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I hope that everyone is having a great summer!! So hard to believe we're on the downside of 2007 - crazy!! Lot's has been going on in the Wanted camp, so here's a quick update...

-Gregg Bell
Wanted Management
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News and Notes:

KATRINA CARLSON is finally back!! The first single from her new "Here and Now" disc is a remake of the Howard Jones' track "No One Is To Blame." Katrina's cover of the 1 hit features Howard on vocals and piano, and was most added at AC radio last week!! Billboard Magazine called the song "utterly charming" and "feels primed to fuel Carlson's first top 10 (hit) at the format." "Here and Now" will be available on iTunes in late July and in stores on August 14th. In other Katrina news, "Feel For Me" was picked up by the N-Network for use on their new show "South of Nowhere." The song will be featured in the August 10th premiere, as well as in the second episode airing on August 17th. Look for Kat's brand new website to launch soon, and you can still subscribe to the "making of an album" podcast - to subscribe go to: http://www.kataphonicrecords.com/podcast.

SUSAN MARSHALL continues to keep herself very busy!! In addition to continuing work on her brand new album, Susan was in the studio recently with Maynard James Keenan (TOOL, A Perfect Circle) to recorded vocals for his new "Puscifer" record. The record should be out by the end of the year. Susan is also a part of a couple records currently on the racks: "Unbreakable" by the Afghan Whigs and Katherine McPhee's self titled debut. She appears on several songs on the Whig's new "Unbreakable" compilation, including the new track "I'm A Soldier." Susan also co-wrote "Better Off Alone" from Katherine McPhee's album.

KIM MONROE recently picked up her second Sammy for Best Pop Album for her release "New Reality." The Sammy's are Syracuse's version of the Grammy Awards, to honor and recognize talent from the central New York Area. This is Kim's second Sammy win, she also picked up a win in 2005 when her debut, "Kim Monroe," won for Best R&B recording. Kim will be performing at this year's Music is Art festival in Buffalo on August 11th at 7:00 PM at the Erie County Fairgrounds.

GOOD CHARAMEL RECORDS will soon be bringing you Amungus. Stay tuned...

MYSPACE.COM: Wanted Management is up on MySpace: www.myspace.com/wantedmanagement. The site is always being updated with music, news and tour dates, so check it out and become a friend is you haven't already!

COMING SOON:
Katrina Carlson - "Here and Now" (August 14th)

NOW AVAILABLE:
The Juliet Dagger - "The Pez EP" and "Turn Up The Death"
Last Conservative - "Pretty New Things" and "On To The Next One"
Susan Marshall - "Honeymouth" and "Firefly"
Kim Monroe - "Kim Monroe" and "New Reality"
Music Is Hope - Compilation to benefit Summet Educational Resources fight against autism
Terry Sullivan - "TheErthmoovsaroundTheSun"

QUESTIONS, REQUESTS, COMPLAINTS ETC:
Gregg Bell - Wanted Management
Phone: 213.435.2355
E-Mail: greggbell04@yahoo.com
Web: www.myspace.com/wantedmanagement

THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Unbreakable: A Retrospective 1990-2006 [Rhino]
[Fans of the Twilight Singers, soul, '90s alt rock, and life-changing music take note.]

If you missed the Afghan Whigs in the '90s, now is the time to discover them. Produced by bandleader/singer/guitarist Greg Dulli and bassist John Curley, Unbreakable marries 16 songs from the Whigs' impressive catalog with two new songs recorded in 2006 with guitarist Rick McCollum and 1965-era drummer Michael Horrigan. Written shortly before the band's 2001 split, "Magazine" easily could have been found on the Twilight Singers' mellow lounge debut. "I'm a Solider" is soulful and chorus-driven like much of the Whigs' 1998 swan song, 1965, and finds Dulli sharing vocal duties with Susan Marshall, who contributed to that album's "Uptown Again" and "John the Baptist" (both are included). Compiling tracks for an album-oriented group with an ardent fanbase is no easy task, but this CD covers most of the singles and creative high points of a band that came close but never quite made it - by major label standards, anyway. The legacy preserved here is proof of another kind of success: a lifetime of expressive music; Dulli's frank, relatable words; and incomparable, unforgettable songs cherished by fans for generations. The exclusion of a companion DVD with concert highlights and a music video archive is the only real oversight.
-Natasha Padilla

Success is quite a juggling act.

