Jon McLaughlin on NBC TODAY SHOW 06.27.07

Jon McLaughlin on NBC TODAY SHOW - June 27th

American heartland singer-songwriter and pianist Jon McLaughlin will perform live on NBC’s TODAY SHOW on June 27th. McLaughlin performed the single “Beautiful Disaster” which currently is climbing the mainstream’s Top 30 to the #28-bullet on the Hot AC chart. The single is from his first album for Island Records, Indiana, released June 19th to the CBA market via EMI CMG. “Beautiful Disaster” is also building a strong base at Pop radio, with spins on more than 30 stations. The song was recently highlighted by USA Today, which wrote: “The title’s first word is how he sees her. The second word is how she sees herself. The sad thing is he’s right.”On Sunday, June 10th, Jon was featured on the prestigious NPR (National Public Radio) program “Weekend Edition,” which resulted in Indiana rocketing up the Amazon charts. Jon’s online presence is also rising; McLaughlin won the prestigious AOL Music Breaker program and is currently up for voting on Yahoo “Who’s Next” program.Jon moves into the final handful of dates on his month-long tour with Grammy award-winning guitarist Jonny Lang. Indiana’s title tune pays tribute to Jon’s hometown of Anderson, IN. Jon will make his own big screen debut in Enchanted, the new Disney animated-and-live comedy starring Idina Menzel, Patrick Dempsey and Amy Adams scheduled to open in the fall 2007. Jon will be singing (onscreen) a song written for the movie soundtrack by Ric Wake. Check Out:(www.myspace.com/jonmclaughlin) You can currently access four of his tunes: “Beautiful Disaster,” “Indiana,” “Industry,” and “Human.” Jon has 1.4 million plays on his myspace site and can also be reached via http://www.jonmclaughlinmusic.com/. CBS NEWS 6/26/2007 3:39 PM GMT (FINDITT)