HOMEGROWN ROCKER 1/30/11 (LZZY HALE OF HALESTORM)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the January 30 edition of Rocky 99 and Rocky 104.9's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 9 to 11 PM during football season on WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com) and WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com).

This week, we aired a phone conversation with Halestorm lead singer Lzzy Hale. Lzzy and her brother, Arejay, first appeared on the program as youngsters in 1999, and were frequent flyer guests on the show through their signing with Atlantic Records in 2005. Lzzy updated us on the latest Halestorm happenings, and shared her thoughts on life on the road as a touring band, how life has changed for them since hooking up with a major record label, and their appreciation of the music scene and fans in Pennsylvania who helped pave the way to their current success. Along the way, we heard tracks from Halestorm’s new live CD/DVD set Live In Philly 2010. We also updated Local Music News, and paid tribute to the late Henrik Ostergaard of Dirty Looks (who passed away last Thursday) with a 1989 Dirty Looks song for this week’s “Local Music Flashback.” And we reviewed The Electric Boa’s Candy Coated Cyanide CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner.”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

SLACKER THEORY – “Shake”
HALESTORM – “It’s Not You” (live)
THE GOOD SEEDS – “Poor Me”
HALESTORM – “Innocence” (live)
CANDLELIGHT RED – “Closer”
HALESTORM – “Bet U Wish U Had Me Back” (live)

HOUR TWO:

EAST COAST TURNAROUND – “Knockin’ on 7’s Door”
HALESTORM – “Familiar Taste of Poison” (live)
THE ELECTRIC BOA – “Tweakerville Blues”
HALESTORM – “Nothing to Do with Love” (live)
DIRTY LOOKS – “Nobody Rides for Free” (1989, Local Music Flashback)
HALESTORM – “I Get Off” (live)

Because the Pittsburgh Steelers have made it to the Big Dance, the Super Bowl, there will not be a “Homegrown Rocker” program next Sunday night, February 6, as both Rocky 99 and Rocky 104.9 will be airing the big game. When the program returns on Sunday, February 13, it will return to the 8 to 10 PM time slot, and we will be joined in the studio by rising Altoona modern rockers The Good Seeds. We will meet the band members and learn their story, and hear recorded tracks from them. The group may also bring acoustic instruments and play a song or two live as well. We’ll update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for a “Local Music Flashback,” and review another new local/regional CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner.” The Good Seeds join us when the “Homegrown Rocker” returns on Sunday, February 13 from 8 to 10 PM!

Forthcoming guests and specials include:

FEB. 27 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE RECAP
MARCH 6 – RAIN MUST FALL
MARCH 13 – MILLENNIUM CONTEST WINNER
MARCH 27 – STERLING KOCH
APRIL 3 – MATT OTIS
APRIL 10 – EAST COAST TURNAROUND
MAY 1 – “DAY OF ROCK” PREVIEW

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.net). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Homegrown Rocker" updates, the online 'zine publication "The Final Cut," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Homegrown Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WRKY Radio, One Forever Drive, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM. You can also email me with inquiries about the show at profjp@rocky1049.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News…

One of the state’s most prominent frontmen is gone. Dirty Looks singer Henrik Ostergaard passed away on Thursday morning in Erie at the age of 47. The results of the autopsy to determine the cause of his death are pending; the Erie County coroner said he died of natural causes while under hospice care. Born in Denmark, Henrik started Dirty Looks in 1985, and the group was signed to Atlantic Records after three independent albums and an EP. Henrik fronted several side projects during the past two decades, such as Taar, Rumbledog and Burning Orange. Henrik and Dirty Looks last year released a new album, I.C.U.. Henrik leaves behind two surviving children.

Williamsport-based rockers Candlelight Red have signed an indie label record deal. The group signed with Washington, DC-based indie label Imagen Records, whose stable includes East Coast names such as Namesake and Lloyd Dobler Effect. The label will remix and remaster Candlelight Red’s single, “Closer,” to be released to radio stations late this month; and the group is recording their full-length debut with noted producer David Ivory for a springtime release. Candlelight Red opens for Buckcherry and Hellyeah February 19 at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia.

A song co-written by Pittsburgh’s Bill Deasy is being used as the theme for a new television sitcom on CMT. The tune "This is My Day," which Bill wrote with Odie Blackmon, is featured in the new show Working Class, which debuted this past Friday night.

This past November’s reunion show of Bill Deasy’s former band, The Gathering Field, was recorded and will be issued as a two-CD live set this spring. That show, which took place November 20 at Diesel in Pittsburgh, reunited The Gathering Field onstage for the first time in a decade.