Buy albums from the black keys, iggy and the stooges, r. Discover whats missing in your discography and shop for fat possum records, llc releases. From a bankrupt record label, they have bought a vault of southern rural 1960s blues, so fat possum. Nov 16, 2003 fat possum has signed grandpa boy, a new band formed by paul westerberg from the replacements. The album was revealed with no prior announcement on april 22, 2020, with the approval of fat possum records. Explore releases from the fat possum records, llc label. In practice, this meant that capricorn would rerelease previously issued fat possum titles with new covers, and put out future fat possum releases. Fat possum records and amazon music are partnering to release worried blues, 10 albums of rare, long outofprint recordings from such historic. A second volume followed, and for the 1995 cd edition of greatest hits, five of the songs from the second volume were tacked on, improving its length and value and essentially making this issue irrelevant, although the.
Sit down with fat possum cofounder matthew johnson for any. There arent many hotter labels on the planet right now than fat possum. Jul 14, 2017 but those recordings have long been out of print and difficult to find. We started putting out rl burnside and junior kimbrough records in 1992. We are an independent record label from oxford, ms.
This month, fat possum records and tyrant books will release a limited package featuring scotts twoman folk band, holler boys, along with a. Al greens greatest hits fat possum by al green available. At first fat possum focused almost entirely on recording previously unknown mississippi blues artists typically from oxford or holly springs, mississippi. Fat possum records official store fat possum official store. Fat possum all categories lps, cds, vinyl record albums. A hypothetical book design for the independent record label, fat. May 9, 20 a hypothetical book design for the independent record label, fat possum records. But on their two albums for fp, plus the chulahoma ep, dan auerbach and patrick carney pay their debt to hill country blues.
Fat possum label keeping blues alive music the guardian. It includes recordings captured juniors juke joint in chulahoma, ms, home recordings and more raw and right in juniors unflinching element. In the state of mississippi, marriage licenses cannot be issued unless the male applicant is at least seventeen 17 years of age, and the female applicant is at least fifteen 15 years of age. Recently, fat possum has signed younger rock acts to its roster. The black keys, youth lagoon, townes van zandt, the walkmen, rl burnside, iggy and the stooges, temples. This set is a straight reissue, cover art and all, of 1975s al greens greatest hits lp, which collected his ten biggest singles. Jun 15, 2017 fat possum records and amazon music are partnering to release worried blues, 10 albums of rare, long outofprint recordings from such historic delta blues artists as mississippi john hurt, skip. It later became an effort to find the last original bluesmen and record them before they died. Fat possum records is an american independent record label based in water valley and oxford, mississippi. Tyrant books is an independent publishing house based in rome, italy and new york, new york. In return, fat possum received a royalty for each cd sold and help with recording and overhead costs.
Discover whats missing in your discography and shop for fat possum records releases. See who you know at fat possum records, leverage your professional network, and get hired. For johnson and fat possum, the deal was a sweet one. Dark blue cloth spine with title in red letters, hard cover b00k. Just dont let that fool you into thinking that the mississippi companys done things the easy way.
To make this release even more special, 100 of the books were personally autographed by iggy pop. If you wish to have a partial order shipped, you will need to make two separate orders. Fat possum records is was a label started in 1991 by matthew johnson 4 for the express. Cut to last year, when oxford, mississippis fat possum records acquired the original tapes from rosenthal, restoring them and then digitizing them for the soontobereleased worried blues, a collection of ten albums, with each devoted to a different artist. Jan 15, 2016 their postfat possum releases for nonesuch place them in a rockier setting. Our album of the day is the districts a flourish and a spoil. The fat white family, temples and seratones on the us labels books in 2015. A strong collection of mostly earlytomid 90s recordings by mississippi blues legend junior kimbrough compiling his fat possum recordings and as a set that really is essential.
Fat possum records is was a label started in 1991 by matthew johnson 4 for the express purpose recording of r. Stream tracks and playlists from fat possum records on your desktop or mobile device. Clear all filters most relevant newest released oldest released newest listed alphabetical a z alphabetical z a new results loaded. Burnside, townes van zandt, sunflower bean, youth lagoon, spiritualized. Explore releases from the fat possum records label. Bass drum of death get found fat possum records 87.
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