Rootscd.com is a small, friendly Roots music loving company based in the South West of England. We are real people selling real music to lovers of good honest-to-God roots music from all over the World. We give our customers access to many fantastic hard to find independent releases, some previously only available at the artists live shows.
We specialise in our first love of blues, rockabilly and rocknroll but we're also nuts about all good roots music. We currently stock CDs from over 20 different countries and our catalogue is growing every single day.
We listen to every release we stock (really!), and we understand and support our artists and we love their music too! There's no prominent placement for money on our site, so if we say it's good, it's because we like it, not because we've been paid to like it! Every artist get's a great deal on sales of their music through Rootscd.com, so buying from us actually helps to financially support roots artists and roots music in a positive way. Wherever we can, we pay our artists direct and cut-out any of them money grabbing middlemen!
Rootscd.com is built on:
Excellent customer service!
Fast delivery Worldwide
Great prices (over 90% of our catalogue is available for under £10.00!)
A depth and variety of titles that will make us the number 1 place to visit for quality independent roots music.
Keeping it real and treating our customers and artists with respect.
We hope that you like our easy to use website. You can search for artists easily or browse at your leisure. In most cases you can listen to every track on an album in high quality stereo, read reviews, check out the artists website's and even rate the albums yourself if you like. You can do all of this before you buy, for free, without the need to sign up to anything or fill in pesky registration forms!
We hope you enjoy the experience, come and discover!...
Martin - Rootscd.com
Influences
Good quality, honest to God Roots music made by thousands of unbelievably talented independent blues, jazz, rockabilly, folk and world music artists from all over the World. They are our influence!
Sounds Like
The finest independent blues, jazz, rockabilly, folk & world music artists on the planet!
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Great artists like:
The Radio Ramblers, The Lucky Stars, Peter Nande, Tim Lothar, The Dirty Robbers, The Big 4, Kick ' Em Jenny, King Louie Combo, Hot Rhythm & Booze, Rhythm Bombs, Delgado Brothers, Caroline Casey, Roy Brown, Pat Cupp, Buddy Holly, Slick Andrews, The Big Town Playboys, Ben Carr & The Hot Rats, Radiotones, Dave Arcari, Steve Kozak, Big Boy Bloater & His Southside Stompers, Jack Rabbit Slim, The Electrophonics, Frantic Flintstones, The Drugstore Cowboys, Jo' Buddy, Marc Tee, Igor Prado, 45 rpm, Huelyn Duvall, Star Mountain Dreamers, Gin Palace Jesters, Jason Lee Wilson, Cherry Casino and the Gamblers, The Roy Kay Trio, Bones Maki & The Sundodgers, Flatfoot Shakers, K.t. And Midnight Cannonball, Chrome Daddies, Eddy & The Backfires, Chrome Daddies, Mystery Gang, Pep Torres, Wailin Elroys, Randy Rich & The Poor Boys, Doug Wilshire, Roundup Boys, Desperado 5, Rayburn Anthony, Hank Ray, Ike and the Capers, Pete Hutton, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Lloyd Tripp And The Zipguns, Glenn Honeycutt, Bram Riddlebarger & The Wailin Elroys, Dig Wayne, Blisters N Gray, The Ballroom Rockets, Phil Trigwell & Los Bandaghos, Kieron McDonald, Max Panconi, Little Roger & The Houserockers, Jim Pates, The Bar-M Boys, Pat Cupp, Mad Men, Charlie Gracie, George and the Hustlers,Big Chico, Robson Fernandes, The Buick 55's, John Nemeth, Guitar Ray, Jennifer Leonhardt, Kill Van Helsing, The Five Aces, Big Dave, Donald Rubinstein, Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat, The Wildcards, Vince Lee & The Big Combo, Johnny Law & the Pistol Packin' Daddies, The Nightporters, Micke Björklöf & BlueStrip, Lynette Morgan & The Blackwater Valley Boys, The Bonneville Barons, Two Timers, Folk Uke, Slick Andrews and the Wild Hare Millionaires, JD Smith, Tony Jameson & The Jamesons, Paul Garner, Cordwood Draggers, Mitch Woods, Family Style, Howlin' Bill, Rusty Roots, The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo, The Lazy Jumpers, The Western Aces, Junior Marvel, Rudy La Crioux and the All Stars, Helge Tallqvist & Groovy Eyes, Arson Roulette, The Tennessee Boys, Jerry King & The Rivertown Ramblers, The Hi-Q's, The Hometown Gamblers, Voodoo Boogie, Rusty Roots, The Truly Lover Trio, Johnny Carlevale, Blues Lee, Gerry Hundt, Lil' Bullfrog Brown, Cliff & The Cliffhangers, Rusti Steel, Sidestreet Reny, Wentus Blues Band, Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters and many, many, many more!
The list grows by the day!
We are major stockists for these leading European Rockabilly labels!
A TINY selection of the titles available to buy on Rootscd.com!
Rootscd.com is aimed at selling the music of quality independent blues, rockabilly, jazz, folk and world music artists to worldwide customers.
What we offer our artists is a European based, high quality, on-line outlet for their CD albums. They decide how much they sell their albums for then send them to us, that's it! we do the rest.
We offer our customers high quality samples of every track on an album to help them make their choice, along with customer reviews, press reviews, links to the artists websites and much more.
Our Flash-based music players give artists some of the best security available to protect their music from illegal downloading and file sharing. Unlike many other music retail sites, it's almost impossible to "steal" their music from our site.
We handle the credit card sales and post artists CD's out on the day we receive an order. Our delivery prices are LOW and our service is FAST!
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Selling your CD's on Rootscd.com is totally non-exclusive, you can sell your CD's anywhere else that you like! You still own your music and you can withdraw your CD from sale any time that you wish.
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The latest from the Creek - We've just added four new tracks to myspace completed last week, with Phil Innes at the controls. These are the first recordings to feature Alan Ibbotson on drums, and we are all really happy with the results. It's a shame that we've not been able to get back into the studio before this but we've been able to build up new material in the meantime.
The timing was perfect as we all went down with Swine Flu after the session, with Guy just able to complete the last vocals before admitting defeat!.
"Judgement Day" is a totally retro song with a very 70's (complete with cowbell) Bad Company-Free - AC/DC vibe with a storming solo from Guy at the end.
"I Know" - Very fast with a great hook - very unlike anything we've done before, a sort of punk/blues take on things - great vocal and lyrics. The opening section is from a German radio broadcast being picked up from Guy's heavily overdriven Peavey 5150 valve amp - can anyone translate? :)
"Chains" takes us back to our blues roots, with Guy sounding rather like John Lee Hooker in the opening section, before the song hurtles into a very Led Zeppelin style meltdown, complete with some suitably wailing guitar.
"Salvation" is a slowie with added Hammond! - some nice guitar licks too! - almost prog rock at the opening section (reminds me of Andy Latimer and Camel), before building around a very moody bluesy set of chord changes into some very epic choruses. Phil added the keyboard parts - and we got a bit carried away - sounded almost like "Highway Star" for a while - But Phil very diplomatically as ever got us back on track. We argued for weeks about this song prior to the recording - as to whether or not it m
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