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Singer-songwriter Matisyahu has been on a journey inward for more than a decade. The journey has been private and public. The journey has at times been explicitly external, even while being driven by internal change. Now, nearly thirteen years after the release of his first studio record, Matisyahu and his band have done something unmatched in his past repertoire; they have crafted that journey into a musically thematic eight-song-movement.
The band features longtime guitarist Aaron Dugan, Dub Trio’s bassist and drummer Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino, and keyboard virtuoso BigYuki — and the journey starts with them. The band improvised for hours in the studio with Matisyahu watching on as an admirer without singing a single lyric. Out of the improvisations grew melodic themes, rhythmic peaks and valleys, blissful and proto-song guitar passages, deep dub meditations and ultimately an inspired instrumental record unto itself. Only once the band had crafted this musical narrative, did Matisyahu begin to work on a lyrical narrative of his own — a lyrical narrative that is simultaneously informed and integrated with the music yet driven by Matisyahu’s own personal journey. The result is Undercurrent, Matisyahu’s sixth studio album.
The record is musically Matisyahu’s most courageous release to date and lyrically his most vulnerable.
The courage in the music comes from trust. Trust in the band. And only in the band. There are no post-production bells and whistles, excessive overdub distractions, or litany of special guests on Undercurrent. On the opening track, “Step Out into the Light” the band lays out a repetitive minimalist verse section that anchors the listener in a near meditative loop only to open up into a gorgeous set of chord changes that makes the chorus feel revelatory, as if the listener has earned this release, and can achieve the song-title’s call to action.
By the record’s third track, “Coming Up Empty” the band has established melodic themes that will be called upon or re-harmonized later in the record, and just two songs in, it is clear that these musicians are road-tested, brave- song-crafters, with tens-of-thousands of hours playing together embedded in their muscles and fortified in their bones.
The vulnerability in the lyrics comes from acceptance. Acceptance in uncertainty. Acceptance in the actions of one’s younger self and acceptance that while the future may be uncertain, having the courage to trust gives us all the best chance at meaningful relationships. It’s a lyrical reframing of the Jewish philosophical differences between emunah (faith) and bitachon (trust). Faith, the constant, and trust the immediate. Matisyahu sets the stage for this conceptually on the record’s opening track, but he digs in internally on the authoritative plea in the chorus of “Back to the Old”, [I’m giving up, I’m giving in / All I got is what’s right in front of me / Is the people that I see…]. He projects it outwardly through questioning in “Forest of Faith”, [What’s a man got to do, Oh! / To get through to you?] And finally works towards acceptance on the guitar-driven gem “Headright”, [And I know feelings come and go / How should hold on, should I let go].
These forces direct the journey of Undercurrent, and as the record progresses the music begins to open up into full band improvisations like a relationship becoming more trusting, willing to take chances, knowing there’s acceptance in the process. A stunning example of this is on the record’s fifth track “Tell Me”. If you stop the song at the three-and-a-half-minute mark, you have a great reggae-tinged pop tune that promises to make a hit radio single. The track however continues for another six-and-half-minutes, beginning with a beautifully re-harmonized keyboard reference to the song’s opening wordless vocal melody. From there the entire band begins to improvise. Each player speaking briefly but with purpose, adding slowly and deliberately to the conversation. Drums and bass falling in and out. Guitar and keyboards calling back and forth to each other. The listener can almost intuit the personalities of each musician. The musical conversation continues to build, each band member adding to the
improvisation without playing on top of one another. Trust and respect. This is truly Matisyahu the band. Matisyahu the singer is patiently waiting for the band to direct the journey, and he joins back in with a near whisper as the rhythm section finds that incomparable dub groove Brooks and Tomino are famous for.
The level of interplay between Matisyahu and his bandmates on Undercurrent is unquestionable and requires multiple listens. Each repetition of a song reveals a guitar line from Dugan that elevates a vocal melody that only 15 years of experience together can achieve. Keyboard patterns from Yuki unrealized in a previous listen connect one song to another and the full band improvisations that climax with an impressive exploratory section on the record’s final track “Driftin’” achieve the rare feat of capturing a band’s live potential on a studio album.
