Terry will return to the Bob Brainen Show on WFMU, 91.1 FM, on two consecutive Saturdays, April 10 and 17, at 9:00 am. Tom will be joining him for music and conversation on a wide range of topics both days, and on the 17th they'll bring friend, musician, and Clang! recording artist P.J. O'Connell along. You can listen to the show online at www.wfmu.org.

Guitarist and songwriter Jim Stephanson, a fixture on the Washington DC music scene, releases his debut CD Say Go on Clang! on April 6. Co-produced by Jim and Terry, it features guest musicians Joey, Tom, Terry, and Steve Ferguson. Jim will join the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet on guitar for two appearances in April, at the Turning Point in Piermont NY, and Live At Drew's in Ringwood, NJ.

Orders may be placed now and will be shipped on April 6.

Don't miss the annual Three Stooges New Year's Eve Marathon on Boston's TV-38. The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet will make a special guest appearance this year.

TV38/WSBK is available throughout the United States on Dish Network direct broadcast satellite as part of a Superstation package, and is also seen in Canada on several satellite and cable outlets.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio will broadcast a live performance of The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet on Wednesday, December 30.

WAMC reaches parts of seven northeastern states:
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

Tom Ardolino's Unknown Brain, which came out in 2004 on CD in Japan only, will be released as a single disc vinyl version by Mystery Train Records in December.

"Dozens of absolutely amazing, pointless, beautiful, bizarre, one-man band, bedroom overdub masterpieces" said Roctober of the CD.

Check out Paul LaRaia's new book The Levon Helm Midnight Ramble. Terry's included with a quote and a photo from soundcheck, taken when the Quartet played the Ramble in 2008.

Howard Johnson & our friend Jody Duncan
photo by John Krucke

That's The Way I Feel Now, the Thelonious Monk tribute produced by Hal Willner in 1984, is finally going to be reissued on CD, and will include NRBQ's version of "Little Rootie Tootie" and Terry's recording of "In Walked Bud" with his hand-picked band: Roswell Rudd on trombone, Pat Patrick on alto saxophone, John Ore on bass, and Frankie Dunlop on drums.

Stay tuned for release date details.

NEW! LIVE CD by The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet
Crazy 8's

Please orders here.

1. Never Cop Out
2. There Should Be A Book
3. 'Til It's Over
4. Get Down Grandpa
5. My Girl My Girl
6. Crazy Eights
7. Hey Punkin Head
8. Honey Hush
9. Imaginary Radio
10. Get Rhythm

Terry Adams - piano, clavinet, vocals
Scott Ligon - guitar, vocals
Pete Donnelly - bass, background vocals
Conrad Choucroun - drums, background vocals

Recorded live May 1 & 2, 2009

If you missed The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet session on World Café in July, you can listen to it here.

One of the NASA Astronauts who flew aboard STS-119 (March 15-28, the 28th Shuttle flight to the International Space Station) took a copy of Grooves In Orbit into space with him. The photo was taken in the window of the Japanese Module.

Click on photo to enlarge.

The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet will travel to Japan in October for their first- ever concerts in that country. Stay tuned for details.

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The Lost House label in Japan, who have done incredible reissues of other NRBQ titles, have now reissued both Scraps and their album with Skeeter Davis, She Sings, They Play. Beautifully remastered, these are in cardboard sleeves that completely reproduce the original album covers. Liner notes in Jpaanese and lyrics in English included as well. We have imported limited quantities and they're available now.

Captain Lou Albano was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam, NY on May 16. Superfly Jimmy Snuka presented the award, which was accepted by members of Captain Lou's family. Lou And The Q, remastered for CD was released in Japan earlier this year. Beautifully packaged with a faithful reproduction of the original LP art (including the inner sleeve!), it also includes a full transcript of all the lyrics and everything that Lou says over the course of the album.

We have a limited number of copies for sale.

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Clang! proudly announces three new releases:

Terry Adams
Holy Tweet

On the recording with Terry are the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet's Scott Ligon on guitar and bass, and Tom Ardolino on drums.

Order now!

