New one hour special features the legendary life and music of Janis Joplin, and her tragic death while making what became her landmark album, Pearl.

Premiere Date: April 13. Signup now with online form below. Download links and CD distribution dates will be confirmed soon.

Music. Mostly from Pearl Sessions and Big Brother Live at the Carousel 1968 reissues. Album, live, demo and outtake versions of her signature hits like “Me & Bobby McGee,” “Move Over,” “Down on Me,” “Piece of My Heart” and more.

Other Content. Interviews with many of Janis Joplin’s family, friends and collaborators. Laura Joplin, Sam Andrews, Jorma Kaukonen, Holly George-Warren and others to be confirmed soon.

Program Delivery. Download or CD. Download links posted soon.

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Janis Joplin’s music is celebrated with previously unreleased Big Brother & The Holding Company live album and the deluxe, expanded Pearl Sessions reissue.

Live at the  Carousel 1968 – Big Brother & the Holding Company. Previously unreleased live album in stores March 13.  14 tracks include Joplin’s best songs from the Big Brother years – Piece of My Heart, Down on Me, Ball & Chain, Summertime and more.  Recorded live in concert June 1968 by legendary soundman Owsley Stanley.  Track list below, more details here.

The Pearl Session – Janis Joplin. Expanded reissue of Joplin’s final album with bonus disc filled with newly discovered studio outtakes, live performances, mono 45 mixes and other sonic rarities.  In stores April 17 from Legacy Recordings.  Track list below, more details here.

Request CD giveaways. Completing the form below signs you up for both titles that will ship about a month apart from each other.

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PBS Great Performances TV special premieres Jan 27 – great time to consider new or repeat broadcasts of the Duets II radio special.

PBS Premiere Date. Fri 1/27 9pm in most markets. Check local listings for most accurate information.  Confirmed broadcast dates and times will posted here soon.  More details are on the pbs website. DVD of this program hits stores 2/21.

Also timely for tour dates and Grammys. See schedule below with PAC and Casino venues in select markets Feb-June. The Duets II album is up for three Grammys on 3/12 – Pop Duo/Group Performance (with Amy Winehouse), Traditional Pop Album and Instrumental Arrangement (Queen Latifah track)

Music/Interview. The brand new duet recordings and interviews with many of the artists involved – Lady Gaga (pictured right with Bennett), John Mayer, Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Michael Buble and more.  TV and radio specials both share similar content.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. See radio special download links below or at radiosho.ws/links

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New 2-cd set features vintage Warren Haynes Christmas Jam live sets from Gov’t Mule, John Hiatt & the Goners, Bob Weir & Friends, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Moe. and more

In stores 12/2 from Evil Teen Records. CDs shipped to radio 11/18, please contact me if you need one.

Sample tracks. Click play buttons to hear an epic, ten-minute Memphis in the Meantime by John Hiatt & the Goners, featuring Warren Haynes. Widespread Panic’s Climb to Safety by Jerry Joseph and Dave Schools. Shake Your Hips by Robert Randolph, also with Warren.  You can also check out this video trailer.

Full band lineup. In order of appearance.  Warren Haynes, Sons of Ralph, Jerry Joseph & Dave Schools, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Moe., John Hiatt & the Goners, Bob Weir & Friends (with DJ Logic), Gov’t Mule.  Haynes sits in at least once with all of them and many guests are featured on the Gov’t Mule tracks.  Full track list and press release below.

All Xmas Jam concerts and “Benefit Concert” releases benefit Habitat for Humanity in Asheville, NC. The sold-out 23rd annual show features Warren and Gov’t Mule with Los Lobos, Phil Lesh & Friends, Bela Fleck and others 12/10/2011 at the Asheville, NC Civic Center.  More info online at xmasjam.com.

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Two hour special features the stories behind the band, its classic albums and tracks, as told by Gilmour, Waters, Mason, Wright and their music.

Signup now with online form below! Can be scheduled as one two-hour block, two separate episodes, or your choice of two one-hour episodes.  Same show has also been announced by FMQB.

Premiere Date. Wed Nov 23. Great for any between Thanksgiving and the end of the year.

Music/Interview. Exclusive David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and the late Richard Wright interviews recorded at various points of their careers.  Plus all time classics like “Money,” “Another Brick in the Wall,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Learning to Fly,” “See Emily Play” and many others.

Program Delivery. Download only. Download links will be posted as soon as they are confirmed.

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Exclusive band member interviews and lots of great music tell the story of Some Girls (1978) – its timeless radio classics, deep album tracks and previously unreleased songs from the Some Girls sessions.

Signup now with online form below!

Premiere Date. Fri Dec 9. Also great to air around Keith Richards’ birthday (12/18) or between Xmas and New Years.

Music/Interview. Exclusive Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood interviews recorded in Fall 2011.  Some Girls classics like “Miss You,” “Beast of Burden” and “Shattered,” fan favorite deep cuts and previously unreleased tracks from it’s sessions now compiled on the Some Girls: Deluxe Edition. Full press release is at the bottom of this post.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. Download links and CD ship dates will be posted as soon as they are confirmed.