Ultimately, Undercurrent, is a fully realized concept album crafted by a band-of- brothers who have learned to hold a conversation that is both comforting and challenging at the same time. It plays like a revelatory session with a great psychotherapist.
Like someone watching an ocean wave move chaotically towards the shore unaware of the undercurrent pulling mightily back in the opposite direction, Matisyahu and his band have achieved a musical retelling of the Matisyahu story that explores the forces within that inspire us all, challenge us all, break us down, lift us up, and yet are rarely obvious to the outside observer.
— Adam Weinberg
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As a pastor, theologian, author, filmmaker, and community organizer, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou has dedicated his life’s work to social justice. He’s given lectures and speeches around the world and trained thousands of people in the tactics of nonviolent protest. Now, he’s lending his passion for activism to a popular form of protest: music. His forthcoming record, In Times Like These, on Thirty Tigers, features brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars. The fact that the Dickinson brothers’ moniker is a nod to the music of their home state makes their pairing with Sekou all the more fitting. Sekou was born in St. Louis but raised in Arkansas, where he was immersed in the South’s deep blues and gospel tradition. In Times Like These pays as much homage to place as it does to time.
“I recorded the album, in part, to keep track of the best of the blues tradition,” Sekou says. “It’s what I was raised on. It is the nature of the musical tradition that produced me, and so I’m just trying to honor the ways in which that music comes to speak to the best of ourselves.”
By working through a deep-rooted musical heritage, Sekou uses the language of the past to inform the present, serving up a direct response to the current political climate. “We recorded this album a few weeks after the election and so, given the spirit of the moment, the sense of depression, almost desperation that many people were feeling, I wanted to keep track of that music and that musical tradition that has preserved the people,” Sekou explains.
The album is a life raft of sorts, keeping everyone afloat who is all too familiar with that sinking feeling. “[The album seeks] to acknowledge the blues but not let the blues have the last word,” he says.
Sekou has been communicating with the blues his whole life.
“My biological grandfather played with B.B. King, Albert King, and Louis Jordan,” he recalls. “In the South, they would sweep the yard and put a piano on the porch and [my grandfather] would play and they’d sing and dance and drink all night.” Sekou never met his grandfather, who died in 1955, long before he was born, but he remembers hearing the blues in the gambling house where he worked for his uncle, counting money. While recording In Times Like These, Sekou took a break from the Dickinsons’ Zebra Ranch Studio in Coldwater, Mississippi, and made a trek home to Zent, Arkansas.
“I got a chance to go home and stand at my grandmother’s grave, the place that made me, and talk to my 93-year-old aunt and see my cousins and to be in the space and with the people who built out the capacity of who I am by tearing off the best pieces of themselves and sewing it into a quilt that still covers and warms me to this day,” he says.
Sekou channeled that energy back at the studio on the song “Old Time Religion.” “It was midnight, and we had been going for about 16 hours, and I had been to my grandmother’s grave and my grandfather’s grave and, in our tradition, we have this thing called devotional service, which is distinct from praise and worship,” he explains. “It’s what old country folks would do. And so I just did old-time religion music, which is essentially what I heard growing up in terms of a devotional service on Sunday morning.”
In order to achieve this sound, Sekou was working with a slew of musicians who had their own strong musical ties. Luther and Cody Dickinson’s father, the late Jim Dickinson, recorded with the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, and Bob Dylan. For the sessions, they recruited pedal and slide steel guitarist AJ Ghent, Rev. Charles Hodges on the Hammond B3, who is most recognized for his collaborations with Al Green, and others.
“In addition to trying to respond to the contemporary political moment, there’s something else at stake: Everybody was at least one or two generations — if not three generations — deep in the music so there are literally four generations of musicians on this album,” Sekou explains. “And so it was amazing, you know, in that they have the music in their bones, which I think comes through on the record.”
