ARTIST: JJ Appleton
TITLE: Walk Into The Room
LABEL: All Around The World
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 198kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 03min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006
RIP DATE: 2006-08-31

Track List

01. Walk Into The Room              3:41

Release Notes:

JJ Appleton came from a musical family in Vermont, not far from Dartmouth
College where his dad Jon Appleton had taught the offbeat subject of Electronic
Music since 1967. A pioneer in the field, Mr. Appleton was an accomplished
composer and one of the developers of the Synclavier. As a result, the family
traveled all over the globe. Wherever the Appletons went, Jon had a musical
agenda, which afforded JJ the rare opportunity to immerse himself in the
indigenous music of such exotic places as Tonga, Sweden, Israel and Turkey.

Growing up in this musical incubator, JJ's home was a revolving door of the
noteworthy artists of the day. The Appleton household had a constant stream of
musical guests as disparate as Don Cherry and Wang Chung. But, JJ's older
sister, who listened to a lot of Elton John and Doobie Bros, was mostly
responsible for introducing him to rock. Dad would play just about everything
from the music of Astor Piazzola to Fats Waller to the West Side Story
soundtrack. JJ studied classical piano and essentially tried to mimic everything
he heard, especially the blues, the Beatles and the Band.

Eventually he followed the musical Yellow Brick Road to NYC and got to work
being an independent artist, releasing his first album 500 Moments in 2003
amidst TV appearances with Carson Daly and E!, gigs up and down the east coast
at venues like the Knitting Factory and over on the west coast at events like
the Sundance Film Festival, critical acclaim from Q104 and the Washington Post
rapidly followed. For some reason, everyone in the States started commenting
that he looked like Ben Stiller, even though he’s clearly more of a bastard love
child between Adam Sandler and Ben Affleck.

That aside JJ followed up with a new album Uphill to Purgatory last year, which
coincided with bumping into respected UK manager Daniel Lycett. Things haven’t
stopped moving since for JJ in the UK, where a single song publishing deal soon
evolved into an album release through AATW/Absolute/Universal Music. Deciding to
catch the UK up quickly on what it had been missing JJ came over for a few small
gigs at places like Ronnie Scott’s and started getting to work on publicity
arrangements for a compilation of the first two US indie releases put together
as Someone Else’s Problem, due to be released in the UK on September 4th.