Saddle Creek Records
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Saddle Creek Records | |
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Founded | 1993 |
Founder(s) | Robb Nansel Justin Oberst Conor Oberst Mike Mogis |
Distributing label | Sony (US) |
Genre(s) | Indie rock |
Country of Origin | US |
Location | Omaha, Nebraska |
Website | Official site of Saddle Creek Records |
Saddle Creek Records is an independent record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. The label was founded by Robb Nansel and Mike Mogis in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). The label is named after Saddle Creek Road, a street that cuts through the east side of midtown Omaha, and the beginnings of a scene whose members included Conor Oberst (then a solo artist), Tim Kasher (then of Slowdown Virginia), and others. Collectively, they were known unofficially as the 'Creekers'. Saddle Creek first appeared in print on a show flyer, offering to 'Spend an evening with Saddle Creek' (later to be the title of the label's DVD.) [1] Saddle Creek became an incorporated entity as a class project for the two on entrepreneurship. Justin Oberst, brother of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, stepped in to fill the shoes of Mogis around 1998, with Mogis moving more into recording and production. Distribution is handled by the Alternative Distribution Alliance.
Saddle Creek Records continues to be the flagship label of a style of music that is beginning to be called the Omaha Sound, characterized by a slight country twang. This is increasingly inaccurate, though, with the rise of more electronic sounds such as those favored by The Faint and Broken Spindles. The eclectic sounds of Saddle Creek's disparate member bands is somewhat explained by their history; a number of the original members of the label attended grade school together (Oberst himself was 13 years old at the time of the first Lumberjack release, Conor Oberst's "Water"). A "brother label," of sorts, to Saddle Creek is Team Love, started by Conor Oberst in 2004.
In 2005, Spend An Evening with Saddle Creek, a documentary detailing the first ten years of the record label's history, was released. The DVD features extensive interviews with the Saddle Creek bands, archival footage, and rare live performances.
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[edit] Bands
- Azure Ray
- Beep Beep
- Bright Eyes
- Broken Spindles
- Criteria
- Cursive
- Desaparecidos
- Eric Bachmann
- The Faint
- The Good Life
- Ladyfinger (ne)
- Maria Taylor
- Mayday
- Neva Dinova
- Now It's Overhead
- Orenda Fink
- Son, Ambulance
- Sorry About Dresden
- Two Gallants
[edit] Past Bands
- Commander Venus
- Gabardine
- Lullaby for the Working Class
- Park Ave.
- Polecat
- Rilo Kiley
- Slowdown Virginia
- Smashmouth
- We'd Rather Be Flying
[edit] Discography
- LBJ-01 Conor Oberst - Water CS
- LBJ-02 Polecat - Dilly Dally CS
- LBJ-03 Slowdown Virginia - Dead Space CD
- LBJ-04 Smashmouth - Some of You Will Be Hermits CS
- LBJ-05 Polecat/Sunbrain Split (7")
- LBJ-07 We'd Rather Be Flying - The Solution.... CD
- LBJ-08 Norman Bailer - Sine Sierra CS
- LBJ-09 Commander Venus/Lux-O-Values/Norman Bailer/Weld - Music Me All Over 7"
- LBJ-11 Lullaby for the Working Class - Consolation 7"
- LBJ-13 Drip / Commander Venus - Split (7")
- LBJ-14 The Wrens/Park Ave. Split 7”*OUT OF PRINT*
- LBJ-15 Lullaby for the Working Class - In Honor of my Stumbling 7"
- LBJ-17 Lullaby for the Working Class - I Never Even Asked for Light LP
- LBJ-21 The Faint - Media (CD)
- LBJ-23 Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness (CD)
