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I jumped up high and fast when asked to sing background vocals on Charlie’s new album, “ See You In Miami.” Charlie’s new material absolutely rocks & features performances by Peter Buck, Mike Vullo, Eddie O’Brien, Ian Hammond, Pat Hunter-Mayer, Rick Rossano, Mitch Mestell, Bobby Tak, Norm Sloan, Cortland D Joyce, and Dan Hosker who I know is most definitely smiling down from heaven.

Here’s what Rolling Stone Magazine has to say about Charlie Pickett: Pickett forged his brawling-roots mix of Johnny Thunders, Sun Records and trailer park Lou Reed in Florida bars, then bottled it to in-your-face effect on hot vinyl…That rattle ‘n’ smack now sounds raucously prescient. like a long-lost high-time link between the Replacements and the Drive By Truckers. –David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Very proud to have been a part of this wonderful project! Darrell’s new roots rock, Americana album features ten songs that thematically run the gamut from existential thought pieces to love and lost-love songs, all with gripping vocal hooks, grooving rhythms, and layers of guitars, wondrous guitars. Jack Shawde produced the album and plays multiple instruments. In addition to Darrell’s vocals and acoustic guitar, the album features Diane on drums and background vocals, Matthew Sabatella on bass and background vocals, Max Farber on keyboards, and Sarah Jacob and Lynn Bobby on background vocals. It is recorded, mixed and mastered by Luciano Delgado(Looch) at Miami Beach Recording Studios.  Buy it at CD Baby!

Released on the legendary Y&T Music label, the cover of Fred Neil’s “The Dolphin” was created to raise money & awareness for Ric O’Barry’s, Dolphin Project, a non-profit charitable organization, dedicated to the welfare and protection of dolphins worldwide. Founded by Richard (Ric) O’Barry on Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the mission of the Dolphin Project is to end dolphin exploitation and slaughter, as dolphins are routinely captured, harassed, slaughtered and sold into captivity around the world – all in the name of profit.

Every year from approximately September 1 to March 1, a notoriously cruel hunt of some of the most sentient and sensitive creatures on the planet takes place in Taiji, Japan, made famous by the 2009 Academy award-winning movie “The Cove.” During this period, fisherman, or more appropriately, dolphin hunters, “drive” the mammals to their capture or deaths via means of physical violence and acoustic torture.

Dolphin Project is the only organization to have been on the ground in Taiji since 2003. We have revolutionized live streaming and will broadcast throughout the entire season.

Dolphin Project works not only to halt these slaughters but also to rehabilitate captive dolphins, investigate and advocate for economic alternatives to dolphin slaughter exploitation and to put a permanent end to dolphin captivity. This work has been chronicled in films such as, ‘A Fall From Freedom,’ the Oscar-winning documentary ‘The Cove,’ and in the Animal Planet mini-series, ‘Blood Dolphin$.’

The Dolphins By Fred Neil cover credits: 
Vocals: Matthew Sabatella and Diane Ward
Acoustic Guitar: Matthew Sabatella Electric
Guitars: Jack Shawde
Drums: Frank Binger
Bass: Vinnie Fontana
Backing Vocals: Matthew Sabatella, Diane Ward, Karen Feldner, Darrell Arnold, and Sarah Jacob
Produced by: Matthew Sabatella and Jack Shawde
Engineer: Luciano “Looch” Delgado
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at: Miami Beach Recordings Studios by “Looch” Delgado
Art concept and design by: Rose Gargiulo at Imagine Media Concepts
©1967 Third Story Music (BMI). All rights administered by BMG Platinum Songs, Inc. Used by kind permission.

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