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Saddle Creek Records
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Founded1993
FounderRobb Nansel
Justin Oberst
Conor Oberst
Mike Mogis
Distributor(s)Sony (US)
GenreIndie rock
Country of originUS
LocationOmaha, Nebraska
Official websitehttp://www.saddle-creek.com/

Saddle Creek Records is an independent record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. The label was founded by Robb Nansel and Mike Mogis in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). The label is named after Saddle Creek Road, a street that cuts through the east side of midtown Omaha, and the beginnings of a scene whose members included Conor Oberst (then a solo artist), Tim Kasher (then of Slowdown Virginia), and others. Collectively, they were known unofficially as the 'Creekers'. 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.) [1] Saddle Creek became an incorporated entity as a class project for the two on entrepreneurship. Justin Oberst, brother of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, stepped in to fill the shoes of Mogis around 1998, with Mogis moving more into recording and production. Distribution is handled by the Alternative Distribution Alliance.

Saddle Creek Records continues to be the flagship label of a style of music that is beginning to be called the Omaha Sound, characterized by a slight country twang. This is increasingly inaccurate, though, with the rise of more electronic sounds such as those favored by The Faint and Broken Spindles. The eclectic sounds of Saddle Creek's disparate member bands is somewhat explained by their history; a number of the original members of the label attended grade school together (Oberst himself was 13 years old at the time of the first Lumberjack release, Conor Oberst's "Water"). A "brother label," of sorts, to Saddle Creek is Team Love, started by Conor Oberst in 2004.

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.

Bands

Past Bands

Discography

Compilations

See also

References

  1. ^ Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek. Dir. Jason Kulbel and Rob Walters. DVD. Plexifilm, 2005.

Interviews

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