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Catalog Hear album previews for all titles & order online: WWW.YELLOWDOGRECORDS.COM Price Qty THE CLAUDETT YDR 2465 ES - DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM! $12.49 Upright piano, lowdown "Bass VI" guitar, booming drums and Cool School vocals get into a blues-punk brawl at the studio of Black Keys producer Mark Neill. On their head-spinning new album, the Claudettes summon early blues, '60s pop-soul and Cramps-style psychobilly with a set of songs searching for the humanity hidden behind the vitriol, isolation and communication breakdown of the Internet Age. “With elements of blues, soul, punk, and flat out noise, the quartet have something truly unique that you have to hear to understand.” — Girl Underground Music YDR 2242 THE RAGPICKER S TRING BAND $12.49 Mandolinist Rich DelGrosso, Guitarist Mary Flower and multi-instrumentalist Martin Gross- wendt have earned steady streams of praise for their outstanding string skills. They strum and pick up a storm together as the Ragpicker String Band – but it’s their tight trio harmonies that especially dazzle. Nominated for Blues Music Award for “Acoustic Album of the Year”. “Lightning in a bottle... showcasing splendiferously the power and beauty of traditional, acoustic blues.” — Living Blues YDRYDDR 2116 EDEN BRENT – JIGSAW HEART RecordedRec in Nashville with producer Colin Linden, Jigsaw Heart is Americana soul shot $12.49 throughthro with Mississippi roots — from Eden’s evocative lyrics to her Lil’ Boogaloo piano style.styl Blues, gospel, soul, country and R&B merge in a melting pot of sound that bubbles up in tthe Delta and streams outward from there. These heartfelt new songs make for Eden’s deepest,dee most reflective album yet. “Crafting“Cr her own genre that mixes blues, roots and her own vision, this is an unflinchinglyunf gorgeous album that never strikes a false note...” — Midwest Record ASYLUM STREE YDRYDR 1414 T SPANKERS – THE LAST LAUGH $12.49 America'sAm favorite old-time hellraisers take their fans on one last journey. As echoes of Tin PanPan Alley and vaudeville abound, the country, blues, jazz and swing songs they’ve borrowed andand created go flying by, all passing through the punk-rock ethos at their core. These triumphanttriu final performances cement the troupe’s legacy as an acoustic powerhouse. “One“On of the most ribald and irreverent roots music acts of all time... they've got heartshea of gold, even if they have blood of chemicals and minds of mirth.” —The Independent Weekly THE SOUL OF J YDRYDR 1976 OHN BLACK – A SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND $12.49 SultrySult soul and blues jams that keep "the essence of summer" going year-round, inspired by JJB's home town of Los Angeles during the wintertime. "Although the sun shines all the time here, the mood brightens even more once the summer months arrive," he explains.exp "I wanted to write songs that would keep that attitude going year-round." “Cuts“Cu tailor-made for these popsicle-melting months...” — BeScene YDRYD 2026 CASSIE TAYLOR - R OUT OF MY MIND $12.49 DeepDee blues tradition, filtered through a youthful perspective and a cutting-edge sonic landscape.land At age 26, Cassie Taylor is already a veteran musician. She's spent a decade playing bbassass and singing on stage and in the studio with her father, modern-day blues innovator Otis TTaylor.ayl Now she stakes her own claim as an artist of intelligence, power and soul, drawing on a wwidei swath of influences to create her own indelible and utterly modern sound. ““Mesmerizing,M nuanced, and imaginatively arranged... and when she hits the gas, man,man you feel it.” — Premier Guitar “A first-rate fingerpicker who also plays fine bottleneck...Flower straddles the line between blues and jazz, recalling the spirits of Mem- phis Minnie, Blind Blake, and Louis Armstrong.” — Blues Revue Price Qty MARY FL YDRYDR 1842 OWER – MISERY LOVES COMPANY $12.49 MaryMar Flower's most intimate album yet finds her paired with roots masters including Curtis Salgado,Salg Colin Linden, and Dave Frishberg for a series of duets. Along with Mary’s dazzlingdaz guitar and unmatched lap steel, the record features empathetic performances from somesom of blues and roots music’s most accomplished practitioners. “There's“Th a consummate melodiousness to Flower's work... everything the woman doesdoe turns to beauty.” — Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange YDRYDR 1642 MARY FLOWER - BRIDGES DeftlyDefDef melds ragtime, country blues, swing, folk styles, and hot jazz through the mastery of $12.49 MaryMar Flower’s fingerpicked and lap-style guitar playing. The Bridges of the title allude to the manyman different musical genres that give Mary’s distinctive sound its own unique character. NominatedNom for Independent Music Award for “Acoustic Song of the Year” (“Slow Road to Glory”).Glo “Flower“F plays with passion and precision and creates power and beauty in just about anythingany