After a couple of false starts, versatile singer's career blossoms
April 27, 2007

Lucinda Williams needs help. Just moments into her sold-out show at the Rose Theatre, and the alt-country star is fighting off a coughing fit and struggling to sing. After several false starts and abrupt endings, she ushers on her friend, Memphis chanteuse Susan Marshall, from the wings to sing harmony. Marshall's presence seems to comfort Williams who quickly recovers and powers through an engaging set.

Marshall can certainly empathize with Williams' plight; she's just recovered from a case of pneumonia which had silenced her singing voice and sidelined her since December.

The health troubles were the only blight on an otherwise triumphant year. She spent much of 2006 touring the world as part of the Memphis Rhythm Band, supporting singer Cat Power. She also landed a song she co-wrote, "Better Off Alone," on American Idol runner-up Katherine McPhee's album, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts in January.

Marshall, who performs at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music on Monday, has also been busy recording her third solo album, tentatively titled Little Red.

A follow-up to her 2005 effort, Firefly, the new record is being co-produced by Marshall's husband, engineer Jeff Powell (Big Star, B.B. King), and British musician Henry Olsen -- former bassist for Primal Scream and Beth Orton. Olsen met Powell and Marshall in the early '90s, during the making of Primal Scream's Give Out But Don't Give Up. Olsen and Marshall have since co-written several songs for her first two albums as well.

Work on Little Red began in August during a break in the Cat Power tour. Marshall, Powell and her bandmates, keyboardist Rick Steff and guitarist Dave Cousar, went to London to track material at Olsen's studio. "Henry is such a fan of Memphis soul music, but he's also very British at the same time," says Marshall. "He comes up with all this crazy stuff -- beat-box dance rhythms, different textures and sounds. He's used to chopping stuff up and adding loops and everything. So it's kind of got a different feel than my other albums. We're meshing that production with an updated take on Memphis soul."

The album includes appearances by a handful of guests: guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart plays on a cover of the Walter Egan chestnut "Magnet and Steel" while Marshall duets with Lucinda Williams on an Al Green-styled take of the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down."

Work on Little Red will wrap up at Ardent Studios in the next couple months, and Marshall hopes to have the album out by late August or early September on her own Honey Mouth label.

Born in Utah, Marshall arrived in Memphis in the late '70s, attending Germantown High School, where she was a standout at the school's music program. She won, but ultimately passed up, a Grace Moore Memorial Scholarship at University of Tennessee. She spent a year at the International University in San Diego before dropping out of college and heading to New York City. She stayed there six years, doing off Broadway with the Light Opera of Manhattan. Frustrated with the strictures of musical theater, she moved back to Memphis in the summer of 1989.

She soon ran into guitarist Gwin Spencer and songwriter JoBeth Dunn, then just launching their rock-soul group Mother Station. "I went to Gwin's house to give her vocal lessons," recalls Marshall. "She and Jo Beth looked at each other and went in the other room to talk. When they came back they went, 'Do you want to be the lead singer for this band?' I figured, why not? What have I got to lose."

Marshall joined and the group eventually signed to major label imprint EastWest, releasing the critically acclaimed Brand New Bag album in 1994. But conflicts with the label -- which was soon folded into parent company Elektra -- doomed the band's career. The group broke up in 1995.

The end of the band hit Marshall hard. "I think I laid on the couch for a year and cried, I was so depressed," she says. "Out of sheer necessity to find a way to emote, I taught myself how to play guitar and piano and started writing songs."

At the urging of husband Powell she also began performing again, guesting occasionally with Jimmy Davis' Riverbluff Clan and "that really started me singing with other people," she says.

Since then, Marshall has become an in-demand session and live backing vocalist. She toured extensively with the Afghan Whigs and was tapped to support Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, on her Memphis-recorded album The Greatest and subsequent tour last year.

Over the years Marshall has sung on a range of albums -- from Christian artist Todd Agnew to pop star Lenny Kravitz to Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd -- and displayed a talent for adapting her voice to almost any style or situation. "Since I have a musical theater background, I have experience doing characters, which helps," says Marshall. "I love different genres of music, and those are like different characters to me. Each has its own special coloring."

