Focus Music Notes. "Out of the Blues". Popular music through the decades

• New single ‘White Feather’ to be released February 1st, 2010 •Norwich date added to previously announced January tour Wolfmother are indeed back. Critical acclaim aside, the fans have spoken as well - the new album "Cosmic Egg" surpassed the chart debut for their Grammy-winning first album around the globe, including the U.S, Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Holland, Austria, and more. The fans have also come out in force to the band's live shows - Wolfmother already played a string of packed out shows across Europe and UK, and tickets are going fast for their next European tour, in January 2010. Amidst all this, Wolfmother get ready to release their second single - the rolling hard rock of White Feather. With it's bluesy lead licks, AC/DC-esque thump and stadium-sized chorus, White Feather is Wolfmother’s latest anthem, and one of the many highlights from Cosmic Egg. Expect it to be sung like a terrace anthem at their forthcoming live shows. White

“AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH” Release date 21st December 13 year old London-born soul singer Dionne Bromfield, whose sensational debut TV performance on Strictly Come Dancing introduced her as an exciting new talent, has her new Lioness Records single, “ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ” released on December 21st. The single is a double A-side with Dionne’s festive rendition of Christmas classic “I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus”. Dionne is the first signing to five time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse’s brand new label Lioness Records, and the single is taken from her recently releaSed debut album “Introducing Dionne Bromfield” . Speaking about Dionne Amy says, “ The first time I heard Dionne sing, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing… such an amazing voice from such a young girl. I’m just so proud of her. I’m very lucky to have a record label. I’ve got all these people that I love, that are really talented – and Dionne is my number one” .   It was at the age of ten that Dionne start

Tori’s First and Highly Anticipated Seasonal Album Midwinter Graces is out now. After nearly two decades writing and recording some of her generation’s most emotionally powerful music, Tori Amos has released her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces, on Island Records. A follow up to Tori’s critically acclaimed studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Midwinter Graces will find Tori reworking and expanding on classic carols as well as developing some of her very own seasonal tracks. Midwinter Graces is an album that has been in the making for the past 40 years. Raised in the Baltimore area under the watchful eye of her Methodist minister father, Tori grew up playing holiday carols at Sunday services and Christmas Day celebrations in her father’s church. These were the songs that gave a young Tori her first taste of music, and now almost 40 years later Tori gets her own chance to reimagine classics like “What Child, Nowell” and “Star of Wonder.” Tori will also add her own bitterswee