{"id":1341,"date":"2017-01-19T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2017-05-23T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:13:00","slug":"roger-street-friedmans-shoot-the-moon-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/roger-street-friedmans-shoot-the-moon-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Street Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;Shoot The Moon&#8221; out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>January 19, 2017<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN\u2019S\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>SHOOT THE MOON<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OUT NOW<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>&#8230;sets the stage for the eclectic effort that meshes Americana,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>folk, blues should and more.<\/em>\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211; Matt Inman\/Relix<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>He writes with the wisdom of someone who\u2019s seen<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>his share of living,\u00a0and actually was savvy enough<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>to take notes along the way&#8230; So here it is:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>what will surely be one of the best albums<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>of this still brand new year&#8211;delivered right on time.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211; Bill Bentley\/Bentley\u2019s Bandstand\/The Morton Report<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>One moment he\u2019s turning out harmonically rich Paul Simon-esque<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>art-folk;\u00a0the next he\u2019s digging into the kind of good \u2018n\u2019 greasy<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Americana groove John Hiatt would kill for.<\/em>\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211; Jim Allen\/Culture Sonar<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Shoot The Moon<\/i>\u00a0is Roger Street Friedman\u2019s just-completed album, out January 13, 2017, from The Playroom Records.\u00a0<i>Shoot The Moon<\/i>, co-produced by the artist and Felix McTeigue (co-writer of Florida Georgia Line\u2019s #1 hit \u201cAnything Goes\u201d and Americana chart topper and Grammy-nominated \u201cWreck You\u201d by Lori McKenna), is the result of a concerted woodshedding effort following Friedman\u2019s debut album, 2014\u2019s critically lauded\u00a0<i>The Waiting Sky<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Friedman, now 54, lives in a small Long Island town and re-started his career in music in 2010 following the loss of his parents and the birth of his daughter. He told\u00a0<i>USA Today<\/i>, \u201cIt\u2019s never too late to make a change, to take your life in a direction that brings you joy and closer to realizing your dreams.\u201d \u00a0With\u00a0<i>Shoot The Moon<\/i>, he\u2019s making up for lost time in a very palpable way. \u201cIt was scary,\u201d he says of his decision to make music his full time pursuit, adding, \u201cI had gotten to a point where, to be myself, I had to give music everything I had.\u201d And he\u2019s done just that with the new project, most of which he premiered live on his recent \u201cWorld Tour Of Los Angeles.\u201d He brought his band, Frank Ferrara (guitar), Jim Toscano (drums), Matt Schneider (bass) and Concetta Abatte (fiddle\/vocals) who are heard on the album, to four Southern California venues over the course of four days in connection with the YoubloomLA Music Summit and Festival.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>No Depression<\/i>\u00a0likened Friedman\u2019s sound and approach to that of Bruce Cockburn, Gordon Lightfoot and Fred Neil. The roots music website\u2019s John Apice called his a \u201cfaithfully driven melodic voice,\u201d suggesting, \u201cthis artist is someone you can explore without growing weary.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All but one of the album\u2019s 13 tracks were written or co-written by the artist who was joined by collaborators including Al Anderson, the veteran of NRBQ who has penned hit songs for Carlene Carter, Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood and Tim McGraw, among others. \u00a0Also contributing to the songwriting process were co-producer McTeigue and Francis Galluccio who has written for Celine Dion, Danielle Bollinger, Destiny\u2019s Child, Marc Anthony, Mandy Moore and others. \u00a0The album\u2019s sole cover is a version of \u201cParadise,\u201d written by John Prine, an artist for whom Friedman has great abiding admiration. \u00a0Of his songs, Friedman comments, \u201cI strive to tell stories, to make them as real and truthful as I can by finding the poetry in ordinary moments.\u201d\u00a0<i>Shoot The Moon<\/i>\u00a0exudes an album-oriented cohesion which is to say there is a broad spectrum of feelings and genres threaded together by Friedman\u2019s well-developed aesthetic sense. His stylistic calling card is both earthy and urbane, spanning pastoral folk, euphoric New Orleans-style horn driven pop-rock, alt-country, blues, and R&amp;B.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Additional musicians on\u00a0<i>Shoot The Moon<\/i>\u00a0include Amy Helm, Levon Helm\u2019s brilliantly gifted daughter, Jason Crosby who has worked with the Grateful Dead\u2019s Phil Lesh as well as Susan Tedeschi, Olabelle\u2019s Fiona McBain, Ari Hest, Antigone Rising\u2019s Nini Camps, Rich Hinman who work with Sara Bareilles, and The Mastersons. \u00a0Horn players include Jay Collins (Gregg Allman, David Bowie), Mac Gollehon (Rolling Stones) and Baron Raymonde (Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart). Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, Pixies, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Dinosaur Jr., Morphine, Juliana Hatfield) mixed the album at his Camp Street Studios, formerly Fort Apache, in Boston.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/rogerstreetfriedman.com\/\" data-type=\"url\">http:\/\/rogerstreetfriedman.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2017 \u00a0 ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN\u2019S\u00a0 SHOOT THE MOON OUT NOW \u201c&#8230;sets the stage for the eclectic effort that meshes Americana, folk, blues should and more.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Matt Inman\/Relix \u201cHe writes with the wisdom of someone who\u2019s seen his share of living,\u00a0and actually was savvy enough to take notes along the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/roger-street-friedmans-shoot-the-moon-out-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roger Street Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;Shoot The Moon&#8221; out now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}