1. My Girl My Girl (Adams)
2. Never Cop Out (Adams)
3. Beautiful Lover (Adams, Jacobs)
4. Indian Love Call (Friml, Hammerstein, Harbach)
5. Yes I Will (Adams, Ligon)
6. Key To My Pants (Adams)
7. Feet (Adams)
8. She's Got Everything (Adams, Ligon)
9. Not Tonight, Hon (Adams)
10. I'm Alone (Adams)
11. So Disrespected (Adams

Chris Ligon
Look At The Birdy

Compilation produced by Terry Adams

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1. Buglight
2. Florida
3. Oh What A Day
4. Baby Books Bossa
5. A Thousand Pumpkins
6. I Don't Date
7. Look At The Birdy
8. Almond Grove
9. Dr. Peanut
10. Bottom Buck
11. Frankenstein Just Got Up
12. Danny O'Day
13. Randy In The Morning
14. Girl Of Virginia
15. The La La Song
16. Poetry Slam
17. Halfwit
18. Fun

All songs written by Chris Ligon except "Danny O'Day" by Richard Ligon
Produced and performed by Chris and Scott Ligon
Heather McAdams appears on "Dr. Peanut" and "The La La Song"

The Hot Shots
Teen Street

Produced by Terry Adams

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1. Teen Street (Barnes-Adams)
2. Think of Me (Owens-Rich)
3. Heart and Soul (Carmichael-Frank)
4. I'm In Love With You (Dickerson-Matsushita)
5. See You Soon (Kodama-Oyama)
6. Gee Baby (Joseph-Tyler)
7. Slow Traffic Blues (Dickerson-Matsushita)
8. Calypso Rock (Pingatore)
9. Remember (Winston-Crier-Marison)
10. Swing To The Hot Shots (Matsushita)
11. Pardon Me (McReynolds)
12. Would It Be So Wrong (Lannon-Matsushita)
13. Red Smoke (Matsushita)

Chie Kodama - acoustic guitar, vocal
Yuichiro Matsushita - guitar, 6 string bass, vocal
Kenji Oyama - upright bass
Jimbo Masayuki Kawamoto - drums
with:
Joey Interlande - vocal (3)
Terry Adams - piano (3, 6, 8, 11)
Betsy Dawn Williams - vocal (5)
Tom Ardolino - vocal (6, 11), drums (6)
Phil Bloch - violin (7)
The Ice Girls (Madeline Shaw & Juliana Redden) - vocals (8)
Skip Heller - electric guitar (13)
Keizo Matsushima - drums (13)
Ramy Antoun - drums (13)
Hioki - bass (13)

Make plans to attend the Clang! Thang!, April 24 & 25 in East Windsor, CT.

Friday Night Schedule (times are approximate):
6:00-7:00 – Pre-music Happy Hour, including hors d'oeuvres
8:15 – PJ O'Connell
9:20 – Chris Ligon & Heather McAdams
10:30 – The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet & The Whole Wheat Horns.

Saturday Afternoon Schedule (times are approximate):
1:30 – David Greenberger's Duplex Planet Tales with musical accompaniment by the Chandler Travis Chamber Ensemble
2:00 – The Chandler Travis Philharmonic & Special Guests
4:00 – The Q-tennany w/Special Guests

Saturday Evening Schedule ( times are approximate):
8:15 – PJ O'Connell
9:20 – Chris Ligon & Heather McAdams
10:30 – The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet & The Whole Wheat Horns.

April 18 is the release date for the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet 45, Thedy b/w Eat That Pumpkin, on the Euclid Records label out of St. Louis. Recorded live (with the Whole Wheat Horns) at a Euclid Records instore on November 30, 2008, the limited edition single will be available at www.euclidrecords.com. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the 45 will benefit the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund.

See Euclid Records performance of "Hey Little Brother" here.

The Quartet will tape World Café on May 1 for national broadcast later in the spring and their live concert at The Linda in Albany on May 2 will be taped for later broadcast on WAMC.

photo by Sharon Rutledge
See in-concert clip here.

The San Francisco Chronicle picked Terry's Love Letter to Andromeda*as one of the Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2008. "The brilliant pianist in the sadly defunct cult band NRBQ comes out of left field for a passel of irresistible live solo improvisations on prepared piano and celeste."

