Saddle Creek Records

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Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska and named after Saddle Creek Road, a major street in midtown Omaha. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded in 1993 by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst. Mogis soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel. It was initially called Lumberjack Records; 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).<ref name="Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek">Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek. Dir. Jason Kulbel and Rob Walters. DVD. Plexifilm, 2005.</ref> Distribution is handled by Redeye Distribution.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> SCR continues to be the flagship label of a style of music called "The Omaha Sound", characterized by a slight country twang. A "sister label" of sorts to Saddle Creek is Team Love, which was begun by Justin Oberst's brother Conor Oberst in 2004.

History

The company was incorporated in 1993 as Lumberjack Records. It was started as part of a college class in entrepreneurship by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst. Mogis was soon succeeded by Robb Nansel. The label's first release was "Water", a solo recording on cassette by Oberst's younger brother Conor Oberst, who was 13 years old at the time.<ref name=HIP>Template:Cite web</ref> When national distribution began in 1996, to avoid confusion with another distributor the name was changed to Saddle Creek Records, for Saddle Creek Road in Omaha.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Artists who recorded for the label including Conor Oberst and Tim Kasher were at the time members of a local music scene centered on Saddle Creek Road whose members were known as "Creekers",<ref name=HIP/> and the label name was partly inspired by the A-side single of Polecat's 1994 -ismist Recordings release 2500 Ft of Our Love, "Saddle Creek".<ref name="ChiTrib2005">Template:Cite news</ref>

Initially a local label, Saddle Creek opened its arms to non-Omaha bands in 2001 with releases by Now It's Overhead and Sorry About Dresden. Other artists not from Nebraska followed including Los Angeles' Rilo Kiley, Eric Bachmann (formerly the leader of Archers of Loaf from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Crooked Fingers from North Carolina), Georgie James (Washington D.C.), Two Gallants (San Francisco), and most recently Tokyo Police Club (Toronto).<ref name="How Jenny Lewis Was a Twee Teen’s Dream">Template:Cite web</ref>

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. On June 8, 2007, the label opened their own music venue in downtown Omaha, named Slowdown after the group Slowdown Virginia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Slowdown</ref>

Bands

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Discography

All releases marked either LBJ (Lumberjack) or SCE (Saddle Creek Europe)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year No. Artist Title Format
1993 LBJ-01<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Conor Oberst Water CS
1993 LBJ-02<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Polecat Dilly Dally CS
1994 LBJ-03<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Slowdown Virginia Dead Space CD
1995 LBJ-04<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Smashmouth Some of You Will Be Hermits CS
1995 LBJ-05<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Polecat/Sunbrain Happy Valentine's Day/Makeout Party Split 7-inch
1995 LBJ-06<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Commander Venus Do You Feel at Home? CD
1995 LBJ-07<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> We'd Rather Be Flying The Solution for Your Thinning Hair CD
1995 LBJ-08<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Norman Bailer Sine Sierra CS
1996 LBJ-09<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Various Music Me All Over 7-inch
1996 LBJ-10<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Cursive The Disruption CDr, 7-inch
1996 LBJ-11<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lullaby for the Working Class Consolation 7-inch
1996 LBJ-12<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lullaby for the Working Class Blanket Warm LP
1996 LBJ-13<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Drip/Commander Venus Last Go/Bow to the Prom King Split 7-inch
1997 LBJ-14<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Wrens/Park Ave. Split Single Split 7-inch
1997 LBJ-15 Lullaby for the Working Class ...In Honor of My Stumbling 7-inch
1997 LBJ-16 comm.venus* The Uneventful Vacation LP
1997 LBJ-17 Lullaby for the Working Class I Never Even Asked for Light LP
1997 LBJ-18 Cursive The Icebreaker 7-inch EP
1998 LBJ-19 Bright Eyes A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997 LP
1997 LBJ-20 Various A Sampler CD CD
1998 LBJ-21 The Faint Media CD
1998 LBJ-22 Cursive The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song CD
1998 LBJ-23 Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness CD/LP
1999 LBJ-24 Lullaby for the Working Class The Ebb & Flow, the Come Go, the To & Fro 7-inch
1999 LBJ-25 The Faint/Ex-Action Figures split Split 7-inch
1999 LBJ-26 Gabardine Gabardine CD
1999 LBJ-27 Lullaby for the Working Class Song LP
1999 LBJ-28 The Faint Blank-Wave Arcade LP
1999 LBJ-29 Spoon The Agony of Laffitte CD Single
1999 LBJ-30 Bright Eyes Every Day and Every Night EP CD/12"
2000 LBJ-31 Cursive Domestica CD/LP
2000 LBJ-32 Bright Eyes Fevers and Mirrors CD/LP
2000 LBJ-33 The Faint Blank-Wave Arcade Remixes 12-inch

Compilations

  • Saddle Creek Records, A Sampler (1998)
  • Saddle Creek 50 (2002)
  • Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina (2005)

See also

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