The album’s first single, “Resist,” is a tribute to Standing Rock and revolves around a mantra: “We want freedom and we want it now.” Elsewhere on the record, a cover of Bob Marley’s “Burnin’ and Lootin’” stems from Sekou’s time in Ferguson, Missouri, protesting the shooting of Michael Brown.
“I’ve helped train about 5,000 people around the country in civil disobedience, non-violence, and we trained well over a thousand in Ferguson. And we kept telling them to trust the process, trust the system, it’s gonna work out,” he recalls. “There were military forces occupying Ferguson and they were tear gassing us night after night and it was essentially a war zone. And on the night of the non-indictment, as soon as they said they weren’t going to indict the officer, all hell broke loose, and I was trying to get to a studio that had been set up and I had my staff with me and they wouldn’t let my staff in. And, at this point, there’s gun shots, buildings are burning, there’s tear gas everywhere, and they were saying, ‘We’ll let you in, but we can’t let your staff in for security reasons.’ And so I refused to do the interview and I was just in the middle of the riots. I refused to go into the compound. And so it’s me kind of capturing what I’m seeing with the tear gas and the buildings on fire and feeling as though I have failed and I had lied to the young folks by telling them that the system would work on their behalf.”
In the wake of these experiences, Sekou, who went to college on a vocal performance scholarship, looked toward the music for release. “At the existential level, I am my freest,” Sekou says. “And so, hopefully, that freedom I feel is communicated through the music.”
European Tour Dates (with North Mississippi Allstars)
JUNE
22 – Bellinzona Blues Sessions – Bellinzona, SWI
25 – Oran Mor – Glasgow, UK
27 – Komedia – Brighton, UK
28 – Dingwalls – London, UK
29 – The Ruby Lounge – Manchester, UK
JULY
01 Lakeside Blues Festival – Järvenpää, FIN
02 – Solhällan – Österland, SWE
04 – Hwitan – Falkenberg, SWE
05 – Pustervik – Göteborg, SWE
06 John Dee – Oslo, NOR
07 – Kagelbanan – Stockholm, SWE
08 – Katalin – Uppsala, SWE
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MAY
30 – Latest Music Bar – Brighton, UK
31 – Bush Hall – London, UK
JUNE
02 – Brudenell Games Room – Leeds, UK
03 – King Tut’s – Glasgow, UK
04 – Mash House – Edinburgh, IRL
05 – Voodoo – Belfast, IRL
06 – Workmans Club – Dublin, IRL
08 – Soup Kitchen – Manchester, UK
09 – The Portland Arms – Cambridge, UK
10 – SUPERSONIC – Paris, FRA
12 – Red Room – Nottingham, UK
13 – Fibbers – York, UK
15 – The Horn – St Albans, UK
Who Will be next? – Joe Purdy’s latest record is an album for the current status quo in the world with very poignant compositions – which plant their feet deep in the tradition of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and others, in line with him as a self-described ‘hillbilly’ and with a different role from the songwriter who’s songs appear in many films and TV shows.
The 20th Anniversary continues with a superb reissue of K, released to coincide with its companion
K2.0 (USA version with extra track released through Thirty Tigers US) is now available including the brand new song 2 Styx
The band have been on tour all year, performed an amazing acoustic version of Govinda on Radio 2 in Holland last week
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Remastered CD & LP Out Now Includes the singles Hey Dude, Govinda, Tattva and Grateful WhenYou’re Dead. Featuring an extensive essay exploring the times in which the album was conceived, the key players, the craft of the music, the artwork and the impact and the legacy it has left.
Kula Shaker will play the following UK dates in December 2016
performing K in its entirety!
