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WAYLON JENNINGS

WAYLON JENNINGS: NEVER SAY DIE

One-hour radio documentary pays tribute to American legend Waylon Jennings, tells the story behind his final concert at Nashville's Ryman Theatre, and features many musical highlights of that historic night.

• Host: Laura Cantrell
• Producer: Joyride Media (Paul Chuffo, Joshua Jackson)
• Length: 54 or 59 minutes with breaks for local spots.
• Broadcast Window: Begins July 20 2007
• Terms: Available to all US-based radio broadcasters at no cost
• Promotion: 0:30 promo spot included
• Contact: Andy Cahn (212-833-6279) or Eric Molk (212-833-5389)

DISTRIBUTION:

• CD: Mails to stations on Monday, July 23 with new albums listed below
• Request a CD
• PLAY MPE: Download 54-minute show as 7-tracks.
• PRX: Click here for the 59-minute version

By 2000, Waylon Jennings had over 40 years of experience on stage. He started as the bassist for Buddy Holly in the late 1950s, and over the years, Waylon continually grew as a musician and bandleader.

Health problems took their toll on Waylon in the 1990s. He suffered from emphysema, diabetes and had a mild stroke. Despite all that, Waylon wanted nothing more than to get back on stage. In early 2000, he put together a band with many of his favorite musicians, called it The Waymore Blues Band, and booked a show at Nashville's Ryman Theatre.

Waylon many not have known that it would be one of his last concerts. He may not have even cared. His only concern was to pull out all the stops and make this just as memorable as every other time he took the stage.

Throughout this hour, we'll hear many musical highlights of this historic evening, and comments from many of the people who made it possible - Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Chet Atkins, Cowboy Jack Clement, Billy Joe Shaver, his wife Jessi Colter, his son, Shooter Jennings, and even Waylon himself.

Waylon's classic compositions and covers heard throughout Never Say Die include "Good Hearted Woman," "I'm a Ramblin Man" with Montgomery Gentry, "Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter, "Can't You See" and "Trouble Man."

IN STORES JULY 24, 2007:

• Waylon Jennings and the Waymore Blues Band - Never Say Die: The Final Concert Film - Live box set with the show on DVD and 2 CDs.
• The Essential Waylon Jennings
• Request copies of these CDs (also set to mail with the special on 7/23).

MONTY PYTHON RADIO SPECIAL

THE GAZILLIONTH (OR SO) MONTY PYTHON RADIO SPECIAL

A new one-hour Monty Python radio documentary hosted Keith Olbermann.

Host: Keith Olbermann
Producer: Paul Chuffo & Joshua Jackson, Joyride Media
Broadcast Window: Beings June 2007
Length: 54/59 minutes with breaks for local spots
Terms: Available to all USA-based broadcasters at no cost

Contacts:
Eric Molk, eric.molk@sonybmg.com, 212-833-5389
Andy Cahn, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com, 212-833-6279

Request this program on CD for your station

Timely for the 73rd Anniversary of the FCC on June 19, 2007

Monty Python debuted on the BBC nearly 40 years ago, and their mix of everything absurd, obscure and English has inspired generations comedians - from the professionals to the amateur line-quoters. Their skits, films and songs continue to be both poignant and funny today, whether experienced for the first or gazillionth time on TV, film, disc (plastic or vinyl), broadway or anytime a devoted fan is confronted with a cheese shop, a dead parrott or a shrubbery.

Between excerpts of their finest moments, Cast members Eric Idle, John Cleese and Terry Jones (with help from Python geek/historian Kim Howard Johnson) look back on the men, the myths, and legends behind them. Musician Mark Stewart analyzes the musical works that are equally as influential as their skits and films. Radio broadcasters Michael Berger and Jeff Prescott discuss Python's impact on concerned citizens of San Diego and the FCC. Carol Cleveland, a Python in everything but the title, adds what it's like to be a real woman.

The Gazillionth (or so) Monty Python Radio Special is hosted by television and radio personality Keith Olbermann. He can currently be seen and heard injecting Monty Python references into his coverage of news, politics and sports on The Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC), The Dan Patrick Show (ESPN Radio) and Football Night in America (NBC-TV).

