, which will be out in September.
Lily just opened for Brian Wilson at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom in July, she performed on the Main Stage at the All Points West festival (along with Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Duffy and more) in New Jersey on 8/9, and she played at Dave Matthews Band’s Stand Up For A Cure Concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 9/10.
Lily has more than 102,000 spins at www.myspace.com/lilyholbrook.
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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DAVE STEWART & HIS ROCK FABULOUS ORCHESTRA
“American Prayer” (radio edit)
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CD The Dave Stewart Songbook Volume One
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LABEL Surfdog/Weapons Of Mass Entertainment
Singer/songwriter/producer/guitarist Dave Stewart first gained notoriety as a member of The Tourists, the British band that he and Annie Lennox were in before the pair sold over 75 million records with Eurythmics.
Although he and Lennox have continued to work together sporadically over the years, Stewart has also forged quite a reputation on his own, writing hits for (and with) such artists as Tom Petty, Mick Jagger, No Doubt, Bob Dylan, Celine Dion and Ringo Starr, to name a few.
The Dave Stewart Songbook Volume One features fresh recordings, with an orchestra, of some of Dave’s most well-known compositions. The CD will include a hard-cover, glossy book with a “behind the music” chapter dedicated to each song and photos of Dave’s collaborators during the original recording sessions.
Over the years, Dave has played onstage with everyone from U2, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan (who describes Dave as both an “explosive musician” and “a fearless innovator”).
“This isn’t so much a look back but a new beginning,” says Stewart. “When stuff has been put away for a while and you dust it off, you often see something you’ve never seen before. And before you know it, you’re on the road with a 30-piece orchestra!” He’s got dates in Minneapolis (9/16); New York City (9/18); Glenside, Pennsylvania (9/19); Westbury, New York (9/20); and Washington, DC (9/21).
CONTACT Scott Seine 760.944.8000 scott@surfdog.com & Bob Laul (Serious Bob) 212.580.3314 seriousbob@nyc.rr.com
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STARFISH AND COFFEE
“Tragicomedy”
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CD Starfish And Coffee
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LABEL Independent
WEB www.mystarfishandcoffee.com
Longtime Collective Soul lead guitarist Ross Childress returns as the singer, main songwriter, producer and guitarist of Starfish And Coffee.
Childress, who played on Collective Soul’s first five albums, co-wrote “The World I Know” and his guitar work was synonymous with all their ’90s hits.
Starfish And Coffee, who recorded their debut CD live in a small cabin in the Chattahoochee Mountains, got their start playing at a charity gig as The Ross Childress Experience.
The band is rounded out by Ross’s lifelong friends and fellow Atlanta-area players Andrew Carter on guitar, Bo Bentley on bass and Thomas Michael on drums.
In recent years Childress has been working on several projects, including a 2005 CD with Econoline Crush’s Trevor Hurst. Together Childress and Hurst produced and wrote over 40 songs, four of which are included on Starfish And Coffee. “Tragicomedy” was written by Childress alone.
CONTACT Paul Loggins (Loggins Promotion) 310.325.2800 promo@logginspromotion.com & Jim Webb 678.612.6372 booking@mystarfishandcoffee.com
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PETER BRADLEY ADAMS
“I’ll Forget You”
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CD Leavetaking
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LABEL Sarathan Records
Peter Bradley Adams, who was simply Peter Adams when he was in Eastmountainsouth, is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He’s logged more than 292,000 spins on www.myspace.com/peterbradleyadams.
Eastmountainsouth’s 2003 self-titled CD spent 11 weeks at #1 on the Non-Comm chart and it featured “You Dance,” a #1 Triple A radio hit; in 2007 Adams digitally released a solo acoustic version of “You Dance.”
His music has appeared in more than 30 films and TV shows in the US, and XM The Loft named Adams “Notable New Artist of The Year” in 2006.
Leavetaking, the follow-up to Adams’ 2006 debut solo effort, Gather Up, was produced by Peter and multi-instrumentalist Lex Price (who has also produced Mindy Smith and co-produced one tune on Gather Up).
The word leavetaking comes from the line, “He's always been drawn to the weather of leavetaking,” from the Mark Strand poem titled The View. “The word ‘leavetaking’ resonates with me on many levels,” Peter says. “It's a theme you hear in so many traditional songs—some of them traveling songs, or gospel songs, or love songs—they've got that old longing in them that I'm really drawn to.”
CONTACT Marc Ratner (Sarathan/Mishara Music Mgmt) 207.236.4833 marcrescue@aol.com