Order now!

Aqua Velvet's Vol 1: Hey Everybody, Let's Fall in Love! CD just reissued on Clang!

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Never before on CD, Shaggs Own Thing, the rare second album by The Shaggs and produced by Terry Adams, has been released in Japan in a beautiful cardboard sleeve. It's a miniature of the original LP sleeve cover with an insert in Japanese and English (all the lyrics in English). We have imported a limited quantity of these and they're available here now exclusively at $24 postpaid ($28.50 overseas)

Available now from our store!

Workshop has been reissued in Japan. Beautifully remastered, it's packaged in a cardboard sleeve that duplicates the original LP in every way.

Freedy Johnston has covered "I Want You Bad" on his new album, My Favorite Waste Of Time. More information at http://www.freedyjohnston.com

Scraps and Workshop have each been reissued by Sundazed on High-Definition vinyl and are available here.

New NRBQ bumperstickers available now! Can be yours for $2.00 ($3.50 overseas).

My Dinner With The Q
Since the type was so small in the booklet to the DVD release of Derbytown, the classic conversation can be read here. Johnny D's "My Dinner With The Q" originally appeared in issue # 39 (Winter 1991) of the New Rhythm & Blues News.

NRBQ Derbytown DVD available
Order here

This was filmed in 1982 in Louisville, KY and features the Whole Wheat Horns.
SONGS:
Thats All
Sink the Bismark
I Love Her, She Loves Me
What's The Plot
Mambo Jambo
The Dummy Song
12 Bar Blues
Green Lights
New Lang Syne
My Baby Came Back
Honey Hush
Thats Neat, Thats Nice
Hit the Hay
BONUS:
Me & the Boys from live TV
Atsa My Band video

Now available:
NRBQ's legendary live Ludlow Garage 1970
Order here

track list
1. Rocket #9/No Identification
2. Flat Foot Flewzy
3. Rip It Up
4. Sitting In the Park
5. Goofus
6. Step Aside
7. I Found A Love
8. Here Comes The Whistleman
9. You Move Too Fast
10. Red Planet
11. When's It's Summertime In the Wintertime
12. Fergie's Prayer
13. Wan-do
14. So Dance With Me
15. Ida
16. Finger Poppin' Time
17. Kentucky Slop Song
18. Someday Maybe

The Q People CD has been released in Germany with three new tracks ("Green Light" by Andrew Jones, "Comes To Me Naturally" by Lonesome Brothers, and "Little Floater" by Barbara Que). The SpongeBob audio cartoon has been dropped, since it's not that well known over there. It has the same cover and comes in a 6-fold digipack. The tracks have a new running order:

1. Steve Earle -- A Girl Like That
2. Settie -- Ridin' In My Car
3. Andrew Jones -- Green Light
4. Yo La Tengo -- Magnet
5. Mike Mills -- When Things Was Cheap
6. Los Lobos -- Never Take The Place Of You
7. Bonnie Raitt -- Me And The Boys
8. Ware River Club -- I Love Her, She Loves Me
9. Lonesome Brothers -- Comes To Me Naturally
10. Widespread Panic -- Ain't No Horse
11. Ron Sexsmith -- My Girlfriend's Pretty
12. Barbara Que -- Little Floater
13. J Mascis -- I Want You Bad
14. King Radio -- Yes, Yes, Yes

Available at stores everywhere in Germany, Austria and Switzerland or through the label's website: www.gembuzz.com

NEW release on Edisun!
Harper Heard it Though the Bovine
6-song 7" EP (Edisun #733)

With Tom on drums and Terry on piano and organ.

Available now.

Lyrics
Hey Punkin Head
One Big Parking Lot

Radio Archive
An NRBQ feature aired on July 24, 2005 on NPR's "Best of Our Knowledge" program can now be heard online at http://wpr.org/book/050724b.html

Terry madehis fifth guest appearance on the Bob Brainen Show on WFMU on Sunday, June 15 2007, at 7:00 pm. Terry joined Scott Ligon, the guitarist for The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet. You can listen to the show online at www.wfmu.org.

