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New Album by Mark Lemhouse
Mark Lemhouse‘s debut album, Big Lonesome Radio, breathed fresh air into the traditional blues world, earning a pair of Handy award nominations including “Best New Artist Debut.” But like the great roots innovators who inspired him, Mark Lemhouse is a restless spirit who can’t be confined to any one corner of the American roots landscape. His highly-anticipated follow-up, The Great American Yard Sale, finds the genre-defying guitarist plugging in and heading out into edgy Americana territory, armed with banjo and electric lap steel as well as his deftly fingerpicked National guitar.
Update 11/05: The track “Cluck Old Hen” is featured on the CD Sampler in the current issue of Blues Revue Magazine!
Update 12/05:The track “Scarlet” is featured on the CD Sampler in the current issue of Paste Magazine!
- More details and sound samples
- Album shipping now! Visit the Order page to get your copy.
Chris Cotton – I Watched the Devil Die
Chris Cotton‘s new disc I Watched the Devil Die is receiving great airplay! It’s charted for the past two months on the Living Blues radio chart as well as the Roots Music Report radio chart. Produced by Jimbo Mathus and recorded with local musicians in Clarksdale, MS, the album is a modern-day jam session with all the boisterous spirit of a classic rent party.
Chris was featured in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Visit Chris’ calendar for details of his upcoming tour to Eugene, Portland and Seattle. Update: plenty of great reviews are coming in! We’ve added another new batch of them to the site.
- More details and sound samples
- Press quotes and reviews
- Album shipping now! Visit the Order page to get your copy.
In other news…
- We’re thrilled to announce the signing of Mary Flower! A double threat with fingerstyle and lap slide guitar, we highly recommend her last album Ragtime Gal. For her upcoming release on Yellow Dog Records, she traveled to New Orleans to record with a full lineup of some of the city’s best musicians, including Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, and Dr. Michael White. Look for the new album, Bywater Dance, this fall – join our mailing list to keep up-to-date on dates and details.
- Congratulations to Big Joe Duskin for his award of an Ohio Heritage Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council! This is on the heels of his feature on the cover of the current issue of Living Blues Magazine.
- For those of you paying close attention… Mark Lemhouse‘s new album is just about ready as well. If you want to be one of the very first people to have a copy, you can order an advance copy from our Order Page now.
- The entire Yellow Dog Records catalog is available on iTunes! Someday, we’ll have links from our Order Page so you can purchase individual tracks from iTunes.
- UPDATE (Aug 2010): you can now purchase individual tracks as well as entire digital albums directly from us — look for “Download” links from the albums on our music page.