Content advisories includes references to the human anatomy (bodyparts and ailments), ranging from clinical terminology from medical journals, textbooks and diagnoses, to English slang commonly featured in PBS broadcasts of classic BBC programs. Full transcripts, including song lyrics, can be provided on request.

CASH GOSPEL SPECIAL

Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace

One-hour radio documentary explores Johnny Cash's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel recordings and performances.

Host: Rodney Crowell
Producer: Joyride Media (Paul Chuffo, Joshua Jackson)
Length: 59/54 minutes with two breaks for local spots
Broadcast Window: Begins May 2007
Terms: Available to all US-based radio broadcasters at no cost
Promotion: 0:30 promo spot included on CD

Contacts:
Andy Cahn, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com, 212-833-6279
Eric Molk, eric.molk@sonybmg.com, 212-833-5389

Preview/download audio and other details online from the PRX.

Request a broadcast CD of this program.

When a young man named Johnny Cash tried to get his first record deal, he told Sam Philips of Sun Records that he was a Gospel Singer. Philips said, “No Thanks,” but that didn’t stop Cash from recording and playing gospel songs. In time, Cash took his faith a lot further. He became a biblical scholar, a religious writer and even an ordained minister.

In this one-hour radio special, we’re going to hear about the spiritual world of Johnny Cash from family and friends. Interview subjects include his son, John Carter Cash, musicians Marty Stuart and Larry Gatlin and biographers Patrick Carr and Dave Urbanski.

Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace also contains more than a dozen of Cash’s best known gospel songs, including both traditional and original compositions. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Here Was a Man,” How Great Thou Art” and many more works are featured alongside stories of how Cash was inspired to record these timeless spirituals.

SLY RADIO SPECIAL

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR

One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left behind.

Host: Ben Fong-Torres
Producer: Paul Chuffo & Joshua Jackson, Joyride Media
Broadcast Window: Beings May 2007
Length: 54/59 minutes with breaks for local spots
Terms: Available to all USA-based broadcasters at no cost

Contacts:
Eric Molk, 212-833-5389, eric.molk@sonybmg.com
Andy Cahn, 212-833-6279, andy.cahn@sonybmg.com

Preview/download audio online from the PRX.

Request a broadcast CD of this program

Seven musicians walked on the stage, some were black, some white, some were men, some women, and all of them were dressed in bright, colorful outfits. That was Sly and the Family Stone, and for seven wild years (1967-1974), they left a mark on music and culture that continues to inspire countless musicians - both black and white. Members changed, times got rough, but Sly and the Family Stone's sound and message of love and unity still speaks to the world today.

FAMILY AFFAIR is hosted by Ben Fong-Torres, and includes a wide range of Sly & the Family Stone tracks - from the big hits ("Dance to the Music," Everyday People," and others) to deep cuts from all their albums. Some songs accentuate the points made by the many interview subjects, others speak for themselves. All of them stand up as examples of Sly Stone's "watershed point in the development of rhythm and blues," as detailed by biographer and journalist Joel Selvin.

Band members Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Greg Errico and Andy Newmark provide rarely-heard, first-hand accounts of the zeniths and nadirs of Sly Stone's universe, taking us from their family roots to their mainstream success to later sessions "surrounded by really crazy people...out there in the twilight zone." Musicians Isaac Hayes and Chuck D, however, break down how music from all those episodes influence d Sly's contemporaries as well as future generations of musicians.

PAGE McCONNELL TOUR

Here are Page McConnell's first tour dates:

5/30 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
5/31 Boston, MA - Avalon
6/1 Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
6/2 Philadelphia, PA - Fillmore (soon-to-formerly-be TLA)
6/4 New York, NY - Fillmore New York At Irving Plaza
6/5 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
6/7 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
6/8 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
6/9 Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
6/10 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
6/12 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
6/13 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
6/14 Minneapolis, MN - Pantages Theatre

More details are online here

Some recent radio features:

• NPR Weekend Edition
• NPR World Cafe
• WXPN Live at Noon
• Vermont Public Radio - Vermont Edition (4/11/07)
• WMFO (Boston)

JOSHUA BELL

Violin vituoso Joshua Bell was featured in last weekend's Washington Post magazine as part of an experiement...

No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?