Terry appeared on Bob Brainen's Sunday night radio show on WFMU, 91.1 fm, on Sunday, May 29, 2005. The show is archived at wfmu.org

Terry made his third appearance on Bob Brainen's WFMU show on September 3, 2006 and discussed his 5 decades of recordings, from NRBQ to his many side projects past and present. The show is archived at wfmu.org

The full color Dummy poster, measuring 13 by 17.75 inches is now available. These are unfolded and will be sent in a mailing tube. Printed on heavy stock - beautiful and sturdy!

Purchase from our store.

Complete Savages
Don't miss the brilliant new comedy created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker called Complete Savages. Terry and Joe Interlande wrote the theme song for it and can also be seen as extras on the May 27th episode (8:30 on ABC).

More info can be found here.

Terry on the set of Complete Savages with Candace Kita and Mel Gibson.

Circular Moves Records is releasing a CD compilation called Summer Stage Live: 20th Anniversary. It will include NRBQ's performance of "Get Rhythm" recorded at New York City's Summer Stage on July 31, 1993.

The new CD by P.J. O'Connell, Careful has now been released on Edisun Records and features, among others, Tom, Johnny and Terry.

Purchase from our store.

High Tech and Low Life is a new book by Greg Baron, published by Author House. It can be ordered by calling 888-280-7715 or at Barnes & Noble. Greg traveled with NRBQ in the eighties, tending to the piano. This memoir is a look at life backstage with the various musicians he worked with, including
NRBQ.

The second season of Have Gun Will Travel is now on DVD.

Dummy-up!
You can now spread Dummy to your friends and family at a savings: five Dummy CDs for just $50!

Purchase from our store.

Phil Milstein's article "The Dickens, You Say" is THE definitve article on the infamous Q-offshoot, The Dickens. Read it now at http://www.spectropop.com/Dickens.

New Japanese NRBQ CD's

Transmissions
A 29 song 2CD anthology with 10 previously unreleased tracks.
A full track listing can be found here.

At Yankee Stadium
Remastered and in a cardboard sleeve exactly like the original LP and with a booklet containing new photos and memorabelia.

Unknown Brain by Tom Ardolino
Everything played and recorded by Tom around the summer of 1972.
A full track listing can be found here.

The Q People
Spirit House Records has released The Q People: A Tribute to NRBQ.
The performers on this CD are:

1. Yo La Tengo - Magnet
2. Steve Earle - A Girl Like That
3. Settie - Ridin' In My Car
4. Los Lobos - Never Take The Place Of You
5. Bonnie Raitt - Me And The Boys
6. Ware River Club - I Love Her, She Loves Me
7. Mike Mills - When Things Was Cheap
8. Ron Sexsmith - My Girlfriend's Pretty
9. J Mascis - I Want You Bad
10. Widespread Panic - Ain't No Horse
11. King Radio - Yes, Yes, Yes
12. SpongeBob SquarePants - Little Floater's Wild Weekend (audio cartoon)

Aviailable at stores everywhere or through the label's website:
www.spirithouserecords.com

Baxter
A new CD collection of Gary Windo's music has just been released, titled Anglo American. It includes the song "Baxter" with NRBQ. This song was originally
on his Dogface album.

Available from Cuneiform Records.

August 1, 2003
NRBQ Interstellar New Rhythm & Blues Quintet – Live 1970 10" vinyl EP from Sundazed Music is a ten-inch 33 1/3 RPM EP that finds NRBQ covering and paying tribute to Sun Ra & His Arkestra.

Cut live in 1970 at Cincinnati's Ludlow Garage and Clinton Hollow in upstate New York. Sun Ra's classic "Rocket #9" and his equally wonderful "Next Stop Mars" became extended experimental workouts, incorporating Adams' originals "Venusian Sunset" and "Approach The Planet."

SIDE ONE:
Rocket #9 / Venusian Sunset (12:46)
Recorded January 24, 1970 at Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio by Rick Lemker

SIDE TWO:
Next Stop Mars / Approach The Planet (11:32)
Recorded October 11, 1970 at Folly Farm, Clinton Hollow, New York

Sundazed Records has released Atsa My Band on 180 grain vinyl. See our store to place an order.