Thu 1 Dec Oxford O2 Academy
Fri 2 Dec Bournmouth O2 Academy
Sat 3 Dec Nottingham Rock City
Mon 5 Dec Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
Tues 6 Dec Guildford G Live
Thu 8 Dec London O2 Forum, Kentish Town – sold out
Fri 9 Dec London O2 Forum, Kentish Town NEW
Sat 10 Dec Manchester Albert Hall
Mon 12 Dec Birmingham O2 Institute
Tues 13 Dec Bristol O2 Academy
Wed 14 Dec Liverpool O2 Academy
Fri 16 Dec Newcastle O2 Academy
Sat 17 Dec Leeds O2 Academy
Sun 18 Dec Glasgow ABC O2
Tickets and information at www.kulashaker.co.uk
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Aaron Watson opens the next chapter of his career with the lead single “Outta Style” which proceeds a new full album due Q1 2017. This is the first taste of new music from Watson to follow up his historic album The Underdog which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Charts less than 2 years ago. Since then, Watson has been touring the country selling out shows coast to coast, as well as appearing on several of the most recognisable US and EU festivals. It’s contemporary yet classic Watson. He knows his lane and doesn’t veer from it. Aaron Watson returns to the UK in January 2017 to follow up his very successful 2016 tour to which he sold out London several weeks in advance as well as having full rooms in Manchester and Birmingham and will expand his touring base to Glasgow and Dublin.
BIG Record Label
25/01/17 – Oran Mor, Glasgow
26/01/17 – Night & Day, Manchester
27/01/17 – Garage, London
28/01/17 – Whelans, Dublin
An AEG Live presentation in association with CAA
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The highly anticipated first track from the multi award winning American Gospel Singer CeCe Winans is released this month with immediate radio and press acclaim. The best-selling and most awarded female artist in Gospel music and recognisable voice sets the tone for her forthcoming album which will be released worldwide in February 2017.
Puresprings Gospel Records
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‘My Boots’ is the first single from Whitney Rose’s forthcoming 2017 EP which was premiered by Rolling Stone. The country-pop singer’s infatuation with Texas’ rich musical culture, from stage to studio to dance floor, informs an enthralling new project, a love letter to the Lone Star State. Whitney Rose will also be on an extensive European Tour from March with the UK leg in April 2017.
Six Shooter Records
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Recording artist Cakes Da Killa is a 25-year-old rapper with five critically-acclaimed mixtapes under his belt. His 2013 release The Eulogy solidified him as “one of hip hop’s most exciting new voices,” according to The Needle Drop as well as a ferocious rapper who Pitchfork stated was, “the closest thing to a raunchy figure with enough on-mic charisma to convince you it’s an admirable personality type.”
This raw intensity has also garnered him praise from the likes of Red Bull, Afropunk and The Fader. Cakes Da Killa’s unique sound is a mix of various musical influences and his underground experience. Praised for his lyrical wordplay, flow, and delivery Cakes has quickly carved a lane for himself in music as a trailblazer. Worth more than just a mention on a queer hip hop trend piece, Cakes Da Killa is a talent not to be slept on.
Cakes has as an international following that’s brought him to places around Europe, Canada and Australia, all the while shattering the preconceived notions of what it takes to be a respected lyricist in hip hop. Rightly bragging that he can, “spit that shit to make a homophobe a hypocrite,” he continues to prove the statement true with each new release. He has been featured in various printed publications globally and television specials such as VH1’s LHH: Out in Hip Hop and VICE’s Gaycation.