Click here for the full article

Click below for the video of Joshua in the DC Metro

SKAGGS & HORNSBY UPDATE

Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby on tour in 2007

Contact us for any interview or promotion requests around these dates.

• 4/23 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC)
• 4/24 New York, NY The Concert Hall
• 5/12 Williamsburg, VA America Rocks 400th Anniv
• 6/22 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
• 6/23 Woodinville, WA Chateau Ste Michelle
• 6/24 Ridgefield, WA Clark Co. Amph
• 6/26 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery
• 8/30 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
• 10/8 San Francisco, CA Strictly Bluegrass Fest.
• 10/9 Arcata, CA Humboldt State Univ
• 10/12 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center
• 10/13 Cerritos, CA Cerritos Center
• 10/19 Newport News, VA Ferguson Center
• 10/25 New London, CT Garde Arts Center
• 10/26 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theater
• 10/27 Shippenburg, PA LUHRS Perf Arts Center

Please also check out both Bruce Hornsby's and Ricky Skaggs' own tour schedules for dates in your area.

ELVIS PRESLEY GOSPEL RADIO SPECIAL

HE TOUCHED ME: ELVIS' GOSPEL MUSIC

One-hour radio documentary about Elvis Presley's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel recordings and performances.

This program is hosted by singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell and produced by Paul Chuffo (Joyride Media) - the same team behind the acclaimed Roy Orbison, Ralph Stanley and Charlie Poole radio specials.

"Religion always played an important part of Elvis' life and quest of his purpose in life. He was a searcher of knowledge and is a much more intelligent person than has been documented in history so far." - Jerry Schilling

MANY OF THE CLASSIC IMAGES OF ELVIS PRESLEY INVOLVE SOME SORT OF HIP SHAKING AND KNEE WOBBLING. AFTER ALL, HE WAS THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL, AND WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED IN HIS SHORT LIFE CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER.

BUT ALL THROUGH HIS CAREER, THERE WAS A SECOND TRACK. ELVIS WON THREE GRAMMYS IN HIS LIFE, AND NONE OF THEM FOR ROCK AND ROLL. ALL THREE WERE FOR RELIGIOUS RECORDINGS. ELVIS SANG A LOT OF GOSPEL MUSIC, AND IN THE NEXT HOUR, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR HOW DEEP THOSE GOSPEL ROOTS RAN.

WE'RE JOINED BY LIFELONG FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE JERRY SCHILLING, JOE MOSCHEO OF THE IMPERIALS QUARTET AND GORDON STOKER OF THE JORDANAIRES.

• Host: Laura Cantrell
• Producer: Paul Chuffo (Joyride Media)
• Length: 59-min and 54-min versions available
• Terms: Avail for all US radio broadcasters at no cost
• Distribution: On CD or from PRX (click to preview or download audio)
• There are no national spots built into the program
• Broadcast window begins on Friday April 6

Song List:
(* = music bed or excerpt).

*So High
*Crying in the Chapel
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
If the Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side
*I, John
Where Could I Go But To The Lord
Milky White Way
*His Hand in Mine
Run On
*Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Peace in the Valley
*In My Father's House
He Touched Me
*Mansion on the Hill
Amazing Grace
You'll Never Walk Alone
*Somebody Bigger Than You and I
Bosom of Abraham
*How Great Thou Art

All music is also featured on the new 2-CD set Elvis Presley: Ultimate Gospel in stores now from Sony BMG Music.

MICHAEL PENN

Palms & Runes, Tarot & Tea:
A Michael Penn Collection

• In stores April 17, 2007
• 20 original, alernate, and new versions of his best known songs
• 7 previously unreleased tracks include three re-recordings
• 2005 album Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 also back in stores 4/17 with a six-track bonus live CD
• Catch Michael Penn on tour this April and May - see dates below
• Contact Greg Repicci at Sony BMG for any radio requests for CDs, interviews or promotions

Track List:

