With only three weeks left until Sean Rowe’s new album Magic is released, we have some excellent details to reveal.

First, the CD release party for Magic is scheduled for Friday, April 24th at Bread & Jam in Cohoes, NY! Owner Sal Prizio will be obtaining a beer/wine license especially for the night and Sean is putting together a one-time only band to recreate some of the nuances and sounds on the album. This will be a very special evening and we will be announcing more details as the date draws nearer.

Continuing along with sharing different parts of Magic, we are glad to share with you a demo version of the song “Jonathan“. The studio version of it streamed last week at Sean’s MySpace page, being replaced with the next two songs in the track order (“Old Black Dodge” and “Wet”) for the next week. If you didn’t get a chance to hear “Jonathan” in it’s deluxe-recorded form, here is Sean’s first draft of the song and a short explanation about what you’ll hear…

This was the very first recording of the song laid down on my micro Boss BR 4-track. I had just finished writing the song which took about an hour (usually never that easy for me). It’s pretty long and on the count of it being a first draft, there are lyrics at the end that were ultimately edited out of the studio version.

Sean Rowe // – Jonathan (demo)

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Finally, we would like to thank our friends at WEXT for naming Magic “CD Spotlight of the Month” for the month of April! Here’s a sketch of when the station will be playing songs off of the album –>

Starting Tuesday morning (3/31) with Dave Michaels and in the afternoon with Chris Wienk, you’ll hear each of the songs with special intros done by Sean and Troy Pohl (formerly of The Kamikaze Hearts and the recording engineer, musician, and producer of the record). Each Tuesday until 4/14, we’ll have the tracks at 7a, 8a, and 4p. On 4/14, it’ll also be in the 5p hour to get all ten songs in! Then on 4/21, the release date, be listening for a track each hour!

Thanks WEXT!

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