BETTE SMITH SKYROCKETS TO #35 ON AMERICANA SINGLES CHART AND #35 ON AMERICANA ALBUM CHART, HITS TOP 5 ON ROOTS MUSIC REPORTS R&B AND SOUL CHARTS

BIG LEGAL MESS ROCK & ROLL/SOUL ARTIST SIGNS WITH NEIL O’BRIEN, SHARES NEW MUSIC VIDEO

 

Big Legal Mess (Fat Possum imprint) soul and rock & roll singer Bette Smith has skyrocketed to #35 on the Americana Album Chart and #35 on the Americana Singles Chart at radio. On The Roots Music Report, Smith’s album ‘Jetlagger’ hit the top 5 on both its Top 50 R&B Album Chart and Top 50 Soul Album Chart.

 

Click here for the Bette Smith mini-documentary.

 

She’s earned praise from NPR, Billboard, WNYC, Paste Magazine, MOJO, American Songwriter, and Bust Magazine. Here’s her brand new music video for “Durty Hustlin’” (OK to share).

 

Neil O’Brien Entertainment represents Smith international bookings.

KEVIN GORDON PLOTS SEPTEMBER SHOWS AT NYC’S ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL, NASHVILLE’S CITY WINERY AS NPR PREVIEWS NEW ALBUM ‘LONG GONE TIME’ (CROWVILLE MEDIA / SEPTEMBER 4)

NEW ALBUM 2ND MOST ADDED ON AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION RADIO CHART THIS WEEK

Kevin Gordon – the southern poet and rock & roller who has been covered by Levon Helm, Keith Richards, and Todd Snider – will plan a series of shows around the release of ‘Long Gone Time’ (Crowville Media / September 4), including NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall September 6 and Nashville’s City Winery on September 14.

Meanwhile, ‘Long Gone Time’ was the second most added record on the American Music Assocation radio chart this week.

NPR World Café previewed the album by playing two tracks, with David Dye saying, “Pay attention to his lyrics: After a punk rock youth in Monroe, La., he went on to graduate with a master's from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Gordon lives in Nashville now, and he can't shake his love of punk, poetry or Southern blues.”

August 22 – WorkPlay – Birmingham, AL
September 4 – Ashland Coffee & Tea – Ashland, VA
September 5 – Elk Creek Café – Millheim, PA
September 6 – Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 – New York, NY
September 8 – World Café Live, Upstairs – Philadelphia, PA
September 14 – City Winery, Main Stage – Nashville, TN
September 20 – The Basement East – Nashville, TN (short set)
October 2 – WDVX Blue Plate Special – Knoxville, TN
October 6 – Atwood’s – Cambridge, MA
October 7 – Norey’s – Newport, RI
October 10 – Nelson Odeon – Cazenovia, NY
October 24 – Landhaven – Barto, PA

EILEN JEWELL CONFIRMS WNYC LEONARD LOPATE PERFORMANCE/CHAT JULY 13 AND CITY WINERY SHOW JULY 14

‘SUNDOWN OVER GHOST TOWN’ (SIGNATURE SOUNDS) STAYS STRONG AT #7 ON AMERICANA RADIO CHART FOLLOWING NBC NIGHTLY NEWS APPEARANCE

Eilen Jewell – the Idaho-born Americana songwriter who was recently profiled by NPR Morning Edition – has confirmed a concert at City Winery July 14 and a performance/chat on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate on July 13. Jewell sold out a City Winery concert February, 2015. Meanwhile, 'Sundown Over Ghost Town' (Signature Sounds) has stayed strong at #7 on the Americana Music Association radio chart. NBC Nightly News aired a segment on Apple Music Monday night and included an interview with Eilen. Here’s NPR’s profile: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/27/409698844/eilen-jewell-the-half-broke-horse-of-idaho-returns-home

Jewell has earned spotlights from Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, American Songwriter, CMT Edge, The Boot, and beyond. Her vivid portraits of life and culture in Idaho have earned her best-of-career notice. Most recently, The Boston Globe called  'Sundown Over Ghost Town' “remarkable.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer said, "She's always been one of the most arresting of Americana singer-songwriters, and here she weds vivid imagery to similarly spare and evocative music."

WHO: Signature Sounds artist Eilen Jewell and her band
WHAT: Headlining NYC concert
WHERE: City Winery
WHEN: 8pm, July 14, 2015
TICKETS: http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/tickets/eilenjewell071415.html

“ARTIST TO KEEP YOUR EYES ON” (THE BOOT) EILEN JEWELL MOST ADDED AT AMERICANA RADIO FOR WEEK OF APRIL 27, 2ND MOST ADDED AT AAA RADIO

According to the Americana Music Association, Eilen Jewell’s ‘Sundown Over Ghost Town’ (May 26 / Signature Sounds) is the most-added album of this week. In addition, the album is the second most-added at AAA radio behind only the Alabama Shakes.

