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New York, NY Lareau, the band that is gaining national attention due to its honest cool-mountain-stream aesthetic combining an Eagles/Byrds roots-reverence with a Fray/Maroon 5 modernity, is readying for their latest radio release Change My World impacting radio on February 18th, 2008.

Lareau completed the recording Change My World with producers Darrin Payne and Anthony Brown at All Sound Studios in Warren, PA. Reid Shippen a 3X Grammy Winner was brought in to do the final mix on the cut. Mixes were conducted at Soundstage Studios in Nashville where Shippen has worked with such notables as Jonny Lang, India Arie, Backstreet Boys, and Third Day to name a few. His latest Grammy was presented for Jonny Lang’s Turn Around Album.

Lareau’s Changes debut Warrior/UMGD has charted on three major Adult Contemporary charts: FMQB #10, Billboard #25 and R&R #25. Chuck Taylor, reviewing for Billboard, wrote of the albums organic play off of electric and acoustic guitars, bongos and buoyant sing-along hooks, referring to lead singer Larry Lareau as a frontman definitely stamped with nostalgic influences. The review ended with the fact that it’s a pleasure to see hard-working talent rise to the surface.

Lareau—founding member and lead vocalist Larry Lareau, drummer/multi-instrumentalist Darrin Payne, guitarist Pete Gool, bassist Roger Christopherson and keyboardist Anthony Brown—is the five-piece band from Western New York and Pennsylvania whose music is a refreshing and uplifting acoustic/electric trip that has had record buyers swooning to its intricate musical interplay.