Given a schedule that includes studio sessions, cutting jingles and working on her solo career, Marshall is adept at multi-tasking. "More often than not, Memphis artists -- because so many are independent -- have to be jack of all trades," she says. "They have to balance going out supporting other people, doing commercial work and doing their own thing. I wish that I could have just one thing to do. But I've got to keep a bunch of plates in the air constantly just to make it work. So far, it seems to be."

-- Bob Mehr

U of M audience sweet to country song stylist
April 24, 2007
Critics have spilt more ink and lavished more praise on Lucinda Williams in the decade since the release of her 1998 classic Car Wheels on a Gravel Road than perhaps any other contemporary musician.

Hailed as "America's Best Songwriter" in 2002 by Time magazine, she's been lauded for carrying on the lyrical legacy of her father, U.S. poet laureate Miller Williams, and variously hailed as the female incarnate of Hank Williams, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards.

While "Lu," a music biz late-bloomer with a notorious perfectionist streak, has made for good copy, in truth, both of her post-Car Wheels efforts -- 2001's Essence and 2003's World Without Tears -- witnessed a precipitous drop in quality.

As is her wont, Williams has taken her own sweet time, almost four years, to follow up her last studio disc. On the recently released West -- just her eighth album since 1979 -- she offers up a subtle stylistic shift. Co-produced by Williams and Hal Wilner (Elvis Costello, Lou Reed), the record has a lighter, breezier quality in both the writing and singing than anything Williams has previously committed to tape.

Williams has carried that feeling into her tour in support of the new album, which made a stop at the Michael Rose Theatre on the University of Memphis campus Monday night. With a sold-out crowd of 900-plus watching, Williams struggled early on, cutting her first two songs short, as she battled a coughing fit.

The sympathetic crowd ("I'm glad y'all are sweet," noted Williams) stuck with her through several false starts. She finally seemed to steady herself on the suicide story "Pineola" and her cause was aided further when she brought out her friend, local soul/blues diva Susan Marshall, to harmonize on "Concrete and Barbed Wire" and the unreleased gem "Jailhouse Tears."

Williams, a Louisiana native, seemed to tailor her set list to the Memphis crowd. "I'm gonna do a bunch of my Southern roots songs," she noted, before essaying the nostalgic "Bus to Baton Rouge" and the swampy narrative "Lake Charles."

For some -- including this reviewer -- Williams' intentionally simple lyrics and drawled-to-the-point-of-caricature singing can be grating at times, but the light touch of her three-piece backing band redeemed her throughout the evening.

Led by guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Doug Pettibone, and the rhythm section of drummer Butch Norton and bassist David Sutton, the group segued seamlessly between styles, adding an impressive palette of textures and colors to the tunes.

-- Bob Mehr, 529-2517

Bell works to unveil new CD

Gregg Bell is nearing the end of his yearly trip home for the holidays, and his eyes get real wide when he thinks about returning to Los Angeles.

January will be busy as Bell's label, Kataphonic Records, prepares to release the CD "Here and Now" by Katrina Carlson.

Bell gave me a sneak preview of the follow-up to the "Untucked" CD and its first single "I Know You By Heart," which helped singer-songwriter Carlson find national success.

Produced by Ron Aniello, the CD is slated for an April 24 release.

Interesting tracks from the get-go include the first single, "No One Is to Blame," a cover of a Howard Jones tune. Bell, who also is Carlson's manager, says he's negotiating to get Jones to perform on the cut, too.

The title song sounds sweet, ringing with honest lyrics that seem to come from Carlson's heart. She recently had a baby, and sings about appreciating each moment of life.

"The First to Say Goodbye" paints a darker picture, while "Be the One" is bright pop that brings another Katrina to mind _ Katrina and the Waves.

Bell, a 1986 graduate of Christian Brothers Academy and 1989 grad of Ithaca College, says he envisions the ballad "Enough" as the closer.

Central New York fans may remember Carlson from her summer shows with Benny Mardones at Hooligan's in Liverpool in 2003 and 2004.

If you'd like to link to Kataphonic Records' site, click here.

If you'd like to link to Carlson's site, click here.

