Encore Records

John Prine

Singing Mailman Delivers

2011 two CD archive collection containing the singer/songwriter’s earliest recordings, taped one year before his debut album, along with a live set and one unreleased song.

Disc One is a August 1970 recording that finds John recording songs that would make up his first album at the WFMT studios in Chicago. These songs were recorded immediately after John’s interview with the legendary Studs Terkel.

Disc Two is a live set from November 1970—featuring versions of many of the same songs—recorded during John’s residency at Chicago’s Fifth Peg.

Dirty Projectors and Bjork

Mount Wittenberg Orca

Mount Wittenberg Orca was inspired by events on Mt. Wittenberg in Nor Cal. It pushes Longstreth’s obsession with vocal harmony that figured huge on Bitte Orca. This seven-song, twenty-one minute collection is the first music the band recorded after Bitte Orca, and it feels more like a small album than an EP. It is also their most staggering collaboration yet — with the Icelandic artist Björk.

Cowboy Junkies

Sing In My Meadow

Sing In My Meadow is a collection of songs recorded over a four day period that the band’s Michael Timmins describes as ‘an album that references an aspect of our live performances that we don’t dig into very much in our studio recordings. We wanted the album to revolve around those psychedelic, blues-inspired forays we are so fond of exploring on stage.

Arkells

Michigan Left

Having spent the last few years writing new material while on the road, this past spring Arkells retreated to Bath, Ontario to record Michigan Left, living and recording in a converted house on the shores of Lake Ontario.  10 Brand new tracks !

Johnny Cash

Bootleg Series - Volume 3

2011 two CD collection of rare and unreleased live recordings from the Country icon.

Live Around The World is a travelogue from his earliest days on the road at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas Texas in the 1950’s - through to his becoming an International Superstar and a great statesman ambassador at the White House in Washington, D.C. in the 1970’s.

Joe Henry

Reverie

Reverie came to fruition when Joe Henry and his fellow musicians convened in Henry s basement studio for three days of exploration. The result is an all acoustic album more full of life from the birds chirping through the open windows to the ticking and shifting of the musicians than any Henry has recorded.

The Waterboys

An Appointment With Mr Yeats

An Appointment With Mr Yeats sees Mike Scott taking the poetry of Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats and setting it to music.

Produced by Scott himself with the help of Waterboys bassist Marc Arciero, the album is the culmination of a project that Scott had first initiated with a reworking of Yeats The Stolen Child on the 1988 album Fisherman s Blues.

Ryan Adams

Ashes and Fire

The album was recorded at Sunset Sound Factory in Hollywood and produced by Glyn Johns, renowned for his work with the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, The Who and The Rolling Stones—and whose son Ethan produced previous Ryan Adams albums Heartbreaker, Gold and 29.

From the slow burning stunner of opener “Dirty Rain” through the infectious shuffle of the title track and irresistible harmonies of “Lucky Now,” to the closing lament of “I Love You But I Don’t Know What To Say,” Ashes & Fire is arguably the most cohesive and beautiful album of Adams’ distinguished career.

Wilco

The Whole Love

After seven studio albums, various collaborations and countless days on the road over the past 15 years, Wilco tried something new before starting work on The Whole Love: they took a vacation.

Staying off stage for most of the latter half of 2010 was the longest break from touring that bandleader Jeff Tweedy has had in a career stretching back more than 20 years.

Although he wasn’t out on the road much, Tweedy was working, writing so many songs that the musicians initially thought they had enough material for two new records when Wilco reconvened last fall in the Loft, the group’s Chicago recording studio.

The result is 12 stunning songs that showcase Wilco in a new light, on bold rockers, somber acoustic ballads and punchy pop songs, bookended by the propulsive 7-minute opener and a meditative 12-minute closing track

Elliott Brood

Days Into Years

New studio album !!