Upcoming Live Dates
11/4 Paris, FRA – Le Showcase
11/5 Rotterdam, NLD – MTV Music Week
11/6 Amsterdam, NLD – Paradiso
11/8 Gent, BEL – Grand Hotel Reylof
11/18 London, UK – Camden Assembly
11/24 Berlin, GER – Columbiahalle w/ Peaches
11/25 Hamburg, GER – Uebel & Gefährlich w/ Peaches
11/26 Luzern, SWI – Sudpol
11/29 Lyon, FRA – L’Epicerie Moderne w/ Peaches
11/30 Toulouse, FRA – Le Bikini w/ Peaches
12/3 Rome, ITA – Quirinetta
12/10 Vienna, AUS – Cafe Leopold
12/14 Geneva, SWI – La Gravière
12/15 St Gallen, SWI – Palace
Tracklisting:
Hedonism [Intro]
Keep It Goin
Been Dat Did That
Up Out My Face
New Phone (Who Dis)
Gon Blow
Frostin’ [Interlude]
Tru Luv
Talkin Greezy
Revelations [Outro]
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“America’s sharpest musical storyteller.” – Rolling Stone
You don’t expect barrelhouse boogie woogie, straight up garage rock or power pop from the ratchety voice who gave you “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues,” the iconic East Nashville Skyline or the Great American Taxi-backed Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker.
Yet fresh from fronting the freewheeling social commentary of the jam-meets-Tom Petty Hard Working Americans – featuring Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools and Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s Neal Casal – Todd Snider’s Eastside Bulldog suggests there’s a new kinda rumble under the hood of the iconoclastic troubadour.
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Luke Bell’s backstory could’ve come out of the pages of a novel by Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane or Cormac McCarthy.
A fth-generation descendant of Wyoming homesteaders, the ranch hand turned troubadour has seen a lot of life in his 26 years on this mortal coil, and his self titled album serves as a rollicking document of his experiences. The record is teeming with colorful characters, captured in hardscrabble yarns of living hard and drink- ing harder, making bad choices and laughing them off. There’s a little bit of their author in each of these awed but redeemable characters—and at a time when authenticity is in short supply, Luke Bell has come along to remind us what it feels like to be truly alive and open to the possibilities of existence in a captivating song cycle that puts the cowboy back into country & western.
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11th November 2016
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First Single ‘ NOBODY ‘
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Yamagata’s is a career punctuated by 3 previous albums, 5 EP releases and various collaborations with the likes of Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and Ray LaMontagne, but the Virginian singer-songwriter chose to challenge herself thematically with this new album. This decision was, in part, induced by Philippe Petit – the French high-wire artist famed for tightrope walking between the two World Trade Centres in 1974 – who, when asked why he performed such a feat, simply responded ‘there is no why’. This notion of inwardly searching for reasons resonated strongly with Yamagata and, as such, her mentality and approach towards writing songs began to shift. As a collection of tracks began to emerge, Tightrope Walker was born.
Yamagata’s creative process, as well her as her outlook on her life and art, also shifted over the conception of the new album; she had become a mother, a self-manager and a producer; she became driven by the idea of owning her own power, much like the influential figure of Petit. She switched from the usual procedure of vetting around 200 songs for an album and focused instead on just 15, editing and reworking each to find the exact musical expression that would hold for each song.
Rachael Yamagata presents Tightrope Walker with a series of intimate Live UK shows:
17th November – The Islington, London
20th November – The Islington, London
21st November – The Kings Arms, Manchester
22nd November – Mono, Glasgow
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“I didn’t have to do this,” says Carl Broemel, referring to his new solo album, 4th of July, as a member of My Morning Jacket, Broemel spent the past few years working rock ’n’ roll hours (that is to say, 24/7) with his bandmates to help establish MMJ as one of the best live rock bands currently in the game. Their combined efforts proved successful.
But something stirred within him and during lulls between album and tour cycles, when he could’ve opted to vacation or catch up on sleep, Broemel instead booked studio sessions in Nashville and, over a four year span of these tiny windows, recorded the sprawling collection of songs that form 4th of July.
Recorded over different periods of Broemel’s life, the songs point to a soulful awareness of inner life and the passage of time – thoughts that ponder their own reflection, marveling perhaps at how different our lives look now from the engrained images of ourselves that we’ve held onto from an earlier time.
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Rachael Yamagata
Tightrope Walker
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Yamagata’s creative process, as well her as her outlook on her life and art, also shifted over the conception of the new album; she had become a mother, a self-manager and a producer; she became driven by the idea of owning her own power, much like the influential figure of Petit. She switched from the usual procedure of vetting around 200 songs for an album and focused instead on just 15, editing and reworking each to find the exact musical expression that would hold for each song.
