The String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Umphrey's McGee, The Disco Biscuits, Railroad Earth, Lotus, The Greyboy Allstars, Tea Leaf Green, The Radiators, Steve Kimock Band, Bloodkin, Brothers Past, American Babies, Kyle Hollingsworth, Zilla, Emmitt-Nershi Band, DJ Harry, New Monsoon, and Ben Arnold.
______________________________ Emmitt-Nershi Band - "New Country Blues"
Kyle Hollingsworth - "Way That It Goes"
Umphrey's McGee - "Made To Measure" (Live)
The Greyboy Allstars - "Still Waiting"
Railroad Earth - "Been Down This Road"
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On April 3, 2007, Umphrey's McGee releases a brand new double disc studio album – a spontaneous and intriguing follow up to their highly touted spring 2006 studio release Safety In Numbers.
Titled The Bottom Half , disc one features ten tracks that were originally recorded during the SIN Sessions, while disc two offers outtakes, alternative versions of songs, a cappella recordings, and other bits from the band's 2006 studio sessions. As with Safety In Numbers , famed album artist Storm Thorgerson designed the artwork for The Bottom Half.
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On February 6th, 2007, SCI Fidelity Records will release dream, the ninth studio album from singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams.
A word from Keller:
welcome to my dream come true. the concept of this recording was to collaborate with my heroes and make a record that i would be proud to crank in my pimped out golf cart when i'm 80.
The resulting album features 16 tracks, with the usually one-man-band backed by a dream team of musicians including Béla Fleck, Bobby Read, Bob Weir, Charlie Hunter, Derrek Phillips, Fareed Haque, Fleming McWilliams, Jeff Sipe, John Molo, John Scofield, Martin Sexton, Michael Franti, Modereko, Samir Chatterjee, Sanjay Mishra, Steve Kimock, The String Cheese Incident, and Victor Wooten.
Check out dream eCard containing 2 full streaming tracks from dream, the incredible music video for "Play This", the dream podcast, track listing and additional information! You can also purchase the CD online.
Umphrey's McGee is proud to announce the release of their third studio album, Safety In Numbers - in stores NOW nationwide on SCI Fidelity Records!
Produced by UM and their long-time engineer Kevin Browning, and recorded in the band's hometown of Chicago, IL, Safety In Numbers features 11 amazing tracks, including many never-before-heard songs.
With special guest musicians Huey Lewis and Joshua Redman, and cover art from renowned album designer Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc), Safety In Numbers represents the next step in the growth of Umphrey's McGee.
Visit www.umphreys.com/safety to view the SIN eCard, where you'll find streaming audio, video, news and album info.
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The Wind at Four to Fly, the brand new double-live album from the Disco Biscuits will be released nationwide on April 18th. Recorded during the final performances with the bands original lineup, the album delivers two full discs of unadulterated Bisco madness! Disc one includes a number of definitive versions of fan favorites such as Caterpillar, Voices Insane, Sweating Bullets and Morph Dusseldorph, with the second disc containing an all-out trance fusion explosion. Artwork for the album was created by LEBO. In support of the release, and with their new line-up clicking on all cylinders, the Biscuits are back on the road electrifying audiences from coast-to-coast.
The Wind at Four to Fly eCard features 2 full streaming tracks from the album ("Caterpillar" and "Voices Insane " over 24 minutes of music!) PLUS Brownies Blog, a rare inside look into the mind of Marc Brownstein, the impetus behind the album.
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“Making Rock and Roll is an art form best performed with an understanding of its tradition.”
Such are the words of Tea Leaf Green's guitarist Josh Clark, as he discusses their musical approach during the creation of their SCI Fidelity Records debut, a live DVD and companion CD, entitled Rock 'N' Roll Band, available in stores October 31st, 2006.
SCI Fidelity is excited to welcome this band of youthful San Francisco gypsies who put their own original spin on rock & soul.
Check out the Rock ‘n' Roll Band eCard containing 2 full streaming video tracks from the DVD and 3 full streaming audio tracks from the CD, along with track listings and additional news & information.
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During the band’s 28 years, The Radiators have come tantalizingly close to making the “Great New Orleans Rock Recording.” Now, with the release of their new record, Dreaming Out Loud ( October 3, 2006) they’ve done it. Dreaming Out Loud is the definitive studio recording by one of New Orleans’ best Rock bands.
Almost three decades after their formation, The Radiators have emerged from the studio with an accurate self-portrait of where the band is today; heartbroken by the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to their beloved New Orleans, but not hopeless. Determined to record the album in their hometown, The Radiators teamed up with producer Mark Bingham at Piety St. Recording N.O.L.A. during the city’s historical 2006 Mardi Gras celebration, when the New Orleans community gathered together to remind the world that the city and its traditions would in fact survive. There and then the band laid the tracks for Dreaming Out Loud – a New Orleans-flavored “war cry” that only The Radiators could assemble.
The album’s title track sets straight those who ever doubted the city’s legacy would continue; Malone sings - “Our music is all we’ve ever had.”
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SCI Fidelity Records is a label based in both Boulder, CO and New York, NY that features a mind-blowing roster of artists who thrive on immense musicianship, incessant touring, and a lifelong dedication to the live music experience.
Artists on SCI Fidelity Records include The String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Umphrey's McGee, Railroad Earth, Tea Leaf Green, The Disco Biscuits, The Greyboy Allstars, Brothers Past, Steve Kimock Band, Kyle Hollingsworth, DJ Harry, New Monsoon, and Ben Arnold.
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Emmitt-Nershi Band New Country Blues
In Stores and Online September 29, 2009
The idea for the Emmitt-Nershi Band has been in the works for a long time. As founders of popular touring bands, both Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and Bill Nershi (The String Cheese Incident) have traveled the world and played in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Over the years, as they would cross musical paths at various shows & festivals, a strong friendship was forged. But it wasn’t until recently that they could find the time to pick, have fun, and create bluegrass music together!
With New Country Blues (September 29th, SCI Fidelity Records), the Emmitt-Nershi Band has fully realized its potential. With Emmitt on mandolin & vocals, Nershi on acoustic guitar and vocals, Andy Thorn on banjo (Larry Keel, Drew Emmitt Band), and Tyler Grant on bass (Drew Emmitt Band), ENB delivers a dynamic blend of bluegrass, newgrass, country and Americana that is sure to excite fans of all those genres and more! Special guests on the album - recorded in Nershi’s home studio in Nederland, CO - include Jason Carter (Del McCoury Band) and Keith Moseley (String Cheese Incident).
Kyle Hollingsworth Then There's Now
Available Online at at Retail Nationwide September 15, 2009
For more than a decade, as keyboardist for Colorado’s beloved String Cheese Incident, Kyle Hollingsworth has consistently proven one of the most innovative and virtuosic musicians on the American jamband scene. Now, with the Sept. 15th release of Then There’s Now (SCI Fidelity Records), his first album since the band announced a hiatus in 2007, Hollingsworth extends his reach into areas that will both delight longtime admirers and lock in countless new ones. Emphasizing his considerable songwriting skills and incorporating a plethora of surprises, Then There’s Now marks the true emergence of Kyle Hollingsworth as a solo artist.
Bloodkin Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again
Available Online and at Select Retail February 17, 2009
Bloodkin’s new album, Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again, was produced by David Barbe (Bettye LaVette, Drive-By Truckers, Sugar). This collection of songs is a stripped down rock & roll record that harkens back to the days where songs were recorded in a single take and relied on the raw energy of 5 guys playing together in a room. Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again will be released digitally and to select retailers on February 17, 2009 on SCI Fidelity Records. A wider release is expected in late spring.
An excerpt from Patterson Hood’s (Drive-By Truckers) liner notes:
“Bloodkin has been through the fire and persevered and come out the other side better and stronger than I ever thought they’d be. They have landed on the best line up of players they’ve ever had and seem to have gained a control of their demons that two years ago would have seemed beyond impossible. Instead of packing it in and going home (or dying) they pulled themselves up and made their greatest album in a quarter of a century.
Life affirming Rock and Roll in the grandest tradition. This is music to LIVE with and it don’t get any better than that.”
Umphrey’s McGee Mantis
New Studio Album
In Stores January 20, 2009
Chicago’s Umphrey's McGee enters its second decade together with their most progressive, melodic and artistically cohesive album to date. The new album hits streets on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, when Mantis casts another Windy City family into the limelight. Over 2 years in the making, Mantis pushes the envelope in composition, arrangement and group interplay. In an Umphrey’s McGee first, the album offers 100% new material - a drastic change of pace for a band whose typical modus operandi is to work out the material live on-stage before recording studio versions.
Lotus Hammerstrike
Available Online - October 14, 2008
In Stores Nationwide – October 21, 2008!
