Artists #4

Swamp Cabbage

· 3rd album, Drum Roll Please

· 6 tracks

· “[A] long-awaited collection of re-imagined seventies classics that are mostly instrumental and have been recorded to tape with no digital smoke and mirrors.”

Carl Rust

· 5th album, State of Zero

· 12 tracks

· “a collection of 12 stories, 12 points of view from different characters, about life, death, love, and spirit” – Rust

Melanie Rose Dyer

· The Long Way Around

· 11 tracks

· Dyer “delivers a heady sitillation of original roots rock and R& B flavored ‘real life’ songs.”

John Doe and Exene Cervenka

· Singing and Playing

· 8 tracks

· 7 original tracks and one live track

The Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show

· 1st album since 2003, Take Me Back

· 13 tracks

· Covers songs by Don Gibson, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Bob Wills, Faron Young, Willie Nelson & Floyd Tillman

· 2 new songs, “Song on the Jukebox” & “Open Up Your Heart”

Nathaniel Tann

· 3rd album, Production

· Single, Osmium Is My Air

· 2nd album was released in December 2011, Together in the Rain

Sandi Thom

· 4^th album, Flesh and Blood

· 12 tracks

· Single, The Sun Comes Crashing Down

· Features Rich Robinson, Steve Gorman of Black Crowes, Audley Freed and many others

The Mynabirds

· 2nd album, Generals, follows 2010’s debut album What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood

· 10 tracks that make up a protest record and concept album

· Unlike the Zen meditations that could be found on the 1st album, this one “is filled with armies of stomps and claps, sweeping full spectrum orchestrations, and moments that range from intensely personal pleas to shout-out-loud protests with teeth.”

· Album’s name comes from a photo by Richard Avedon entitled “Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution.”

Dan Kibler

· 4th solo album, Dan Kibler

· 4 tracks

· “[S]ound is reminiscent of Eagles, Elvis Costello” and others. “Lyrics that cut a cloth of simple emotion and imagery, with a tart taste of sardonic wit.”

New Riders of the Purple Sage

· 2nd album, 17 Pine Avenue

· 12 tracks

· Professor Louie special guests on 6 songs, playing Hammond organ & accordion

· Follows debut Where I Come From CD

Red June

· 2nd album, Beauty Will Come

· 11 tracks

· “Touches themes of transition, hope, loss and renewal with a rare sophistication and grace”

· Follows debut Remember Me Well

Screen Door Porch

· 2nd album, The Fate & The Fruit

· 12 tracks

· Follows 2010’s LP debut Screen Door Porch

· “Music evokes open space, dramatic textures and a genuine character”

The Mystix

· 4th album, Mighty Tone

· 12 tracks

· Pays tribute to influential blues, gospel & country artists & some original material

· Guest artists include Jerry Portnoy from Muddy Waters & Eric Clapton’s band, Matt Leavenworth, Jerry Tillman & Kevin Barry

Phil Madeira

· 2nd album, Mercyland: Hymns For The Rest of Us

· 12 tracks, 10 original, 2 traditional

· Contributing artists are The Civil Wars, Shawn Mullins, Cindy Morgan, and others

· Madeira “gathered…a group of musical friends who wanted to put out a positive message that perhaps God is just love.”

Rowan Cunningham Band

· 2nd full-length album, New Horizons

· 13 tracks, 10 are original having been written "by various combinations of the three musicians", last 3 are "clever" arrangements on traditional tunes