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One hour radio special with exclusive interview looks back on the themes he explored throughout his 20th century recordings.

Premiere Date. Friday Oct 14 – Great for Wynton’s 50th birthday on Oct 18. Also great anytime this fall, especially Thanksgiving and the winter holiday season.

Music/Interview. Exclusive Wynton Marsalis interview, music highlights from all points from his career.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. Download links from PRX, Dropbox, Airplay Direct and other services will be posted below in early August when ready.  Continue below for special signup form and more details to be added as they are confirmed.

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One hour special behind the making of Tony Bennett’s latest collection of duets with top artists from many genres.

Premiere Date. Friday Sep 16. Also great anytime this fall, especially Thanksgiving and the winter holiday season.  Separate modules with artist comments introducing full songs available for each track.

Music/Interview. The brand new duet recordings and interview with many of the artists involved.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. Download links from PRX, Dropbox, Airplay Direct and other services will be posted below in early August when ready.  Continue below for special signup form and more details to be added as they are confirmed.

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New Specials and other programming tools for Fall 2011 celebrate landmark birthdays and anniversaries of Sting (60), Paul Simon (70), Tony Bennett (85), Wynton Marsalis (50), Ben Folds (45), Pearl Jam (20) and Hank Williams (88).

Use form below to sign up now! Artist links with more on each project will be live soon.

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New album by Mississippi blues artist with extensive Summer/Fall 2011 tour schedule

Imagine classic delta blues mixed with the soulful, raspy rock vocals of Terence Trent D’Arby or Corey Glover of Living Color.  Winner of the 2010 International Blues Challenge.

Sample tracks & downloads. Dreamin’, Make that Monkey Jump, and the ballad Weight of the World.  Preview and download broadcast quality tracks now from Airplay Direct.

As heard on many great stations coast to coast. KKJZ, WFPK, WEMU, KRVM, WMSE, WXPN, Mississippi Public Radio, American Blues Network, KKFI, WXMX, KTHR, WOWE and more.

Extensive fall/summer 2011 tour schedule. Available for station visits and other events around dates posted below.

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New one-hour radio special Elvis Presley special presents the story behind his self-titled, 1956 RCA debut album – great for Elvis Week 2011 premieres.

Produced by Joyride Media. The latest in a line of their highly acclaimed Elvis specials.

Premiere Date. Fri Aug 12. Will definitely be available by downloads to air during Elvis week.  The larger CD mailing may need to ship later, but in time for Labor Day.

Interviews/Music. The 1956 classics, newly released outtakes and rare Elvis & Col. Parker interviews. Includes content from the Young Man with the Big Beat box set in stores 9/27 from Legacy Recordings.  Great way to preview this weeks before release.  Read full box set press release here.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. Download links from PRX, Dropbox, Airplay Direct and other services will be posted below in early August when ready.  Continue below for special signup form and more details to be added as they are confirmed.

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two-disc deluxe edition in stores 8/20 from UMe

New one-hour radio special looks back on the 10th anniversary of the O Brother Where Art Thou film and multi-platinum, “Album of the Year” Grammy-winning soundtrack that helped define the last decade of Americana music.

Hosted by journalist David Wild, produced by Jon Grimson. With new and archival interviews, previously released and unreleased music.

Premiere Date. Fri Aug 19. Before Aug 23 street date of Lost Highway’s new two-disc deluxe reissue and Sep 2011 release of blu-ray dvd.

Interviews/Music. New and archival interviews with T-Bone Burnett and others featured on soundtrack. Music includes original soundtrack classics like Man of Constant Sorrow, Down to the River and Pray and others, plus  newly available rarities like the Kossoy Sisters I’ll Fly Away (in movie but not on soundtrack) and more confirmed soon.

Program Delivery. CDs or downloads both available. Download links from PRX, Dropbox, Airplay Direct and other services will be posted below in early August when ready.  Continue below for special signup form and more details to be added as they are confirmed.

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Latest album by bluesy, Canadian surf rockers finally sees a US release in time for June 2011 West Coast tour.

Protect Your Own features a great range of summertime tracks. The slide-heavy Cursed, acoustic ballad Young & Able, funky Bring Me Down and more.  Great for aaa, blues, alt or other specialty radio shows.

From the fertile Victoria, BC music scene. Also includes Hot Hot Heat, Be Good Tanyas, Destroyer, Japandroids, Black Mountain, Jon & Roy and many more.

West Coast US dates this June – more tba. Check out schedule below for June dates in SF, LA and Oregon.  Please contact me about any studio visits.

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The 2011 edition of the Experience Hendrix concert tour, presented by Fender guitars, launches in May with an all-star lineup of musical greats paying homage to the abiding genius of Jimi Hendrix.