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Tanya Tagaq
Retribution
21 October 2016 – Live dates to come late January
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Inuit artist Tanya Tagaq won the Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album in 2014, for Animism. Those who thought she had then made her definitive artistic statement are in for a surprise. Also in for a shock are those who thought international success, playing to major festivals and packed houses all over the world, would lead to a mellower sound, or a more laid back approach.
Tagaq follows up Animism with Retribution, an even more musically aggressive, more aggressively political, more challenging, more spine tingling, more powerful masterpiece. This album is a cohesive, whole statement. Why sugarcoat it? This album is about rape. Rape of women, rape of the land, rape of children, despoiling of traditional lands without consent. Hence the chilling cover version of Nirvana’s song “Rape Me.”
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Cakes Da Killa
Hedonism
21 October 2016 – Live at AFROPUNK UK 24th September
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Recording artist Cakes Da Killa is a 25-year-old rapper with five critically-acclaimed mixtapes under his belt. His 2013 release The Eulogy solidified him as “one of hip hop’s most exciting new voices,” according to The Needle Drop as well as a ferocious rapper who Pitchfork stated was, “the closest thing to a raunchy figure with enough on-mic charisma to convince you it’s an admirable personality type.” This raw intensity has also garnered him praise from the likes of Red Bull, Afropunk and The Fader. Cakes along with Philadelphia based producer Noah Breakfast collided one night at Red Bull Studios and created a sizzling mantra for any underdog that has been slept on.
Cakes has an European following. Rightly bragging that he can, “spit that shit to make a homophobe a hypocrite,” he continues to prove the statement true with each new release. Talkin’ Greezy is the first single from the long awaited return of the lyrical menace Cakes Da Killa and will start the campaign alongside an exclusive track out with Converse. After an upsetting heartbreak that birthed the #IMF EP, Cakes is back with the same raw intensity, witty wordplay and flow that established him as one of hip hop’s freshest faces.
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John Prine’s Oh Boy Records Announces Exclusive Distribution Partnership With Thirty Tigers
Oh Boy Records, the independent label founded in 1981 by songwriter John Prine and his manager Al Bunetta, is excited to announce their exclusive music distribution partnership with Thirty Tigers. From July 1st Thirty Tigers will officially manage the European distribution as part of the worldwide distribution agreement of Oh Boy’s physical and digital catalogue, as well as upcoming projects. Prine says of the partnership, “We get to make the music we want to, in the way we always have, with support from a company that works with many other independent artists I admire.”
Oh Boy Records and Thirty Tigers are both based in Nashville, TN, which will make for a close working relationship. “There are a few moments in this business that I will always remember, and I’ll put right at the top of the list when I found out that we were being bestowed the honour of fighting for the music of John Prine,” says Thirty Tigers Founder David Macias. “The wit, the empathy, the songwriting perfection have been the North Star for so many artists, and his music has meant so much to me personally. I can’t wait to get started.”
Founded at a time when artist-run labels were extremely rare, Oh Boy Records has become one of the most respected independent labels in the business. In 2015, after the sudden passing of Al Bunetta, Prine became the sole owner and President of OBR. Now a family run company, John’s wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, is Managing Partner, oldest son, Jody Whelan is Director of Operations. Supporting Jody with day-to-day operations is Eileen Tilson, Director of Marketing. Whelan agrees, “We’re very excited to start working with Thirty Tigers. Oh Boy Records is a label dedicated to songwriters and their craft, and Thirty Tigers will help support us in sharing our catalogue with fans all over the world. And we’ve got some great new projects that we can’t wait to announce!”
About Oh Boy Records
As one of the longest-running independent and artist-owned labels in the country, Oh Boy Records has released recordings by singer-songwriters such as Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Shawn Camp, Dan Reeder and Todd Snider, along with reissues of classic country music artists including Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty and more.
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