The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus • Music • Lonely Road CD

Two years have passed since The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, a group of friends from Middleburg, Florida emerged with their Virgin Records debut, Don’t You Fake It, which spent 62 weeks on Billboard’s Top 200, and going on to sell more than a million copies in the U.S. The platinum-plus single, “Face Down,” sold 1.5 million digital downloads, has been streamed almost 17 million times on MySpace and has since been retired after spending 52 weeks on the Top 20 Modern Rock chart.

On top of RJA’s musical accomplishments, they’ve spoken on Capitol Hill on behalf of teen suicide prevention and mental health parity, founded their own charitable organization and have even created a clothing line with skateboard legend Tony Hawk, but still remain under the radar and one of the biggest bands that no one’s heard of.

The band set out to change this when it came time to hit the studio for the all-important follow-up album. While at first being frustrated by they delay of the release, as a result of a music industry going through changes, Ronnie Winter is now convinced that the time spent working on the songs that became Lonely Road was well worth it.

“We’re taking this very seriously because we want to blow people away with these new songs. It’s a bit of a risk, a little departure, but it’s still Red Jumpsuit. We’re just playing cooler music… We’re gonna give ‘em hell.” - Ronnie Winter