Subj : Rock News To : All From : Piper Christian Vierik Date : Thu May 29 2003 06:56 pm FATE'S RIGHT HAND Rodney Crowell's 11th full-length recording, "Fate's Right Hand," is due in stores July 29 on DMZ/Columbia. While Crowell's last album, "The Houston Kid," explored the com- plex and myriad aspects of a Texas youth finding his way in the world, "Fate's Right Hand" flips up the rear-view mirror and takes a hard look at the here-and-now. Written in Nashville, Ireland, New York, Texas and California, "Fate's Right Hand" is the rumination of a man spreading his wings and finding a higher place among the rising waters. For the American roots songwriter -- whose songs have been covered by everyone from Waylon Jennings to the Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson to Foghat, Bob Seger to George Strait -- a union with taste-making producer/writer/artist T-Bone Burnett was just the catalyst to create Crowell's most personal and inspiring record to date. "Most of these songs wrote themselves," Crowell confesses. "They became like glaciers almost. They just pushed up from my subcon- scious. Part of the writing was probably my subconscious wanting to tell me these things. If 'The Houston Kid' was about putting your ghosts to bed, this record is about dealing with what's there, shaking with the darkness. Buy if you'll do that, look at it, address it, what's inside can lift you up. Of course, it's about being as comfort- able with being lifted up as it is being pushed down -- which is what most of us are used to." REVIS DAY IN CARBONDALE, ILL. The city of Carbondale, Ill., has proclaimed May 19 as "Revis Day" in honor of their hometown heroes. "Places for Breathing," the band's Epic Records debut, is set to hit stores Tuesday. Revis' first single, "Caught In The Rain," is steadily climbing the radio charts and was the No. 1 most played video on Much Music USA's newly formatted Fuse network. Revis will headline the second stage on Pearl Jam's Riot Act tour beginning on June 1, and will then resume touring with Evanesence. Throughout both tours, Revis will be playing a handful of radio shows with artists such as Godsmack, Stained and Everclear. "Places for Breathing" was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Trust Company) and mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, System of a Down) and Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails). The music video for "Places For Breathing" was directed by Steven Murashige (Incubus, The Ataris, Rage Against The Machine). PRESLEY ON TOUR Dates have been confirmed for the debut tour by Lisa Marie Presley, who will join Chris Isaak on a 17-city U.S. tour kicking off July 11 at the Fleet Boston Pavilion and hit- ting key markets including New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Memphis and Nashville. Presley has been confirmed to perform live at New York City's Rockefeller Plaza June 20 as part of "The Today Show" out- door concert series. She also will perform on "VH1 Divas Duets," airing live from Las Vegas Thursday at 9 p.m. An episode of VH1's "Driven" devoted to Presley will premiere June 1. Additionally, Presley's special acoustic perfor- mance on "AOL Live Sessions" premiered May 15. Presley's recently released debut album, "To Whom It May Concern," entered the Billboard album charts at No. 5 and has now been RIAA certified Gold. LARRY SHAW 1938-2003 Former Stax Records advertising executive Larry Shaw, who helped design the label's finger-snapping logo as well as many of its best-known album covers, died of a heart attack in Memphis last week at age 65. Ten days earlier, at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Shaw had introduced the screen- ing of "Wattstax," the 1973 documentary he co-produced. The Orpheum screening was the culmination of a week of con- certs and other activities celebrating the grand opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. "Wattstax" direc- tor Mel Stuart, interviewed in "International Documentary" magazine, called Shaw "the philosophical soul of this film." Special screenings are scheduled for the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Seattle Film Festival, an American Film Institute showing at the Arclight Theater in Los Angeles with Mel Stuart and Ted Lange in attendance, and at the Atlanta Film Festival. On June 6, Columbia Repertory will open the film nationally in eight major markets, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with rolling dis- tribution to occur throughout the summer in smaller regional U.S. markets. Piper Christian KC8TEZ --- SBBSecho 2.00-Win32 * Origin: Scanner Enthusiasts BBS - scannerbbs.dyndns.org (1:229/658) .