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Yellow Dog Records

Where innovation confronts tradition...

About Me

Yellow Dog Records carries the living lore of authentic American music into the present. Featuring new interpretations of Blues, Jazz, Soul, and Americana styles by established and emerging artists, Yellow Dog Records is where innovation confronts tradition. What’s left after the collision? Inspired explorations of America’s musical roots.
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Member Since: 9/24/2005
Band Website: yellowdogrecords.com
Band Members: Eden Brent, Asylum Street Spankers, The Soul of John Black, Fiona Boyes, Mary Flower, Mark Lemhouse, William Lee Ellis, Terry Robb, Chris Cotton, The Bo-Keys, Big Joe Duskin, Calvin Newborn, Bluff City Backsliders
Influences: A sampling of music we love:Louis Armstrong, Asylum Street Spankers, Packy Axton, Sidney Bechet, Robert Belfour, The Blue-Eyed Devils, The Blues Brothers (really!), Bluff City Backsliders, The Bo-Keys, Booker T. and the MGs, Brass Bands, Big Bill Broonzy, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Bob Brozman, Burlesque music, R.L. Burnside, Cab Calloway, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, The Cheap Suit Serenaders, Charlie Christian, Patsy Cline, John Coltrane, Chris Cotton, Detroit Junior, Jim Dickinson, Dixie Hummingbirds, Big Joe Duskin, Duke Ellington, Tony Ellis, William Lee Ellis, Emmet Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Flatt and Scruggs, Mary Flower, Guy Forsyth, Jason Freeman, Mary Gauthier, Dizzy Gillespie, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Hot Club of Cowtown, Impala, Mahalia Jackson, Blind Willie Johnson, Sharon Jones, Jug Bands, King Wilkie, The Kitchen Syncopators, Klezmer music, Leadbelly, Mark Lemhouse, Willie Mabon, Branford Marsalis, Jimbo Mathus, Fred McDowell, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Miles Davis, Memphis music, Memphix, Memphis Minnie, Mofro, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Gatemouth Moore, Jason Moran, Frank Morey, Jelly Roll Morton, Mudboy and the Neutrons, Mylab, New Orleans music, Phineas Newborn, Jr., Calvin Newborn, North Mississippi Allstars, Tim O'Brien, Old Crow Medicine Show, Charlie Parker, Elvis Presley, Ma Rainey, Tarbox Ramblers, Tampa Red, Django Reinhardt, Tony Rice, Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Terry Robb, Jimmie Rodgers, Shangri-La Records, The Sirens Records, Stanley Smith, Bessie Smith, South Austin Jug Band, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Stax, Sun Records, Otis Taylor, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Othar Turner, Tom Waits, Fats Waller, Muddy Waters, WEVL, Dr. Michael White, Hank Williams, The Wiyos, Howlin' Wolf
Sounds Like:Eden Brent Described by one critic as "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin," Eden Brent is a masterful blues & boogie pianist and vocal stylist who combines elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop.Asylum Street Spankers "A roots-rock riddle, nestled in a satirical Vaudeville enigma, packaged in an old-timey radio-show puzzle and slathered with hippie-fried mystery sauce." –Tampa Weekly PlanetFiona Boyes Sassy and soulful electric and acoustic blues from the first Australian &ndash and first woman – to win the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge and to be nominated for a Blues Music Award.Mary Flower Blues, Folk, Rags, Swing, Fingerpicking, Lap-Steel, springwater-clear vocals... nominated for Acoustic Artist of the Year by the Blues Foundation.Mark Lemhouse Genre-defying, Handy-nominated explorer of Americana, Blues, and any other roots music style that strikes his fancy. A distinctly contemporary songwriting voice filtering the emotion of Hank Williams Sr. through the attitude of Tom Waits.William Lee Ellis International accolades abound for acoustic Americana/blues artist William Lee Ellis, a Memphis-based master guitarist who has been described as a wizard on steel strings with an ability to render time and history irrelevant, and whose albums have been hailed as a rare piece of art.Terry Robb Acoustic Blues with a contemporary edge from eighteen-time winner of the Cascade Blues Associations Muddy Award.Chris Cotton Harkening back to the days when the distinction between blues and country was hopelessly blurred, rising Americana / blues guitarist Chris Cotton places his own stamp on roots styles ranging from the Piedmont to North Mississippi.The Bo-Keys Incendiary soul/jazz/funk &ndash a hard-hitting and authentic modern take on Memphis original soul-stew sound. Featuring Stax musicians Skip Pitts, Willie Hall, and Ronnie Williams.Calvin Newborn Guitar genius Calvin Newborn played on B.B. King's first recordings, taught Elvis how to dance, and tore up the Big Apple in the heyday of bop...Big Joe Duskin Legendary patriarch of Cincinnati blues and boogie piano presents his first new studio recording in nearly 2 decades...Bluff City Backsliders Modern-day practitioners of barrelhouse, honky-tonk, Delta-bred sacramental hoo-doo music that is profane as it is glorious...
Record Label: Yellow Dog Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Yellow Dog Records signs Eden Brent

On the eve of this year's International Blues Challenge, we're thrilled to announce the signing of 2006 IBC winner Eden Brent, a masterful blues and boogie pianist and vocal stylist. Dubbed "Little Bo...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:15:00 PST

Three Yellow Dog artists nominated for Blues Music Awards

Yellow Dog Records is well-represented in this year's Blues Music Awards, with three artists recognized with award nominations. The Soul of John Black and his Yellow D...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:07:00 PST

New SoJB videos

Posted recently -- a couple of videos for JB aka The Soul of John Black:I Got WorkDeez Bluesa great mini-documentary that shows what JB is all about...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:06:00 PST

WLE on Mountain Stage this week

William Lee Ellis appears on the nationally syndicated Mountain Stage radio program this week, as part of a star-studded lineup including Leon Redbone, Tracy Nelson, an...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:05:00 PST

The Good Girl Blues named finalist in Independent Music Awards!

The Good Girl Blues, the new album from The Soul of John Black, has been nominated as one of five finalists for "Blues Album of the Year" in the 2007 Independent Music Awards. The other finalists are ...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:04:00 PST

The Soul of John Black

It's been called "the freshest-sounding blues album of this new century," "one of the year's most ambitious and sophisticated projects," and "one of the best listens of the year". The Good Girl Blues,...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:00 PST

We're Gonna Miss You, Joe

Blues piano legend Big Joe Duskin passed away at home Sunday morning at age 86.A boogie-woogie piano player, Duskin may have been part of the generation that produced legends like BB King and Muddy Wa...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:19:00 PST

New compilation from Mary Flower!

Mary Flower is renowned for her springwater-clear vocals, beautiful original compositions, and above all, mastery of fingerpicking and lap-slide guitar styles. In fact, she's the only woman to place t...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:02:00 PST

Fiona Boyes' Lucky 13 nominated Contemporary Blues Album of the Year!

We're thrilled that Lucky 13, the debut album for Yellow Dog Records by Fiona Boyes, has been nominated for a Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year! Read the full press re...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:51:00 PST

William Lee Ellis featured on Beale Street Caravan

Nationally syndicated radio show Beale Street Caravan is broadcasting a recording of a live performance by William Lee Ellis, recorded earlier this year. WLE was joined by a who's who of musical Memph...
Posted by Yellow Dog Records on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST