Encore Records

Loreena mckennitt

Troubadours on the rhine

In March 2011 an invited audience of 300 eager music devotees entered the radio studios of SWR1 in Mainz, Germany to participate in a unique concert experience by multi platinum recording artist Loreena McKennitt. Accompanied only by her long standing musical companions, Brian Hughes (guitars) and Caroline Lavelle (cello), over the course of an hour they performed songs from Loreena’s then newly released recording The Wind That Shakes The Barley alongside a selection of favorites drawn from across her catalog of nine studio albums, including fan favorites ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Bonny Portmore’ and ‘The Bonny Swans’.

lyle lovett

Release Me

Release Me was produced by Lyle Lovett and Nathanial Kunkel and featuring songs with K.D Lang, Kat Edmonson and Sara and Sean Watkins. While typically associated with the Country genre, Lovett’s compositions often incorporate Folk, Swing, Blues, Jazz and Gospel music as well as more traditional Country & Western styling.

Amy Ray

Lung of Love

New solo album from the punk-folk songstress and sometime Indigo Girl !!

Lambchop

Mr M

It’s been nearly two decades since LAMBCHOP released its first album, at the time pronouncing itself “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band”.

Provocative it may have been, but the description made sense: at the heart of all that ruckus was a band at once defying and embracing the musical legacy of its hometown.

Since then, Lambchop has evolved into an accomplished ensemble, adding palpable depth and substance to singer-songwriter-guitarist Kurt Wagner’s songs - and the band sounds as commanding as ever on its 11th album, ‘Mr. M’, a collection of meditations on love and loss and the detritus of everyday existence.

The double vinyl edition is limited and includes 4 bonus tracks.

Buck Satan & The 666 Shooters

Bikers Welcome Ladies Drink Free

2012 album from Ministry founder Al Jourgensen under the guise of his Country doppelganger, Buck Satan. Joining Jourgensen are The 666 Shooters, AKA Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Tony Campos (Static-X) and Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis/Ministry).

Also features other guest artists from the Metal and Rock world as well as Country artists, fiddlers, cellists, pedal steel guitars, mandolins, banjos etc. Jourgensen digs deep into the vaults of his extensive knowledge of both kinds of music (Country & Western!) for inspiration to accomplish this provocative and melodically gorgeous array of original tracks and Gram Parsons/The Byrds, The Grateful Dead and Heartsfield covers

Uncut / Mojo / The Wire / Classic Rock / The Word / Classic Rock Prog / Terrorizer

.

February 2012 issues are in stock now !!

Various

This One’s For Him - A Tribute to Guy Clark

2012 two CD collection, released to coincide with Guy Clark’s 70th birthday.

Artists include Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylous Harris and John Prine, Patty Griffin, Ron Sexsmith, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Jerry Jeff Walker and others.

The collection was lovingly produced by Grammy-winning producer Tamara Saviano (Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster) and frequent Clark co-writer Shawn Camp (“Sis Draper,” “Magnolia Wind”). The tribute includes 30 tracks by 33 Americana artists who are friends and colleagues of Clark or who have been influenced by his remarkable compositions.

Leonard Cohen

Old Ideas

2012 album from master singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen.

Here are 10 new songs that mine the heart, shake the body and break the boundaries as everybody knows only Leonard can do.

A signature of our time, Leonard’s baritone holds us like the voices of Hank, Frank and Ray. These are songs that nobody knows and everyone will treasure.

Complementing Cohen’s signature baritone on Old Ideas are the exceptional vocalists Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie and Charley Webb) and Jennifer Warnes. The album’s cover design and drawings are Cohen’s own.

VArious artists

Chimes of freedom: songs of bob dylan

A 4-CD collection containing music from Patty Smith, Rise Against, Pete Townshend, Diana Krall, My Morning Jacket, Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Jackson Browne, Sugarland, Joan Baez, Flogging Molly, Joe Perry, Bad Religion and many others. Two iconic forces that have impacted the past 50 years—the life-saving human rights activism of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Amnesty International and the incomparable artistry of Bob Dylan—are being saluted by musicians who contributed new or previously unreleased recordings to Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.

Kathleen Edwards

Voyageur

Produced by Justin Vernon (AKA Bon Iver) and Edwards, Voyageur is less of a departure than it is a journey, and like any transforming trip, it demands that we let go of any preconceptions about the destination.

Voyageur evokes a spectrum of overwhelming feelings within the atmosphere of a lucid dream. Edwards’ characters speak to the grief, loneliness, shock, and confusion that come with endings as well as the hope and irrepressible joy that accompany new beginnings, but the stories are told with a seductively quiet strength.

Aided by the musical support of fellow travelers Justin Vernon and Norah Jones, Voyageur features standout tracks such as “Change the Sheets,” “Mint,” and “A Soft Place to Land.”