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Yep Roc has three albums of great interest coming out soon:

- On November 4th, a 30th Anniversary reissue of Iris Dement's startling debut album Infamous Angel. Originally issued on CD only, the album was offered by Vinyl Me Please as their January 2022 Country title, and quickly sold out (I got my copy, did you? ;-). I can't praise Iris enough; she is my favorite living songwriter and singer. Utterly fantastic!

- Also on November 4th, a 10th Anniversary reissue of Tift Merritt's Traveling Alone. I have the album on CD, and will be getting the reissue LP.  Tift, another superior songwriter and singer.

- On November 11th, an 11th Anniversary reissue of Dave Alvin's Eleven Eleven album (like alliteration? ;-) . Most of you probably already know about Dave, but if you don't: He emerged as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of The Blasters (with his brother Phil on rhythm guitar and lead vocals), then moved on to the band X, and finally went solo. He has also collaborated with a favorite of mine, Jimmy Dale Gilmore. I haven't heard Eleven Eleven, but intend to.

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Thank You for the Tift and Dave(Alvin) suggestions.  Perhaps there will be a CD offering on both artists.  I do not know Iris ?

Happy Listening!

Yep Rock is issuing all three of the above albums on both LP and CD. The label has national distribution (my local independent stocks the label), but I don’t know about Amazon.

I learned of Iris from Merle Haggard, who recorded her devastating song "No Time To Cry". He was very effusive in his praise of her songwriting abilities (he was a "fair" writer himself ;-) . Other admirers of hers are Joan Osborne and Emmylou Harris, both of whom appear in videos of hers. Another is John Prine, with whom she collaborated and toured. She's a national treasure!