- LBJ-25 Faint, The/Ex-Action Figures Split 7"
- LBJ-28 The Faint - Blank-Wave Arcade (CD, LP)
- LBJ-30 Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night (CD)
- LBJ-31 Cursive - Domestica (CD)
- LBJ-32 Bright Eyes - Fevers And Mirrors (LP)
- LBJ-33 The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade Remix
- LBJ-35 Cursive - Burst And Bloom (CD)
- LBJ-36 Son, Ambulance - Euphemystic
- LBJ-37 The Faint - The Danse Macabre (CD, LP)
- LBJ-40 Desaparecidos - The Happiest Place On Earth (CD5")
- LBJ-42 Desaparecidos - Read Music, Speak Spanish (CD)
- LBJ-45 Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning To The Story EP (12")
- LBJ-46 Bright Eyes - Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (CD, LP)
- LBJ-49 Cursive - Art Is Hard (CD5")
- LBJ-50 Various Artists - Saddle Creek at 50 (CP, LP)
- LBJ-51 Cursive - The Ugly Organ (CD, LP)
- LBJ-53 Bright Eyes - Vinyl Box Set (5xLP + 2x12" + Box Set)
- LBJ-54 Azure Ray - Hold On Love (LP)
- LBJ-59 Cursive - The Recluse (CD5")
- LBJ-61 Broken Spindles - Move Away (Promo) (12")
- LBJ-61 Broken Spindles - Fulfilled / Complete (CD)
- LBJ-63 Beep Beep - Business Casual (CD, LP)
- LBJ-64 The Good Life - Album of the Year
- LBJ-66 The Faint - I Disappear (CD5")
- LBJ-67 The Faint - Wet From Birth (LP)
- LBJ-67 The Faint - Wet From Birth (CDE (Enhanced CD))
- LBJ-68 Bright Eyes - Lua (CD5")
- LBJ-69 Bright Eyes - Take It Easy (Love Nothing) (CD5")
- LBJ-70 Cursive - The Difference Between Houses And Homes (LP)
- LBJ-72 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (CD, LP)
- LBJ-73 Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (CD, LP)
- LBJ-82 Broken Spindles - Inside / Absent (LP)
- LBJ-85 Criteria - Prevent The World (CDs)
- LBJ-87 Various Artists - Lagniappe (CD)
- LBJ-91 Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells (CD, LP)
- LBJ-92 Two Gallants - Steady Rollin' (iTunes Exclusive)
- LBJ-93 Cursive - Dorothy at Forty (CD, 7")
- LBJ-94 Cursive - Happy Hollow (CD, LP)
- LBJ-95 Eric Bachmann - To The Races (CD)
- LBJ-97 Now It's Overhead - Dark Light Daybreak (CD)
- LBJ-98 Ladyfinger (ne) - Heavy Hands (CD)
- LBJ-99 Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005) (CD, 2*LP)
[edit] Compilations
- Saddle Creek Records, A Sampler (1998)
- Saddle Creek 50 (2002)
- Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina (2005)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek. Dir. Jason Kulbel and Rob Walters. DVD. Plexifilm, 2005.
[edit] External links
[edit] Interviews
- Lazy-i Interview: August 2001 with Robb Nansel
- Lazy-i Interview: March 2005 with Robb Nansel and Jason Kulbel
- Lazi-i Interview: September 2004 with Rilo Kiley
Saddle Creek Records |
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Artists |
Azure Ray | Beep Beep | Bright Eyes | Broken Spindles | Criteria | Cursive | Desaparecidos | Eric Bachmann | The Faint | The Good Life Ladyfinger (ne) | Maria Taylor | Mayday | Neva Dinova | Now It's Overhead | Orenda Fink | Son, Ambulance | Sorry About Dresden | Two Gallants |
Related artists |
The '89 Cubs | The Bruces | Commander Venus | Consafos | Gabardine | Head of Femur | Little Brazil | Lullaby for the Working Class | Park Ave. Polecat | Rilo Kiley | Slowdown Virginia | Smashmouth | Tilly and the Wall | We'd Rather Be Flying | The White Octave | |
Related topics |
The Cog Factory | Conor Oberst | Lagniappe | Mike Mogis | Music of Nebraska | Presto! Recording Studios | Robb Nansel | Saddle Creek 50 Simon Joyner | Sokol Auditorium | Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek | Team Love Records | Tim Kasher |