those chords touch...” — Rambles MARY FLOWE YDRYDR 1362 R - INSTRUMENTAL BREAKDOWN $12.49 BluesyBlu instrumental compilation featuring intricate performances with backing from a who’s whowho of roots notables. In response to frequent requests for recordings featuring her guitar playing,play Instrumental Breakdown compiles the instrumental tracks from Mary’s critically accacclaimedl albums Honey From the Comb, Ladyfingers, Ragtime Gal, and Bywater Dance, along with newly-recordednew tunes. “A“A stunning collection… Providence must have kissed each individual finger on the handshan of Mary Flower.” — Cascade Blues Association BluesNotes YDRYDR 1242 MARY FLOWER - BYWA TER DANCE $12.49 MaryMa traveled to the Big Easy to meld her impeccable fingerpicking and lap-slide folk blues withwit New Orleans jazz styles performed by some of the city’s finest. Special guests include HenryHe Butler, Jon Cleary, and Dr. Michael White. “Unfailingly“U sweet, hot and sassy – every track on this album has something about it thattha will give you shivers. This is one of the most satisfying albums of the year.” —All Music Guide And... Music FRom: “Obvious shades of Dylan, Dock Boggs, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, etc etc - and yet there’s so little in the overall sound of Mark Lemhouse that you can say is derivative.” —Blues & Rhythm MARK LEMHO YDRYDR 1238 USE - THE GREAT AMERICAN YARD SALE $12.49 TheThe only certainty with Lemhouse is to expect the unexpected... The genre-defying guitarist plugsplug in and heads out to edgy Americana territory, armed with banjo and electric lap steel as well as hhis deftly fingerpicked National guitar. “A“A mmodern day masterpiece... a dark delight that chugs along, redefining the blues on his terms. Don’tDon try to figure out The Great American Yard Sale – a little bit of everything, stylistically. Just enjoyenjoj y it.” — Exclaim! MARK LEMHOU YDRYDR 1038 SE - BIG LONESOME RADIO $12.49 A trtributei to Lemhouse’s time in Memphis studying with North Mississippi bluesman Robert Belfour...Belfo This debut album took the blues world by storm, racking up two Handy Award nominationsnom for “Best New Artist Debut” and “Best Acoustic Album”. “Just“J“ us because it’s acoustic doesn’t mean it doesn’t rock.” — Montrose Daily Press YDR 2116 EDEN BRENT - JIG SAW HEART $12.49 see page 1 for more information on Eden Brent’s new release, Jigsaw Heart. EDEN BRENT YDR 1716 – AIN’T GOT NO TROUBLES $12.49 Eclectic pianist Eden Brent traveled downriver from her home in Greenville, MS to New Orleans in a quest to broaden her sound. Working with legendary bassist George Porter, Jr., she and producer Colin Linden injected her gritty, rootsy music with spicy elements that earmark the unmistakable Crescent City sound. The triumphant result was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and nominated as “Album of the Year” by the Blues Music Awards. “Like Norah Jones’ best songs, Brent’s original compositions sound like they’ve always existed without sounding like every song you’ve ever heard.” — Blogcritics YDR 1616 EDEN BRENT - M ISSISSIPPI NUMBER ONE $12.49 Critics couldn’t get enough of Eden’s distinctive mix of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop, which one writer described as “Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin.” Eden was nominated in four separate Blues Music Award catego- ries, winning both “Acoustic Blues Album of the Year” and “Acoustic Blues See the back Artist of the Year”. of the catalog “In a world where flash nearly always dazzles more than substance, for Eden’s Mississippi Number One is a spectacularly moving musical statement, T-shirts! with strength, depth and beauty to spare.” — Rambles also music from: FIONA B YDR 1653 OYES - BLUES WOMAN $12.49 Fiona Boyes picks back up her electric guitar for a new studio album full of tasty licks and brassy attitude. Fifteen songs run a rollicking trip through the contemporary blues landscape — from Chicago to Texas to Mississippi’s hill country and the Delta, all evocatively conjured by Boyes’ distinctive songwriting. Congratulations to Fiona for her 2010 Blues Music Award nomination for “Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year”! “Among the leading blues artists today... strong and exhilarating — sultry, rebellious, anguished, joyous.” — Downbeat YDR 1353 FIONA BOYES - LUCKY 13 $12.49 Sassy and soulful electric and acoustic blues from the first Australian - and first woman - to win the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge. With special guests Marcia Ball and “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin, the album was nominated for Blues Music Award “Contemporary Blues Album of the Year”. “One of the most sizzling blues albums — by anyone — in years.” — Relix “Sounds like Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin, and that’s really a good thing...” — Midwest Record Recap Music FRom: “There’s no one else playing exactly the same sort of music as William Lee Ellis.