I am sending this press release out to media in your area and I thought you guys might be interested.
J.B. Beverley and The Wayward Drifters are Taking Country Back:
Fueled By RAM Radio
Long gone by are the days of Loretta Lynn carting her LPs to radio DJs across Kentucky;
long gone by are the days of Hank Williams Sr. on the Louisiana Hayride; and long gone by
are the days of driving cross-country on a gas budget of less than a thousand dollars.
J.B. Beverley and The Wayward Drifters are a unique American music experience that you
are sure to remember. The sound is rooted in traditional honky-tonk, but there is an old
Jump Blues style present, as well as some hints of bluegrass and rockabilly. Flanked by a
giant upright bass, fiddle, banjo, dobro, and, sometimes, electric lead guitar, J.B.
churns out incredible original songs, as well as classics by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers,
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and others. His style embodies and echoes the blues-driven
spirit of working class America and has a very timeless, traditional sound.
RAM Radio co-founders Roy Ryan, Pam McCluskey, and Sam Sattler established RAM Radio in
September 2003. The station evolved from the three friends shared musical tastes and
mainstream radio frustrations. "At first, we figured [RAM Radio] would be a good way for
us to listen to each others record collections," Sattler says. "We also did it out of
frustration with FM country radio stations. We hoped RAM Radio would be something that
others who were experiencing the same frustrations would enjoy."
RAM Radio's playlist spans more than 80 years, with songs dating back to the 1920s.
Listeners hear many different styles of country music, including bluegrass, honky-tonk,
western swing and Americana. The station counters mainstream country radio's
genre-blurring sound by streaming approximately 14,000 hours of authentic country music
to listeners daily. This playlist includes J.B. Beverley & the Wayward Drifters who had 3
songs hit the number one slot in RAM's listener-voted top 30 charts in the last year.
J.B. and The Wayward Drifters regionally toured the central east coast for about four
years, laying a foundation of fans and building a cult following. In 2004 they released a
self-produced, self-distributed CD entitled /Highball/. The CD was very well received,
and as a result, the band embarked upon its first national tour in the spring of 2005.
The self-funded, self-booked American Highball Tour concluded as a success in May 2005,
and immediately the band went back to work on returning to the road. That summer, J.B.
and the boys joined friend Hank Williams III for a seven-week cross-country tour, further
solidifying their fan base and generating even more interest. In the fall of 2005, J.B.
and The Wayward Drifters recorded their first official full-length CD, entitled /Dark Bar
And A Juke Box/. The CD is slated to come out on J.B.'s label, Helltrain Records, on May
1st.
When RAM Radio and The Wayward Drifters got together, an incomparable relationship was
born. By cross-promoting both mediums, it was a win-win situation. RAM agreed to back The
Wayward Drifters' 2006 Dark Bar and a Jukebox Tour by way of gas cards (incredibly
valuable to any touring band), food gift certificates, an AAA membership, and more. In
turn J.B. Beverley and The Wayward Drifters will spread the gospel of REAL country music
across the country and back, adorning the side of their tour van with the giant "Fueled
By RAM Radio" logo, passing out free t-shirts and magnets, and telling audiences from
L.A. to Key West about the Country Music Revolution online.
Promoting RAM won't be hard for J.B.: "The Fascist cowards that run the FM dials are on
borrowed time... just like the days of hard-working artists having to abandon all hope of
broadcast exposure are dying as well. Ram Radio and other internet-based radio programs
offer the listening audience an alternative to the processed, assembly-line music that
Clear Channel and others have decided to prance around the FM dials.
It is a day-by-day revolution, but it is indeed growing. I am thankful to RAM Radio for
giving REAL country listeners not only a dose of the 'Founding Fathers,' but also us guys
who are out here doing it from the ground up a chance to make the same fans.
The 'machine' can call those clowns in the Musik Mafia outlaws, but it is bands like us,
and entities like RAM Radio that are TRULY going against the grain, and building a
grassroots following of REAL, everyday people. When it is said and done, RAM Radio (and
other internet-based stations) will have honored the circle laid down by the pioneers,
and helped to preserve an important slice of American culture. Can those corporate
lackeys behind all that FM pandering say that? Hell no! They might be counting their
money, but we'll soon be counting their bodies! Lock and load, folks."
J.B. Beverley and The Wayward Drifters will be performing at Radio Cafe on 4/29/06.
For more information on RAM Radio, please visit: www.ramradio.net.
<http://www.ramradio.net.>
For more information on J.B. Beverley and The Wayward Drifters, please visit
www.waywarddrifters.com. <http://www.waywarddrifters.com.>
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