Too Good Records Aligns With A Train

Too Good Records
A partnership between noted guitarist, composer and skateboard wizard Tommy Guerrero and A-Train’s owner, Al Evers, Too Good Records is launched to release Tommy Guerrero recordings as well as those of other artists. The first release on Too Good Records is From The Soil To The Soul, previously released on Quannum Records but now with the bonus track, “Better Days”; release date for this is February 1 . Other releases are planned from Too Good Records for later in 2011.

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A-Train Artists top the 2010 World Music Charts Europe

A-Train is pleased to announce that A-Train affiliated artists and labels held 5 of the top 30 recordings in 2010’s World Music Charts Europe, including number #1.

With the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars’s “Rise and Shine” at number one, other A-Train clients were Six Degrees’ “Vagarosa” by Ceu, Cumbancha’s “Lero Lero” by Luisa Maita, “Opa Hey!” by Kottarashky on Asphalt Tango and Konono No 1’s “Assume Crash Position” from Crammed Disc.

Congratulations to all!

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Billboard.com Best of 2010

Congratulation to the the following A-Train Entertainment artists for earning a top 10 spot on Billboard’s best of 2010!

Smooth Jazz Songs Artists:

#3 Chris Standring

#4 Rick Braun

#8 Spencer Day

Smooth Jazz Songs:

#1 “Bossa Blue” – Chris Standring   Blue Bolero

#6 “Christiane” – Rick Braun  All It Takes

#10 “Retro Boy” – Richard Elliot  Rock Steady

Dance Airplay:

#2 “Radio” – Get Far feat. H- Boogie

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53rd Grammy Final Nominations List

53rd Grammy Final Nominations List

Category 8 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

“Imagine” Herbie Hancock w/ Konono (Crammed disc artist)

Category 10 Best Pop Instrumental Album

Pushing The Envelope- Gerald Albright (Peak/Heads Up/Concord)

Category 26 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

“Hang On In There”- John Legend & The Roots (co songwriter- Mike James Kirkland

Category 43 Best New Age Album

Dancing Into Silence- R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman (Canyon Records)

Category 65 Best Bluegrass Album

Legacy- The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (Compass Records)

Category 71 Best Native American Music Album

XI- Bear Creek (Canyon Records)

Temptations: Cree Round Dance Songs- Northern Cree (Canyon Records)

Category 86 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists

“Imagine”- Herbie Hancock w/ Konono

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Golden Gate Quartet Inducted Into The Gospel Hall Of Fame

A Train would like to formally congratulate Clyde Wright and the Golden Gate Quartet on their induction into the Gospel Hall Of Fame. It was announced on November 16th that the quartet would receive this honor along with Johnny Cash, Degamo & Key, and Bill “Hoss” Allen. Wright, who is 82, has been making Gospel music for more than 50 years and could not be more proud of this achievement. The Gospel Music Hall of Fame was founded in 1971 and more than 150 members have been inducted so far.

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