Daryl Hall to share new music on web series and TV

Daryl Hall is still Laughing Down Crying on the second installment of Live from Daryl’s House spotlighting five more songs from his new Verve Forecast solo album of the same name on the 48th and latest edition of the award-winning web series, premiering Nov. 15 exclusively at www.lfdh.com. The television debut of the episode is on November 26th.



"I came up with that title, probably invented it, to describe that emotional turmoil," explains Daryl about Laughing Down Crying, his fifth solo studio album, and first since 1997’s Can’t Stop Dreaming. “It’s about being in both places at once, emotionally wired and depressed, confused and frustrated.”



This month’s installment of the Webby and MTV O Music award-winning Internet series, which made its nationally syndicated TV broadcast debut on most of the country’s top markets in September, finds Hall going it alone on a five-song set that includes new songs “Message to Ya,” “Get Out of the Way,” “Wrong Side of History,” “Crash and Burn” and “Problem With You.” The song “Problem With You” was the last song that T-Bone Wolk worked on, sadly passing away hours later.



The show is syndicated nationally by Good Cop Bad Cop Productions in association with Scott Sternberg Productions and distributor Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Executive producers for the show include Hall and Scott Sternberg along with Daryl Hall manager Jonathan Wolfson.




Live from Daryl’s House is being shown weekly in over 80% of U.S. homes in the nation’s top 200 media markets, as well as all of the top 10, including New York (WPIX), L.A. (KTLA), Chicago (WGN), Dallas (KDAF) and Houston (KIAH). The show has also cleared in such key markets as Philadelphia (CBS-owned KYW), Boston (KBIN) and Atlanta (WATL), as well as a number of NBC, Fox and CBS-owned affiliates across the country. Most stations are airing a full hour with two original shows back to back on Saturday nights. The first week of the show did a .2 in national Nielsens, with the second week increasing 50% and several stations adding airings.




The 47 previous episodes of Live From Daryl’s House have featured a mix of well-known performers like Booker T and the MGs, Rob Thomas, Train, Smokey Robinson, The Doors’ Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, Toots Hibbert, Nick Lowe, K.T. Tunstall, Todd Rundgren, Dave Stewart, Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik and Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump along with newcomers such as Nikki Jean, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Mayer Hawthorne, Eric Hutchinson, Chromeo, Matt Nathanson, Parachute, Plain White T’s, soul diva Sharon Jones, Diane Birch, L.A. neo-R&B party band Fitz & the Tantrums, hot new alternative band Neon Trees and veteran alternative mainstays Guster.