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Title: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: jarmo on August 24, 2011, 10:11:39 AM PHILADELPHIA ? A year after Tommy Stinson's online auction raised nearly $50,000 for children ravaged by last year's earthquake in Haiti, the Replacements bassist is getting ready to help out again.
"One Man Mutiny," his second solo effort, comes out Aug. 30 on Stinson's own label, Done to Death Music. He plans to donate half of the proceeds to Timkatec, a nonprofit that houses and educates homeless children in the Port-au-Prince area. "It could be a little, it could be a lot, depending on how the record does," he told The Associated Press from his home in upstate New York, where he recently moved from suburban Philadelphia. Timkatec was able to enlarge one of its main buildings and increase enrollment by around 200 children after last year's auction, Stinson said. He put some of his guitars and trademark custom-made plaid suits on the auction block last summer, along with concert passes and other items, after visiting Haiti to attend a graduation ceremony for 60 young men from Timkatec who earned trade degrees. The school, founded in 1994 by a Roman Catholic priest, trains destitute boys to work as plumbers, electricians, tailors, shoemakers and construction workers; its sister school trains teenage girls as cooks, hairdressers, seamstresses and child care workers. Haiti has been painfully slow to rebound, and its place in the international spotlight has dimmed, since the magnitude-7 quake pulverized the capital on Jan. 12, 2010. Rubble from thousands of collapsed buildings remain where they fell and The International Organization for Migration estimates about 630,000 Haitians are still without homes. "I'm probably not going to get to do another auction this year because I don't have enough items for it," he said with a laugh. In the meantime, he is encouraging his friends in the music world to help the organization and hopes that the new record will create additional awareness of Timkatec and its mission, as well as more funding. Stinson, who is also finishing up a new record with fellow Minneapolis natives Soul Asylum and hitting the road with Guns N' Roses in October, hopes to find time in his crammed schedule to return to Haiti in the fall. "There still might be a small window of opportunity for me to do that in September ... for the start of the new school season," he said, "to see the new building and especially to see the kids. The kids are what it's all about." http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/news/tommy-stinsons-new-cd-proceeds-to-help-haiti-kids/6283913/ /jarmo Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: LongGoneDay on August 24, 2011, 10:29:56 AM Great stuff.
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: gnr-4-ever on August 29, 2011, 10:34:02 AM Nice to see somebody who didn't forget about the Haiti tragedy and still helps out.
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: jarmo on August 29, 2011, 12:28:40 PM tommy_stinson: Are you excited for "One Man Mutiny?" Prove it by voting at Magnet Magazine's site:
http://t.co/LGIhJjT (http://t.co/LGIhJjT) tommy_stinson: And if you are really excited for "One Man Mutiny," which is out tomorrow, you can preview the ENTIRE album at Spinner: http://t.co/s1zGDkr (http://t.co/s1zGDkr) /jarmo Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: cineater on August 29, 2011, 08:37:42 PM Got it!!!
Really nice. Love the slide guitar. Thank you Tommy made my day, believe me, I need it. One.....one :D Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: jazjme on August 29, 2011, 11:18:27 PM Nice stuff for sure!
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: hitmanhart408 on August 29, 2011, 11:21:37 PM listening to it right now on AOL.com. Great album. I had it pre-ordered on amazon and they shipped it out today. It'll be here Wednesday : ok:
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: westcoast_junkie on August 30, 2011, 06:12:19 AM Good album. He got a real distinctive voice. He's like a punked up Bob Dylan :yes:
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: HBK on August 30, 2011, 09:29:50 AM I Listen Album, Great.
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: GypsySoul on August 30, 2011, 07:47:17 PM Got the cd's today but the vinyls didn't arrive yet (plural cause I ordered more than one of each).
There isn't one of those little booklet things but on the inside cover it says ... "I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR LOVE AND SUPPORT: names... names... names... names ... DIZZY REED, RICHARD FORTUS, FRANK FERRER, AXL ROSE, ... names ...names ... names ...names, etc. Dizzy, Richard and Frank also got playing and/or writing credits too. On the back cover it says ... FOR LYRICS, TOUR DATES, VIDEOS, AND MORE, VISIT WWW.TOMMYSTINSON.COM Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: Voodoochild on August 30, 2011, 10:59:21 PM It's a cool record. I dig Tommy's wife voice too.
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: jarmo on August 31, 2011, 06:54:45 PM tommy_stinson: New blog up on the main page of my site with some thoughts on the new album, the shows we just played, and more...
www.tommystinson.com (http://www.tommystinson.com) /jarmo Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: Dexter103 on September 01, 2011, 01:39:44 AM The album is fantastic--it has a Faces feel, and that familiar Stinson groove (which transcends his work in Bash n Pop, Perfect, and his solo stuff). Totally digging "Don't Deserve" you--the slide guitar, big beat and chorus totally rock!
Title: Re: Tommy Stinson's new CD proceeds to help Haiti kids Post by: cineater on September 01, 2011, 06:14:29 PM Axl?
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