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Yesterday evening, at a fairly crowded Maximedia Studios–which is way the eff out by Farmer’s Branch–recent Atlantic Records signees Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights performed an hour-and-a-half set that, in the coming months, should be released as a live EP release to help preview the band’s major label debut–just another push in the big marketing plan currently being set in motion by the band’s handlers as they determine the best way to package this mainstream accessible band to a national audience in 2009.
This year’s earlier release, Hot Trottin’, if a bit under-mixed not-so-greatly mixed in post-production, offers good insight into the ’70s-inspired type of blues rock/pop sound the band is aiming for. Band management was kind enough to allow us to pass a couple tracks from that disc along for your consumption…
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If the major label marketing push–a crap shoot in this day and age, really–works, I’d say we can expect VH1 to be telling us that we “oughta know” JT&TNL come, oh, August of next year. —Pete Freedman