Keep listening,

Mark Bialczak
mbialczak@syracuse.com

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It's been a while, sorry about that. But that means we've been busy - and that's never a bad thing!!

Hope that this finds you all well...

-Gregg Bell
Wanted Management
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News and Notes:

SUSAN MARSHALL played her first headlining concert in London at Bush Hall in August. The show was a huge success and served as the UK CD release party for Susan's "Firefly" disc. While in the UK, Susan also did some recording for her upcoming record with Henry Olsen, formerly of Primal Scream. Susan just returned from Europe where she was touring with Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band. Cat Power and the band will be heading out for some more North American dates in the US and Canada at the end of the month - check the Wanted Management myspace page for dates and info. In other Susan news, she was in the studio with Greg Dulli and the Afghan Whigs in October recording two new tracks for their upcoming collection "Unbreakable," due on Rhino next spring. Susan also has a song that she co-wrote with Austin Carroll up for inclusion on Katherine McPhee's new disc due out this fall. **THIS JUST IN** Susan's performance with Cat Power that was taped for Austin City Limits will air on December 30th on PBS; the Raconteurs will also appear on the show.

LAST CONSERVATIVE dropped their latest, "Pretty New Things" through KOCH Entertainment on August 22nd. The new disc was produced by Robby Takac and Last Conservative, and the band spent a good chunk of the summer and early fall on the road with the Goo Goo Dolls and the Counting Crows. Watch for the band on the east coast with Over It in January. For upcoming tour dates visit myspace.com/lastconservative.com. To view a promotional e-card click: http://www.lastconservative .com/ecard/.

KATRINA CARLSON is just wrapping up the recording of her third disc with producer Ron Aniello (Lifehouse, Barenaked Ladies, Guster) - and we want you to come along for the ride. If you've ever wondered what it was like to make a record, from songwriting and selecting the tracks to entering the studio to picking singles and packaging - you need to sign up for our "Making Of A Record" podcast. To check out a preview and for subscription details go to: http://www.kataphonicrecords.com/podcast. Watch for a new CD from Katrina this spring!! In the meantime, listen for Kat's original holiday track "You Are Christmas" on a radio station near you!

KIM MONROE held her CD release party for her new disc, "New Reality," at the Red House in Syracuse. The event was taped and aired on TK99's "Soundcheck with Dave Frisina." In other Kim news - she and her band will be made two different trips to New York City to play at the Lion's Den, and took part in the Midtown Music Conference in Cincinnati where she garnered rave reviews. If you still have not heard Kim's "New Reality" CD drop me a line and I'll get you a copy - great stuff!!

THE JULIET DAGGER recently released "The Pez EP," featuring two brand new songs that will appear in the upcoming Pez DVD due out this winter. In addition to the new tracks "Sooper" and "Saturday Morning," the EP also features tracks from the band's debut "Turn Up The Death" as well as videos and exclusive Pez animation. Erin Dagger just made a special acoustic appearance at the Pez convention in Myrtle Beach last month. New record coming in 2007!!

KATAPHONIC RECORDS is looking for help! The label is looking to hire an employee to work out of the Westwood office and join the team for the upcoming Katrina Carlson release. The ideal candidate should have experience in publicity and marketing specific to the music industry. It's a small operation, so you have the opportunity to do a lot of different things - it's never boring! For more information contact Gregg Bell, contact info below.

MYSPACE.COM: Wanted Management is up on MySpace: www.myspace.com/wantedmanagement. The site is always being updated with music, news and tour dates, so check it out and become a friend is you haven't already!

NOW AVAILABLE:
The Juliet Dagger - "The Pez EP"
Last Conservative - "Pretty New Things"
Susan Marshall - "Honeymouth" & "Firefly"
Kim Monroe - "New Reality"
Music Is Hope - Compilation to benefit Summet Educational Resources fight against autism
Terry Sullivan - "TheErthmoovsaroundTheSun"

QUESTIONS, REQUESTS, COMPLAINTS ETC:
Gregg Bell - Wanted Management
Phone: 213.435.2355
E-Mail: greggbell04@yahoo.com
Web: www.myspace.com/wantedmanagement

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Follow along as Adult Contemporary artist Katrina Carlson records her third disc, the follow-up to her very successful "Untucked" CD.

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