Eight dates May 20-29 2011. Las Vegas, Orange County, Phoenix, Tucson, Santa Rosa, Reno, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo.  See below for more details and the Hendrix reissue giveaway request form.

Current all-star lineup. Billy Cox, Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, David Hidalgo & Cesar Rosas [Los Lobos], Keb’ Mo, Eric Johnson, North Mississippi All Stars, Brad Whitford [Aerosmith], Living Colour, Ernie Isley, Chris Layton [Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble], Indigenous and more.

Click links below to display the giveaway request form and upcoming tour schedule.

HENDRIX GIVEAWAY REQUEST FORM

EXPERIENCE HENDRIX MAY 2011 TOUR DATES

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Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi present the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Debut album Revelator in stores June 7. on Sony Masterworks.

Bound for Glory and Learn How to Love. First Tracks available for airplay.  Click play buttons to hear or download both in a zip file.

11-piece band. Feautres Oteil Burbridge – bass (Allman Brothers Band), keyboardist Kofi Burbridge and singer Mike Mattison (Derek Trucks Band), drummers JJ Johnson (John Mayer) and Tyler Greenwell (Susan Tedeschi, Codetalkers), horns and more.

Live video clips. Learn How to Love performed on the Tonight Show on Mon 5/16/2011. (I can’t embed it here so click to watch on Youtube). Very high quality 40-minute live show from Atlanta 4/9/11 is below, courtesy of Jim Beam.

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Celebrate what would have been Roy Orbison’s 75th birthday with new programming tools and promos for the new Monument Singles Collection.

Great for April 23-24 weekend feature. Or any other time this spring that works for your station.

Monument Singles Collection Giveaways. Pristine mono mixes of  Roy’s 1960-64 A-sides on one disc for the first time – “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Only the Lonely,” “In Dreams” and many more.  Sign up with form below.

“Roy Orbison 75″ on-air/online audio features. Ten new 75-second modules mixing song clips, Roy’s own words and comments by Bruce Springsteen, Robin Gibb, and producer Fred Foster.  Produced by Joyride Media.   Also use form to request these, one-hour specials or on-air interview opportunities.

Podcasts for station websites. Flash widget and RSS feed available soon with the new features and existing Orbison features from Legacy Podcasts.

Please also check out what’s available for Robert Johnson’s 100th birthday or Paul Simon’s new album

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New free one-hour special to honor 100 years of Robert Johnson.  Produced by Joyride Media.

Great for 100th birthday on May 8. Also good replacement program for Memorial Day weekend  blues shows, or Black Music Month this June.

Brand-new exclusive interviews & Johnson’s legendary songs. Comments by guitarists Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule), Corey Harris, Johnson’s grandson David Johnson, blues historians Peter Guralinick and Scott Barretta. Track list will be posted soon.

Last Fair Deal Gone Down. The program is free to air and it’s a great way to salute one of America’s most mysterious musical legend.  What else do you need to know?  Use form below to sign up for this and other specials.
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Brad and Andrew Barr of The Slip set to release self-titled Barr Brothers album this spring!

Montreal-based quartet let by virtuoso brothers Brad (guitar) and Andrew (drums) also features Sarah Page (harp) and multi-instrumentalist Andres Vial.

Check out the soundcloud players below or the Lord I Just Can’t Keep From Crying and Give the Devil Back His Heart videos.  For more details, read their bio below or visit the Barr Brothers Website.

The Barr Brothers – Lord I Just Can’t Keep From Crying

The Slip – Even Rats
Great track from their former band’s 2006 album, Eisenhower.

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"Low Country Blues" album in stores 1/18

New free one-hour special available Dec 2010 to preview new album of blues classics.

Available Dec 2010 to preview new album in stores Jan 18. Great for Gregg’s 12/8 birthday or any holiday season fill-in slots for rare opportunity to preview new Rounder album a month before release.

Blues album produced by T-Bone Burnett. Low Country Blues has 11 classics and one original (track list below) with a killer band – Gregg Allman (vocals, organ).  Dr John (piano).  Doyle Bramhall II (guitar).  Dennis Crouch (acoustic bass).  Jay Bellerose (drums).

Intimate interview plus 9 great tracks. Exclusive chat with Gregg includes how the album was made, deep insights into how the blues shaped his career and how he continues despite recent health-related setbacks.  Produced/hosted by Brad Paul.

Use sign up form below. Check back for more details, cue sheets, program download links and updated tour schedules.

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Promotions and radio special available for the latest collection of previously unreleased gems from the Jimi Hendrix vaults in stores Nov 16, 2010

15-track Single CD Version. Features the best previously unreleased outtakes, alt. versions, instrumental jams and more from the deluxe 4CD/1DVD West Coast Seattle Boy box set.  Request giveaways with form below.

One Hour Radio special. Highlights the stories behind many of these rare gems with comments by many big-name Hendrix collaborators and fans. Great for Thanksgiving around Jimi’s 11/27 birthday.  Use form to sign up for this show, or request this with our other great programs at radiosho.ws.  More details here below form.

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