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FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/TODD BRODGINSKI/ANGELA VILLANUEVA
CHAS SANDFORD
TO RELEASE SECOND ALBUM
"WAG MORE, BARK LESS" 1/11/11
ARTISTS INCLUDING STEVIE NICKS, TINA TURNER, ROD STEWERT, JOHN WAITE, ROGER DALTREY AND SAMMY HAGAR
HAVE COVERED HIS SONGS
SANDFORD'S debut album for Elektra Records included songs that were covered by John Waite, Sammy Hagar, Rick Springfield and Sheila B. Devotion. When three of the songs he was writing for a planned second album turned into hits–a #1 hit for Waite ("Missing You") and Top 5 singles for both Stevie Nicks ("Talk to Me") and Chicago ("What Kind of Man Would I Be")–SANDFORD found himself one of the most in-demand producer/songwriters in the business, garnering 12 ASCAP "Most Performed Song" awards and a total of over more than 6,750,000 airplays alone for "Missing You", making it one of the most played songs of all time. His songs have been recorded by Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Melanie, Roger Daltrey, Millie Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Alison Krauss and David Wilcox. He has also produced a wide range of artists, including Chicago, Stevie Nicks, Roger Daltrey, Rod Stewart, Berlin, Gene Loves Jezebel, House of Schock and Don Johnson, whose cast of guest musicians included Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Ron Wood and Dickey Betts.
The Atlanta-born SANDFORD has enlisted an all-star line-up of the city's best musicians for WAG MORE, BARK LESS, anchored by bassist Davis Santos (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, John Fogerty, Billy Joel, Elton John, Phoebe Snow, James Taylor) and drummer Nick Buda (Taylor Swift, Jewel, Edwin McCain, Mindy Smith, Randy Houser), with cameos by friends and colleagues including Chicago's Bill Champlin and James Matchack, Survivor's Jim Peterik, recording artist/slide guitarist Lee Roy Parnell and singer/songwriter Nicole Witt on background vocals.
For SANDFORD, WAG MORE BARK LESS, serves as a personal renewal, taking his past experiences, and moving on to the next level, with flow and feel, from beginning to end, that makes it sound like albums did in the classic rock era. "Let Love Back in This House" has a folk-rock jangle that evokes the likes of the Eagles, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Fleetwood Mac, in its tale of longing and sorrow amid ghostly memories.
It was the beginning of an outpouring of material that eventually became a cathartic album that helped SANDFORD get the past few years off his chest. "The Best of Times," "Someday Susan," "I Believed," "Broken" and "My Favorite Regret" look back with a combination of disappointment, disbelief and a desire to move on. SANDFORD proves he can rock out pretty damn good also with the "Witchy Woman" -meets-Led Zeppelin "Waiting for the Sun," the tongue-in-cheek rock of "Love Can Really Mess You Up" ("One day I wanna marry you/Next day I wanna bury you/What the hell am I gonna do?") and the soaring, Springsteen-esque socio-political "Changing" bring the album's sentiments full circle, from feeling sorry for oneself to getting out and doing something about it. On the other hand, the affecting "Let Love Back in This House," "Whenever I See You Smile" and the strong set-piece "Because of You" (written with Tyrone Noonan from the Australian band George) all show that SANDFORD'S optimism hasn't been snuffed completely.
SANDFORD will appear next at the "Blast On The Bay" Songwriters' Festival in Port St Joe, FL October 15-17 and is planning tour dates in conjunction with the 1/11/11 release of the new album.
For press information, contact MSO:
818-380-0400
Todd Brodginski ext. 239 toddb@msopr.com
Angela Villanueva ext. 232 avillanueva@msopr.com
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