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Yellow Dog Records<br />
Yellow Dog Records<br />
was founded in<br />
2002 in Memphis,<br />
Tennessee, by<br />
Michael Powers, with<br />
the goal of cultivating<br />
the American musical<br />
heritage. Named<br />
after the famous<br />
Delta train that W.C.<br />
Handy was waiting for in Tutwiler when he<br />
first heard the blues in 1903, the label<br />
features artists who emphasize innovative<br />
approaches to authentic American musical<br />
roots traditions—blues, jazz, soul, and<br />
Americana styles. By providing support for<br />
recording, production, promotion, and distribution,<br />
Yellow Dog Records brings this<br />
vital music to new and wider audiences.<br />
Artists including Eden Brent, Colin Linden,<br />
The Soul of John Black, Cassie Taylor, Fiona<br />
Boyes, Mary Flower, and others who make<br />
up the label’s extensive roster have been<br />
nominated for more than 30 Blues Music<br />
Awards. Current releases include albums<br />
by the Claudettes and the Ragpicker String<br />
Band with Mary Flower, Rich DelGrosso, and<br />
Martin Grosswendt. H<br />
Erik Lindahl<br />
Erik Lindahl was<br />
born in 1952 and<br />
lives in Sweden’s<br />
second-largest city,<br />
Gothenburg. He is<br />
a photographer and<br />
has focused on blues<br />
musicians and their<br />
environments since<br />
the early 1970s. Erik<br />
has documented the blues in Mississippi,<br />
Texas, Louisiana, St. Louis, Memphis, and<br />
Los Angeles, as well as clubs on Chicago’s<br />
West Side and South Side. Erik likes the<br />
atmosphere of black and white to catch<br />
the musicians and also the clubs where<br />
they perform and their patrons. The world’s<br />
oldest blues magazine, Jefferson (founded<br />
in 1968), has featured Lindahl’s photos<br />
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