+ = unreleased, * = re-recorded, ^ alt/demo version

• Lucky One (Version One) +
• Bunker Hill * +
• Out Of My Hands
• Cupid's Got A Brand New Gun * +
• Coal
• Try ^ +
• No Myth
• Barely A Sound (Instrumental) +
• Don't Let Me Go
• All That That Implies
• Whole Truth
• Brave New World
• Me Around ^ +
• Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In) * +
• Macy Day Parade
• Figment
• Bucket Brigade
• I Can Tell
• Walter Reed
• Opening (From The Film, Melvin Goes To Dinner) +

Tour Dates:

• 4/24 - Arlington, VA - IOTA
• 4/26 - Annapolis, MD - Rams Head Tavern
• 4/27 - Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live
• 4/28 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub
• 4/30 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub
• 5/2 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
• 5/3 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall
• 5/5 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café
• 5/6 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
• 5/8 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
• 5/9 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
• 5/10 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Stage Door
• 5/11 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center

Check out two videos:

• "Walter Reed" (2005) - Directed by Thomas Horne. Michael was shot on a green screen with a Nikon D70 and composited with still photographs of L.A. and Chicago, and edited together with archival footage.


• "Try" (1997) - Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, features Phillip Seymour Hoffman, originally as a bonus feature on the Boogie Nights DVD.

SON VOLT

Son Volt's new album The Search in stores now!

"...'The Picture' supplements Farrar with Stax-like horns. It's another perfect setting, one he could (and should!) occupy for a full album." - Jesse Jarnow, Paste

• Going for AAA adds now on "The Picture" (track #2)
• npr.org - 8 new songs live in Philly on 3/30/07
• NY Times - CD review with 5-min video clip
• US Tour starts March 26 (listed below)
• Conan O'Brien - aired 3/1
• Letterman - coming on 4/17
• Contact CMG Radio Team with any Son Volt radio requests
• Click image below for classic Son Volt clips

US/Canada tour dates

3/26 The Nightlight - Bellingham, WA
3/27 Showbox - Seattle, WA
3/28 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
3/30 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
3/31 Mystic Theatre - Petaluma, CA
4/3 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
4/4 Belly Up - Solana Beach, CA
4/5 Rialto Theatre - Tucson, AZ
4/7 Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
4/9 First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
4/10 Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
4/12 Mod Club - Toronto, ONT
4/13 Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
4/14 Pearl St. - Northampton, MA
4/15 Paradise - Boston, MA
4/18 Irving Plaza - New York, NY
4/19 Mr. Small’s - Pittsburgh, PA
4/20 Headliners - Louisville, KY
4/21 The Pageant - St. Louis, MO
5/1 George’s Majestic Lounge - Fayetteville, AR
5/2 Revolution Room - Little Rock, AR
5/3 Ridglea Theater - Ft. Worth, TX
5/4 Stubb’s - Austin, TX
5/5 Floore’s Country Store - Helotes, TX
5/6 Continental Club - Houston, TX
5/8 House of Blues - New Orleans, LA
5/9 Young Ave Deli - Memphis, TN
5/10 WorkPlay - Birmingham, AL
5/11 Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
5/12 Crawfish Boil at Riverfront Park - Nashville, TN
5/14 Rhythm & Brews - Chattanooga, TN
5/15 The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
5/16 Visulite - Charlotte, NC
5/17 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
5/18 Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
5/19 BandTogether - Raleigh, NC
See more details at their online ticket site

THE CLASH

2007 marks the 30th anniversary of The Clash. Look for some new reissues and compilations later this year. In the meantime, here are some classic live performances, interviews and videos.

Contact the CMG Radio Team with any radio requests for The Clash

PAGE McCONNELL

• New CD by Phish keyboardist Page McConnell hits stores on April 17!
• Listen to "Beauty of a Broken Heart" at Page's myspace page
• Full band show at Gramercy Theatre on April 4, 2007
• Contact the CMG Radio Team for any Page McConnell radio requests
• More CD and tour details at www.pagemcconnell.com
• Click below for video EPK on the making of Page's new CD

HORNSBY & SKAGGS

• Bruce Hornsby & Ricky Skaggs - new CD of duets/collaborations in stores on March 20
• CMT Crossroads special airs 3/9 6pm, 3/12 8pm, 3/20 1pm + 11pm
• Features their cover of "Super Freak" - click below for clip
• Official press release and audio clips from Hornsby's website
• Contact the CMG Radio Team for any Hornsby/Skaggs radio requests