JJ & The Foreign Cowboys
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JJ & The Foreign Cowboys

New York City, New York, United States | SELF

New York City, New York, United States | SELF
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"Press Release Sep '05"

NEW POP-COUNTRY SENSATION
JJ & THE FOREIGNCOWBOYS

NAMED ONE OF “AMERICA’S BEST INDEPENDENT ARTISTS” BY PCT MUSIC

NEARLY 35,000 CDs SOLD IN TARGET STORES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES


East Coast Pop-Country sensation JJ & The Foreign Cowboys has just been named one of “America’s Best Independent Artists” in the United States by PCT Music with nearly 35,000 copies sold of their latest CD Be the Wild in Me. “America’s Best Independent Artists” program was created by PCT Music (Oxford, Michigan) to offer truly Independent Musicians broad distribution of their works without record label support. Mega-retailer Target Corporation signed on to participate as one of ABIA’s mass-merchandisers for the first three months of the program offering prominent, front-door promotional placement in their stores nationwide.

The Target program proved a rousing success for JJ & The Foreign Cowboys, and PCT Music expects to continue to feature their "Be the Wild in Me" album in other high volume retail outlets such as Sam’s Wholesale Clubs beginning this Fall. Currently, ABIA’s are also available in drug, discount, and convenience stores across the country.

JJ &The Foreign Cowboys is an original pop-rock/country band based in New York City.
- Delta Dane Communications


""Be the Wild in Me" Album Review"

“The combination of driving country with a rock influence topped off by JJ’s… good looks and sultry, smoky voice have turned a lot of heads in the music biz…” - Country Line Magazine


"Press Release Sep '05"

NEW POP-COUNTRY SENSATION
JJ & THE FOREIGNCOWBOYS

NAMED ONE OF “AMERICA’S BEST INDEPENDENT ARTISTS” BY PCT MUSIC

NEARLY 35,000 CDs SOLD IN TARGET STORES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES


East Coast Pop-Country sensation JJ & The Foreign Cowboys has just been named one of “America’s Best Independent Artists” in the United States by PCT Music with nearly 35,000 copies sold of their latest CD Be the Wild in Me. “America’s Best Independent Artists” program was created by PCT Music (Oxford, Michigan) to offer truly Independent Musicians broad distribution of their works without record label support. Mega-retailer Target Corporation signed on to participate as one of ABIA’s mass-merchandisers for the first three months of the program offering prominent, front-door promotional placement in their stores nationwide.

The Target program proved a rousing success for JJ & The Foreign Cowboys, and PCT Music expects to continue to feature their "Be the Wild in Me" album in other high volume retail outlets such as Sam’s Wholesale Clubs beginning this Fall. Currently, ABIA’s are also available in drug, discount, and convenience stores across the country.

JJ &The Foreign Cowboys is an original pop-rock/country band based in New York City.
- Delta Dane Communications


Discography

EP- JJ & The Foreign Cowboys, released 2001
"Be The Wild in Me",released 2004 (*over 36,000 sold!)
"Hello wherever you are...", March 2008 release
Commercial radio: single "Hold On"
Commercial radio: single "On the Radio"

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After independently selling over 36,000 copies of their first full-length CD "Be the Wild in Me", JJ & The Foreign Cowboys are poised and determined to make big noise with the release of their second, self-produced album " Hello wherever you are..". They were named one of "America's Best Independent Artists" by PCT Music in 2005, and have since been widely embraced by college and public radio stations across the country. In 2006 they captured a Top 5 spot on Indie Artists Radio's Most Requested list with the single "Hold On".
Hitting the airways in April, "Hello wherever you are..." surely won't disappoint. It's overflowing with strong melodic hooks and catchy grooves rooted in a mix of contemporary country and pop-rock. It's upbeat and witty, yet also vulnerably honest and wonderfully sad. "This album is a lot about relationships and letting go", says JJ. " My favorite albums are the kind that take me up and down, I'll play them over and over just to keep riding the emotions. And that's what this record does for me. We put our laughter, our tears, our hopes and dreams, as well as our struggles in there. Its full of the messy truth that simply makes up the reality of our life."
JJ & The Foreign Cowboys hit the New York music scene in late 1998 when they landed a two-year residency at The Gold Rush, a country dance club in the heart of Hell's Kitchen. JJ formed the band with Danish keyboardist/songwriter Jorgen Kjaer (now her husband) when she was approached by the club's manager after he heard her perform as a guest artist. From early on, the pair felt a natural chemistry working together. "When I first met JJ" Jorgen recalls, "I could see immediately that she was a great performer. It struck me how passionate and real she was about her music. Plus, I was really attracted to her style of country. So when she asked me to put a band together and write with her, I was eager to get started, and inspired by what it might become." "Jorgen was a dream come true for me." says JJ, "I knew he was the right guy for this project, but the honest truth is I had a huge crush on him since the day we met, and I was looking for a reason to spend more time with him. The fact that he was a super-talented musician and songwriter was just a bonus!"
"Hello wherever you are..." reflects the combination of the pairs' varied musical backgrounds. "As a kid, I liked to sing along with the Dolly Parton, and Kenny Rogers records that I dug out of the bottom of the stereo." recalls JJ, "I loved the story-telling and the sad sound of the fiddle and pedal steel. Somehow I felt like this music magically knew me, and was a part of me."
By the time JJ and Jorgen were performing regularly, Shania Twain, The Dixie Chicks and Faith Hill were topping the charts. "I am strongly influenced by 90's country music,too." says JJ, "These are the artists we were covering most often, when Jorgen and I started writing together. Naturally that had an influence on our original stuff--we wanted our songs to blend seamlessly with our cover repertoire at that time." Jorgen on the other hand, studied and performed all kinds of music from classical, to pop, rock and even jazz. "I really like today's country music", offers Jorgen, "and you can tell a lot of the writing is guitar based. I enjoy writing on the guitar, but my first instrument is piano so I tend to rely on that color in our music."
Contemporary country influences shine on the single "On the Radio", and "The Girl Inside", while you'll hear hints of early country in songs like "Talk to Me" and "Butterflies". They explore the trials of long-term relationships with "Waiting On You" and celebrate the magic of deepening love in the intimate ballad "A Small Piece of Heaven".
"We wanted a high level of production for this record, but wanted to maintain some of the raw elements of our live performances." says Jorgen. And they do just that with honky-tonk tracks like "Another Get Lost Song" and "Barnburner". "We've spent a lot of time playing bars" he adds, "We're used to long sets, and high energy gigs where people want to dance. Ultimately that's what we're about--that's our history, so we wanted to preserve some of that energy in this record."