Monday, August 24, 2020

Jared Putnam of The March Divide to release his first-ever live album, “ALIVE!” this Friday; Performs tonight at 830PM EST via Americana Highways.

 Primarily recorded in Athens, Georgia in January 2020, Putnam confesses, “It’s an incredibly depressing project, to mix a live record during the apocalypse.”
 
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Jared Putnam of The March Divide as photographed by Josh Huskin
 
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[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheMarchDivide-HighAndDry
 
 
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LISTEN HERE!
 
Check out the premiere of The March Divide’s cover of “High and Dry” by Radiohead at Americana Highways here or listen at the link above!
 
“I don’t do many covers live,” Jared Putnam of The March Divide says of the Radiohead cover included on ALIVE!, his first-ever live album, recorded in Athens, Georgia in January, just before the pandemic forced Putnam to leave the road. “‘High and Dry’ by Radiohead is one of the few I do.’ The Bends was a huge influence on my songwriting, so it was an easy song for me to make my own.”
 
For a tune that is an indie rock cornerstone, Putnam claims it. With just his acoustic guitar and harmonica, he hits the high notes with such clarity and pathos, it’d probably move Thom Yorke himself. Probably Johnny Greenwood, too! “Around a year ago, I tried to record it, in the studio, but just didn’t feel like it came across as well as it did live.”
 
RSVP HERE!
 
Jared Putnam of The March Divide livestreams a set tonight, Aug. 24th at 830PM EST / 730PM CST as part of the Americana Highways “Live From The Quarantine” series.
 
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The March Divide
ALIVE!
Aug. 28th, 2020
 (Slow Start Records)
 

 
Track Listing:


01. I Don’t Care (Live/Acoustic)
02. Spinning (Live/Acoustic)
03. You Save Me (Live/Acoustic)
04. Manic Monday (Live/Acoustic)
05. Take Your Chances (Live/Acoustic)
06. I Didn’t Mean It (Live/Acoustic)
07. Get In Line (Live/Acoustic)
08. Stevie Doesn’t Know (Live/Acoustic)
09. High and Dry (Live/Acoustic) (STREAM)
10. I Will Run To You (Live/Acoustic)
 
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The March Divide | In The Press
 
“Impressively hooky.” — American Songwriter
 
Putnam’s vocals pop.” — PopMatters
 
“Ingenious.” — Cowboys & Indians
 
“Hits the mark again and again.” — The Big Takeover
 
“The melodies are as catchy as ever.” — Twangville
 
Putnam is skillful.” — Nashville Scene
 
“A serious set of pipes.” — The Aquarian
 
“Infectiously poppy.” — Glide Magazine
 
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The March Divide | About
 
“There’s no better time than a global pandemic to start work on whatever you’ve been putting off.”
 
Jared Putnam of The March Divide has never been known for putting anything off when it comes to releasing music. After the release of his most recent full-length Anticipation Pops two summers ago, Putnam followed up with five volumes in his “Distractions” series, which he started “as an outlet to release songs I was working on between albums,” and later evolved into “more of a personal song writing challenge.”
 
The “distractions” became the focus as Putnam began to write, record, and release new singles every few weeks. All of this work was supplemented by a busy life on the road, mostly in and surrounding Putnam’s home base of San Antonio (he has since relocated to the Dallas area.) This is, of course, before the pandemic changed the game. If it seems like revisiting show recordings and compiling them for a live album during this time would be a daunting task, Putnam affirms that it is.
 
“It’s an incredibly depressing project, to mix a live record during the apocalypse,” he says. “I’ve worked really hard to get to the place that I was making a comfortable living from touring, and it literally vanished overnight.”
 
Difficult words to hear from any musician, but especially from one like Putnam whose work ethic is so strong.
 
“I started working on the mix right after everything was shut down, but it got really hard for me to work on, knowing there was no foreseeable end date to venues being shut down, so no foreseeable start date to my next tour,” he explains.
 
As the reality sunk in, Putnam pushed forward, and completed the project. The first live album by The March Divide, appropriately titled ALIVE! will be released on August 28th via Slow Start Records.
 
“The recording is primarily taken from a show I did in Athens, Georgia in January of 2020 at Vega Studios and a another show I did in Detroit in April of 2019. It was easy to pick the songs, because that was pretty much the set I was playing during all my tours behind my last album.”
 
Summing up ALIVE!, Putnam says, “I really wanted to release something that felt as much like an actual show as possible.”
 
We’re all hoping that The March Divide, and all touring musicians, can get back to playing actual shows very soon.
 
Jared Putnam of The March Divide is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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The March Divide | Links
 
ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP : SLOW START RECORDS
 
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
 
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