TAPROOT Drummer To Sit Out Tour

September 27, 2008

Michigan-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT has issued the following update:

"After 10 years of touring, our drummer and good friend Jarrod [Montague] will be sitting out this cycle and we will be replacing him with our long time friend Nick Fredell. We'll miss Jarrod's presence out on the road, but Nick has fit in perfectly and we're excited for all of our fans to meet him. Jarrod's still very much a part of our family, so you'll be seeing him in press and the 'Wherever I Stand' video which is coming soon. We look forward to seeing you all out at the shows."

"Our Long Road Home", the new album from TAPROOT, sold around 7,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 65.

Released through Velvet Hammer, the label founded by the management company of the same name (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DEFTONES),the follow-up to 2005's "Blue-Sky Research" features the following track listing:

01. The Path Less Taken
02. Hand That Holds True
03. Wherever I Stand
04. Be the One
05. Take It!
06. It's Natural
07. As One
08. You're Not Home Tonight
09. Footprints
10. Run To
11. Interlude
12. Karmaway

Working with producer Tim Patalan (SPONGE, LOVEDRUG),the band penned more than fifty songs for the album, twelve of which were recorded in a converted barn just a few minutes down the road from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Richards' home.

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