Although platinum-plus Florida modern rock quartet The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus chose the title of their second Virgin Records album, Lonely Road, with family and friends at home in mind, the band has gathered a loyal worldwide group of fellow travelers in the last two years. Those fans' enthusiasm in the album's week of release has resulted in a No. 14 debut in national Billboard Top 200 album sales and a No. 1 Alternative digital album, making this their highest sales chart position ever.
Prior to the February 3rd release of
Lonely Road, the lead-off single "
You Better Pray" had proven itself a national hit in both the Alternative and Active Rock radio formats, with wide video exposure through FUSE, Music Choice, MTVu and MTV2, which premiered their video all day long on "
Unleashed." This week, RJA will appear on ABC's late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live on Feb. 11th, performing a new single, "
Pen & Paper," which was originally given away as an MP3 at Christmas to fans on the bands MySpace page. The singles overwhelming demand turned into a sales phenomenon and has since added to their over 41 million plays on Myspace (Face Down over 20 million & Your Guardian Angel reaching over 18 million). Historically,
RJA's known for their dedicated and fanatical followers, which resulted in selling more than 2.1 million singles from their debut album
Don't You Fake It.
The new album, produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Daughtry, Less Than Jake, Hoobastank, P.O.D., All-American Rejects, Seether) has already been praised for its "million-dollar hooks," "flat-out perfection," and "bold, fearless vocals" (Alternative Press).
And, true to RJA's enduring hits "Face Down" and "Your Guardian Angel," the hallmark of Lonely Road's lyrics are the band's incisive and truthful observations about true-to-life encounters and relationships in settings of family ("Lonely Road"), the battleground and its aftermath ("Godspeed," "Pleads and Postcards"), and the hometowns everyone will recognize. "We want to blow people away with these new songs," lead singer Ronnie Winter said recently. "It's a bit of a risk, a little departure, but it's still Red Jumpsuit."
RJA's Virgin Records debut, Don't You Fake It, debuted in August 2006 at No. 25 on the Billboard Top 200, and ended its 62-week album chart run in October 2007.
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