New record pressing – Little Freddie King – Things I Used To Do:
The legendary Little Freddie King returns to Newvelle Records with a stripped down – and decidedly different – sound. The blues titan appears here just a few years following his acclaimed release Going Upstairs but now in raw, unadorned form. Paul DeFiglia on upright bass and Bobby Lewis on harp give a little structure for Little Freddie to expound from. Like a private conversation with a legend. A front porch record.
Here, Little Freddie plays classic works, many of which he first learned as an eight-yeard-old on a jury-rigged cigar box guitar in Mississippi. These are the songs he loves – from Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon,and Sister Rosetta Tharpe – and transformed in hands shaped by eight decades of living.
(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).
New Record Pressing – Devon Goldberg’s Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, performed by MORRICONE YOUTH, to the 2024 horror film Eight Eyes — the debut feature-length of director Austin Jennings (director/co-writer of Shudder’s “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”) which world premiered at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, shot on 16mm and Super 8 on location in Serbia and Macedonia and starring Scream Queen Emily Sweet (V/H/S ‘99). The film is co-produced by Vinegar Syndrome as the Blu-ray reissue label’s first entirely original production and distributed by Shudder in North America and Donau Film in Europe. 11-Track LP (42 minutes) with 21-Track Digital Download Card (56 minutes).
Available October 31, 2024.
(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).
New record pressing — Eilen Jewell – Butcher Holler, A Tribute To Loretta Lynn.
Butcher Holler is named for the little Kentucky town where Loretta Lynn was raised – On the tribute album of the same name, acclaimed singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell pays homage to Lynn’s humble roots and timeless, hard-hitting writing and performance style – For the first time, Butcher Holler is now available on vinyl, remastered and expanded with three brand new tracks. Jewell writes, “And so, a toast: to the woman with more banned songs than anyone can count; to that voice that reaches the very grain of the theater walls around her; to our national treasure. Gratitude is not enough, so I sing these songs for any who will listen.” The Boston Globe praised, “There’s an irresistible snap to these songs- they’re tight, deliciously twangy and rendered without orchestrated frills… [a] deft tribute.”
Available October 11, 2024 courtesy of Signature Sounds.
Amarionette is a NÜ Funk/Rock band from Las Vegas, NV that formed in 2010. Over the last several years they have embarked on numerous tours with national acts such as Kurt Travis, Strawberry Girls, Eidola, Andrés, etc.
New record pressing – Larry & Joe – Manos Panamericanos. Brand new album, available now!
Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry worked construction to make ends meet. Joe’s acclaimed “latingrass” band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted into action working with asylum seeking migrants. Then Larry met Joe.
Currently based in the Triangle of North Carolina, both men are versatile multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters on a mission to show that music has no borders. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, maracas, guitar, upright bass, and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.
Tall Heights new record pressing – Softly Softly, comes out October 18, 2024. But you can get the whole record right now. That’s right, all 11 brand new songs can be in your inbox today.
The Endless Autumn Experience is a 10 day virtual immersion in Softly Softly that finds you every couple days in your inbox. Go behind the scenes of what inspired each song, the message behind the lyrics, the journey of this album, and also gain access to some really cool exclusive events and free exclusive offerings. Both of us will be available for live virtual hangs and online interaction throughout. As the name and release date imply, this album is all about fall vibes, and even now in the splendor of summer (let’s enjoy it!), we’ll be offering up what we love most about Autumn: self reflection, and soothing serenity.
New record pressing – Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born. Available October 18, 2024.
Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan’s, A Lover Was Born with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. A Lover Was Born is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia, instead, they are at the burning heart of longing and hope.
The journey Finnigan takes listeners on over Lover’s eleven tracks echo the state of motion and growth since his solo debut, The Tales People Tell (2019). These two records bookend a prolific period of output, including a pair of Monophonics albums, a Christmas album, a mixtape, and a full slate of producing and engineering (The Ironsides, Alanna Royale, the Sextones). “There’s nothing like making records,” says Finnigan. “It feels like that’s my purpose — the reason I was put on this earth.”
Written in California, Ohio, and Staten Island, Kelly Finnigan collaborated with old friends in and outside the studio. “I enjoy working alone but it’s not how you want to make a record…almost everybody I brought in for this album I’ve worked with, toured with or spent a great deal of time with.” Max and Joe Ramey (The Ironsides), Jimmy James (Parlor Greens), Sergio Rios (Orgone), Joey Crispiano (Dap Kings) and Jay Mumford (aka J-Zone) all contribute to the overall sound of A Lover Was Born.
Dramatic influences like Isaac Hayes (check out the piano on “Be Your Own Shelter”) and Jerry Ragovoy are chopped and folded into Northern Soul uptempo numbers to create stompers like “Get a Hold of Yourself” or “Chosen Few”. Finnigan’s take on Deep Soul is captured brilliantly on “Walk Away from Me” and “Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)”, while Boom Bap pervades on hard hitters “His Love Ain’t Real” & “Cold World”. Slower songs such as “Let Me Count the Reasons”, the emotional “All That’s Left”, and the soul-stirring album closer “Count Me Out” show the honest and tender side that has become Finnigan’s calling card. All the while, the voice is raw and earthy — in the best tradition of R&B shouters like Otis Redding, Lee Moses, and David Ruffin.
The songs on A Lover Was Born reconfigure the spliced and sampled DNA of hip hop (extracted by crate diggers like Dilla and RZA) to create something new, underscoring both the spectrum and depth of soul while making a case to the timelessness of Finnigan’s sound.
New record pressing! Kitty Craft – Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch deluxe 2LP set.
Limited edition of 700 coke bottle green with yellow swirl vinyl 2xLP with 320 kpbs MP3 download coupon included. Includes Kitty Craft’s first two EPs It’s Stupid and I Got Rulez, the five bonus tracks featured on the new Takotsubo Records edition CD, and the Rock Records (Japan) CD bonus tracks. Original artwork on a gatefold jacket with an obi card.
Hard to believe….15 years ago today, we were pressing our very first records. A split LP by Deathers and Freedom. The order was for 100 copies, and it probably took us 3 weeks to finish pressing. Late nights spent drilling and punching labels for the next day (burning through thousands to get any good records), chewing through many stampers. When the job was picked up, it felt like a milestone and a big “gulp, what did we get ourselves into?” at the same time.
Thankfully, in the past 15 years, things have progressed quite a lot from those early days. We have grown incredibly — now running 8 presses over two shifts, operating our own plating facility, and employing nearly 60 people at our two locations across Ohio. We would not be where we are today without our dedicated employees – some of whom have been with us 15 years.
Finally, a special thanks to all of our customers — many of whom have been working with us for nearly 15 years as well! We could not be where we are today without you.
