Oklahoma (Top40 Charts/ Shawna Russell Official Website) - During the past two weeks since Shawna Russell's second single, "Should've Been Born With Wheels" began landing on radio programmer's desks, things have been heating up in the Oklahoma native daughter's world.
Russell's "Wheels" earned the "Greatest Spin Power Increase" by any song on the current extended Music Row chart.
Since the release of "Should've Been Born With Wheels," Russell has headlined concerts in Shawnee, Muskogee and Choctaw, Oklahoma, and drawn media attention across the state with feature stories, interviews and news items appearing in no less than eight newspapers in Oklahoma. She has also interviewed on-air with Tracy Thomas of Oklahoma City's major-market powerhouse, KXXY radio, and performed live on Shawnee/Seminole's KIRC radio.
The buzz from Russell's new single and critically acclaimed debut CD Goddess is not only contained to the U.S., but has spread across the Atlantic. She is featured in a two page spread in the September issue of France's most popular Country music magazine, Dreamwest, where writer and Artistic Director Tony Taylor names Russell "The Goddess of Country Rock." Due to the groundswell of attention for her music, Dreamwest Publisher, Patrick Sidoun has ordered copies of Russell's Goddess CD to be placed for sale in over 40 affiliated "Western Lifestyle" stores there - and singles of "Should've Been Born With Wheels" to be serviced to all Country radio outlets throughout France.
Stateside, Brandy McDonnell, Entertainment writer for The Oklahoman who recently said that Russell is "likely Oklahoma's next Country superstar" says "Should've Been Born With Wheels" is "a fun song to listen to as you drive down the road with the windows down."
And the single is currently featured in heavy rotation for two weeks at Music Row's KAUS radio in Austin, Minnesota, for their "September Pepsi Stuff.com Play of the Day!" promotion where call-in winners receive an autographed copy of Russell's debut album.
Earlier this year, Russell's first single release, "Goddess," earned significant airplay across the country and she visited radio stations in over a dozen states to support the record. Russell won coveted musical guest spots for herself on the top-rated KBEQ morning talk show in Kansas City - and on Voice of America's "Border Crossings" show, broadcast from Washington, DC. to over 60 countries around the world.
Also watch for Russell in the October CMA Close Up magazine, where she will be showcased in their "Debut Artist Spotlight."
For more information, visit Shawna Russell's online sites at:
www.ShawnaRussell.com
www.MySpace.com/shawnarussell878
