Hello to everyone and thanks always for being here!
Welcome to the winter edition of the ‘Harwill News’ for 2010, and as always I wish nothing but the very best to you and yours for the New Year!
The big news in these parts remains the release of my new album to radio and retail, and I want to say “thank you very much” to all the good folks out there in radio land for the support! The new album ‘Tim Harwill & Friends ~ The Wander Man Revisited‘ has already charted on Canadian College radio (#3 CKXU, 11/09) and is now in medium rotation on community and campus stations from coast to coast, and I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate your support and continue to need your requests. With distribution to both Aboriginal and small market Country radio continuing, please drop by the new web site (link below) for a current list of request lines and station ID’s near you across Canada.
http://www.timharwill.com
With radio distribution in Canada almost complete, retail distribution is next on the agenda for ‘The Wander Man Revisited’, and my intent is to have some news on that front by the time I send out the spring edition of the ‘News’. In the meantime I’m pleased to let you know that you can now purchase the album on iTunes ~ your favorite tracks or the entire album at a discount price ~ in addition to being able to order the CD from the Indie Pool eStore, or direct by post, autographed if you ask for it, from me here. Thanks kindly for using the links below to make your purchase today and please see the web site for the growing list of retail and online outlets making the new album available in 2010, and thanks again for all of your support!
http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-wander-man-revisited/id343481870
http://indiepool.com/estorelayout1.asp?n=16668
The first big news item for the New Year is my recent nomination for a pair of 2009 TEM Awards. Nominated in the ‘Best Provincial Country Song’ (a win!) and the ‘Best Provincial Up & Coming Producer’ categories (congrats to Quebec chanteuse Claire Hayek for the win) I’m pleased to share the news and want to say thanks to the good folks over at Toronto Exclusive Magazine for the recognition! For details regarding these annual awards and this leading edge Canadian Ezine see the web site at the link below.
http://www.torontoexclusive.com
As most folks are aware, a chronic bad back has kept me more off of the road than on it over the last couple of years. Having said that, between recording studio and post production sessions here at Thorsby and Nashville, TN, poetry festival and film acting appearances in Edmonton, AB, and semi-regular dates with the ‘Makin’ the Mortgage’ concert series in rural Alberta in the calendar during 2009, I’ve managed to stay busy enough. I’ll go further and say that having been given the opportunity to ‘stretch my wings’ a little, away from my guitars and the highway over the last couple of years, has been both good fun and good for me. As a result, I continue to seek alternative outlets for some of this creative energy that not traveling every day has made available to me, and plan to explore additional opportunities in these ‘other worlds’ of the arts in 2010. Watch the ‘News’ for word on these continuing adventures, and thanks always for your interest and support.
I’m very happy to tell you that I continue to make good progress with my back and generally do feel much better than I have in some years, although it appears that my touring calendar will continue to be dictated to some extent by the reality of living with a chronic injury and the pain that goes along with it. To say the least this makes touring at a full-time clip untenable for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the reliance upon (addiction to?) pharmaceuticals to manage the chronic pain that rapidly develops as a result of being forced to travel on a regular basis. As simple as it might seem to just not go, and as much as I’d like to avoid a recurrence of said reliance, having a new record to support has me chomping at the bit to get back on the road! Now working on a plan for the upcoming summer, I’ll post details as they’re confirmed here and on the web site, and I thank you in advance for making requests at your local venue or event if you’d like to have me join you onstage in your neck of the woods in 2010!
In addition to the new web site and CBC Radio3, you can always hear tracks from each of my LPs FREE on Myspace, and I continue to feature live digital video on my Youtube station, and I’ve included links to those sites below. I have yet to join Facebook, as it seems primarily a personal and social networking environment and thus I question its’ value in promoting my music. In addition, I have no plans to join the Twitter movement, with the explanation for this decision to be found in the name of the service! Once again, thanks very much for stopping in and saying hello when you can, don’t forget to tell a friend, and I hope you enjoy the music.
http://www.myspace.com/..timharwill
http://www.youtube.com/..timharwill
This is the 1st of 4 editions of the ‘News’ planned for the calendar year, and while some folks have recently mentioned that more regular contact (less time between issues) might be both appreciated and more effective, I’m fairly certain that it’ll be enough of a challenge for me to stick with the quarterly schedule. As such I’ll thank you for continuing to accept these missives every few months from beautiful Thorsby here on the Alberta prairie where I’m fortunate enough to make my home.
This is the 2nd edition of the ‘News’ to be sent from this email address and also from myself directly, and in spite of my best efforts managing the technical challenges of a mailing list you may have received this message in error. If you have, please accept my apologies for the mistake, as I continue to work to limit similar errors in the future. As always, I send along my personal thanks for your interest and support, and I ask that you reply to me here with ‘REMOVE’ in the subject line if you’d like to opt out of future editions of the ‘Harwill News’. Please send an email with ‘ADD ME” in the subject line if you’re new and would like to receive future editions, and I thank you in advance for your patience.
I’d also like to say thanks for passing the ‘Harwill News’ along to friends, fans, and supporters of independent music everywhere, and thanks always to readers old and new!
Yours,
TH, January 11, 2010