Meanwhile, last week, The Boot compared her to Kacey Musgraves, calling her music "poignant" and proclaiming that she "is an artist to keep your eyes on" in a premiere of the song “Needle & Thread."

“Needle & Thread” describes the town where Eilen’s dad lives, where her family land is located. She says, “On one of the maps I have, it’s listed as a ghost town, but there are more than 400 residents of Idaho City. The town has changed very little since I was a kid. But I see it all with new eyes after having lived in Boston for nine years. It’s mostly timber, dirt and rocks. Both Idaho City and the land around it have certainly seen better days. It was once the capitol of the Northwest — during the Gold Rush — but the miners took most of the gold out of it, and then it burned down twice.”

The themes are universal, says Eilen, explaining, “This song deals with the love/hate duality surrounding the concept of home. More so than anything else in life, home has a way of patching us together and messing us up.”

SIGNATURE SOUNDS SCORES FOUR IN THE AMERICANA RADIO CHART TOP 100 FOR 2014, WITH LAKE STREET DIVE AT #7

LAKE STREET DIVE SHARES VIDEO FROM ‘SIGNATURE SOUNDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION: RARITIES FROM THE SECOND DECADE’

The Americana Music Association’s top one hundred airplay chart for 2014 has four Signature Sounds albums on it. Lake Street Dive’s ‘Bad Self Portraits’ came in at number seven. The others were Peter Mulvey’s ‘Silver Ladder,’ Zoe Muth’s ‘World Of Strangers,’ and Chris Smither’s ‘Still On The Levee.’

Signature Sounds is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this winter with a concert series, a tour, and celebration at next year’s Green River Festival. On March 3, the storied label will release ‘Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From The Second Decade’ featuring thirteen unreleased tracks, eighteen tracks in total from the likes of Lake Street Dive, Crooked Still, Eilen Jewell, Chris Smither, and others.

Lake Street Dive has shared its in-the-studio video of “What I’m Doing Here,” from the ‘Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From The Second Decade’:

CORB LUND CONFIRMS DECEMBER TOUR DATES, SOME WITH HAYES CARLL

WNYC SOUNDCHECK TAPES SEGMENT AS CMT.COM POSTS Q&A WITH CARLL AND LUND

'CABIN FEVER' ROCKETS TO #4 ON AMERICANA RADIO CHARTS

Fresh from taping WNYC Soundcheck on New York City's NPR affiliate, which will air in late November or early December, Corb Lund has announced tours runs of the west and the south in December. The latter dates are a co-headlining bill with Hayes Carll, with whom he duets on "Bible on the Dash." The two are also the subject of a Q&A on CMT Edge.

Meanwhile, 'Cabin Fever' has climbed the Americana radio charts, hitting a new peak of #4 this month.

Hayes Carll said, "Corb's actually lived the shit we all want to sing about, and writes the stories we all wish we'd lived."

CORB LUND DECEMBER TOUR DATES

Dec 14 – Sam Bonds Garage – Eugene, OR
Dec 15 – The Treehouse – Bainbridge, WA
Dec 16 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
Dec 18 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
Dec 27 – Revolution Music Room – Little Rock, AR (w/ Hayes Carll)
Dec 28 – House of Blues – Houston, TX (w/ Hayes Carll)
Dec 29 – Antone’s – Austin, TX (w/ Hayes Carll)
Dec 30 – Antone’s – Austin, TX (w/ Hayes Carll)
Dec 31 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX (w/ Hayes Carll)

DESCENDED FROM FOUR GENERATIONS OF ALBERTAN RANCHERS AND HAILED BY NPR, CORB LUND TO PERFORM AT HILL COUNTRY LIVE IN NYC NOV 14

LUND RISES TO #7 ON AMERICANA RADIO CHART

Corb Lund – the songwriter descended from four generations of Albertan ranchers who used to play metal and punk music – will play NYC's Hilly Country Live November 14. For his new album 'Cabin Fever,' Lund traveled to NYC, along with Austin, Las Vegas, and Alberta, to pen the sharp and often wry songs.

Amid raves from NPR, NY Times, UNCUT and others, Corb scored a personal best with a #13 debut on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and a #60 debut on the Billboard Indie Chart for his "breakthrough" (Washington Post) album 'Cabin Fever.' The album also debuted at #1 on Billboard's Canadian Top 200 albums chart. NPR said, "Impressive... great songs... Lund finds glory in tough work, spotting characters most people would overlook, and celebrating them with colorful sketches... Corb Lund's ironic humor and keen sense of American culture is similar to Hayes Carll."

Meanwhile, Lund has risen to #7 on the Americana radio charts.

Goth girls to survivalists, bovines to bibles, antique pistols to vintage motorcycles: Lund’s songcraft covers it all. Most recently, CMT.com just posted his new music video to the heartbreaking "September."

WHO: New West artist Corb Lund

WHAT: NYC full band performance

WHEN: 9:30pm, November 14, 2012

WHERE: Hill Country Live, 30 West 26th Street, (212) 255-4544

TICKETS: $15 in advance or at the door via Hill Country Live box office