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SAVING ABEL IS AMERICA’S #1 SELLING NEW ARTIST Memphis Based Southern Rocker’s Debut Album Tops This Week’s Soundscan New Artist Chart

SAVING ABEL IS AMERICA’S #1 SELLING NEW ARTIST Memphis Based Southern Rocker’s Debut Album Tops This Week’s Soundscan New Artist Chart

“SAVING ABEL,” the Skiddco/Virgin Records debut album of southern rock quintet Saving Abel, has achieved a career milestone for the band by taking the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Heatseekers listing, in its twelfth charting week. “SAVING ABEL” also tops the Nielsen Soundscan new artists album chart this week.

“Addicted,” the album’s unabashedly randy first single, is also nearing a chart summit, bulleting to No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The track also has entered the Top 15 in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks listing. The digital single has sold over 100,000 downloads.

Saving Abel recently announced a two-month series of tour dates with Puddle of Mudd, kicking off in early July. Online, the Saving Abel MySpace.com page has amassed nearly 1.5 million profile views, and nearly half a million streams of “Addicted.”

Saving Abel – named after the Biblical sibling of Cain – was formed by Jared Weeks and guitarist Jason Null in 2004 in their hometown of Corinth, Mississippi. Now based in Memphis, Tennessee, the band’s lineup includes guitarist Scott Bartlett, bassist Eric Taylor and drummer Blake Dixon. Combining influences of southern rock, hard rock and alternative music, the band was first heard on a 2005 EP, produced by Skidd Mills (12 Stones, Saliva, Submersed).

Saving Abel on Tour

Date: Venue: City:

06/05/2008 Valarium Knoxville,TN
06/06/2008 Tupelo Elvis Festival Tupelo,MS
06/07/2008 Liberty Memorial Park Kansas City,MO
06/08/2008 Conservatory Oklahoma City,OK
06/10/2008 Varsity Theatre Baton Rouge,LA
06/11/2008 The Swamp Fort Walton Beach,FL
06/13/2008 The Dive Goose Creek,SC
06/14/2008 Juiblee Jam Jackson,MI
06/15/2008 Main Street Live Jackson,TN
06/17/2008 Smokin’ Aces Mission,TX
06/18/2008 House of Rock Corpus Christi,TX
06/19/2008 Midnight Rodeo Abilene,TX
06/20/2008 Dos Amigos Odessa,TX
06/21/2008 Scout Bar San Antonio,TX
07/02/2008 Summerfest Milwaukee,WI
07/04/2008 Cotton Club Atlanta,GA

With Puddle Of Mudd:

07/05/2008 Mississippi Coast Coliseum Convention Ctr Biloxi, MS
07/11/2008 Riverfest Little Rock, AR
07/14/2008 FirstTier Event Center Kearney, NE
07/15/2008 Val Air Ballroom Des Moines, IA
07/16/2008 Mayo Civic Center Auditorium Rochester, MN
07/17/2008 Heart of Illinois- Fair Peoria, IL
07/19/2008 Leach Amphitheatre Oshkosh, WI
07/21/2008 House of Blues Chicago, IL
07/22/2008 Bogart’s Cincinnati, OH
07/24/2008 Harrah’s Casino Council Bluffs, IA
07/25/2008 Guaranty Bank Lot Cedar Rapids, IA
07/26/2008 Ozark Empire Fair Springfield, MO
07/27/2008 Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
07/29/2008 Bismarck Civic Center Bismarck, ND
07/30/2008 Ramkota Exhibit Hall Sioux Falls, SD
08/02/2008 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
08/05/2008 The Big Easy Boise, ID
08/06/2008 Big Easy Spokane, WA
08/09/2008 Buffalo Chip Campgrounds Sturgis, SD
08/11/2008 The Orbit Room Dallas, TX
08/12/2008 Piere’s Fort Wayne, IN
08/17/2008 Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach, NH
08/21/2008 Rams Head Live! Baltimore, MD
08/22/2008 House of Blues Atlantic City, NJ
08/23/2008 Moore Square Park – Downtown Raleigh Raleigh, NC