The latest studio album from Lotus – Hammerstrike – finds the band reaching back in order to move forward. Primarily recorded live in one room to analog tape by Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man), the band captures a sound that harkens back to the 70's but never slips into nostalgic retreads.
The compositions are focused and melodic, filled out with orchestration including swelling violins and cellos, banjo, wordless choirs, and electronic noises. Though the tracks range from dance floor ready rockers to soaring post-rock instrumentals the album is held together by a sanguine spirit that pervades each track. The big guitars, feedback, and distortion serve an optimistic purpose. It is a decidedly American feel that invokes big skies, open roads, and a zealous yet naïve pursuit of the idea that defeat will never be conceded.
Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll & Sipe Live
Double Live Album with Live Concert DVD
In Stores September 16, 2008
Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house—all by himself. So why now, after fifteen-years as a solo artist, is he releasing a live album — simply titled, Live — with three other names on the cover? It turns out that since he first picked up a guitar, this troubadour has wanted to front a band. On Live (September 16, 2008 / SCI Fidelity Records), Keller taps into the world-class talent of Keith Moseley (bass – The String Cheese Incident), Gibb Droll (guitar – Marc Broussard, Brandi Carlile), and Jeff Sipe (drums – Aquarium Rescue Unit, Leftover Salmon). The musical horsepower of four friends playing together on stage proves stronger than even Keller had dreamed. Recorded at select live shows during a winter 2007-2008 tour, and featuring seventeen tracks that span Keller’s career, Live is a testament to how a band, with the right chemistry and chops, can take a song to places even the writer couldn’t have imagined.
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Railroad Earth Amen Corner
In Stores Nationwide – June 10, 2008!
Railroad Earth’s new studio release, Amen Corner, was written and recorded at Lone Croft: an empty, 300 year-old house in New Jersey’s rural countryside. What happened inside the building was the experience of a lifetime for the band’s members, resulting in an early creative pinnacle of a gifted young band, and an album that is an instant Americana classic. Amen Corner is a collection of crisp and crafted roots, bluegrass, and acoustic sides that resonates in all the right places. The tunes breathe both on and between the notes. They hit you immediately, but then linger like a good buzz.
Stay tuned for the Amen Corner website, featuring audio, video, news about the new release and more!
www.railroadearth.com
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American Babies
Self-titled Debut Studio Album
In Stores Nationwide – April 1, 2008!
Though still in its infancy, American Babies has already begun to prove itself. After scoring marquee spots in 2007 at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, Philadelphia’s World Café Live and influential gatherings like Manchester, TN’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Chicago’s Wicker Park Fest, the band stepped into the studio with veteran producer Jon Altschiller (Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer). The result: their emotionally-charged self-tiled debut, American Babies.
The album’s 11 original compositions vividly display the raw talent of singer/songwriter Tom Hamilton. While still only in his twenties, Hamilton’s lyrics channel the worldly knowledge of songwriting chameleons like Neil Young and Ryan Adams, with a hint of Gram Parsons thrown in for good measure. The collection is held together by elegant swings and swaggers of Joe Russo, an award-winning drummer with his feet firmly planted in both the jazz and rock worlds.
Umphrey's McGee Live At The Murat
In Stores October 16, 2007
The ascension continues for Chicago's Umphrey's McGee, not only in terms of their commercial success but in creative accomplishment and instrumental achievement as well. Their performance on Live at the Murat (SCI Fidelity), the band's first official live release, is as impressive as anything they've recorded to date, with the power and finesse, the yin and the yang, that have come to characterize their by-now classic material.
Recorded in Indianapolis in April 2007 and produced by longtime sound caresser/honorary seventh member Kevin Browning, Live at the Murat is innovative without being indulgent and exhilarating without losing control. Clearly, logging 120 gigs a year, "live" is where UM lives.
The Greyboy Allstars first formed almost 15 years ago to realize the vision of rare groove luminary DJ Greyboy: an original sound reminiscent of ..70s soundtrack music. What Happened to Television? (April 17, 2007/SCI Fidelity), the group’s first studio album in nearly a decade, finds them reunited with Greyboy for the first time since their seminal 1995 breakthrough, West Coast Boogaloo.
What Happened to Television? features all of The Greyboy Allstars’ original members: Hammond organist and keyboardist Robert Walter, guitarist/composer/producer Elgin Park (aka Michael Andrews), horn player Karl Denson, bassist Chris Stillwell and drummer Zak Najor. The album also includes contributions from Inara George and the vocal trio The Living Sisters (Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark and George).
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