Saddle Creek Records

Saddle Creek Records
Saddle Creek Records
Founded	1993
Founder	Mike Mogis; Justin Oberst
Distributor(s)	Redeye Distribution (US)
Genre	Rock
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	Omaha, Nebraska
Official website	saddle-creek.com

Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel. The label is named after Saddle Creek Road, a major street which cuts through midtown Omaha and also the beginnings of a scene whose members included Justin's brother Conor Oberst (at the time a solo artist and now from Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Desaparecidos, and Monsters of Folk), Tim Kasher (then of Slowdown Virginia, currently of Cursive and The Good Life), 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 result of a class project on entrepreneurship. Distribution is handled by Redeye Distribution.^[2]

Quick Facts Founded, Founder ...

SCR continues to be the flagship label of a style of music called "The Omaha Sound", characterized by a slight country twang. Justin Oberst was 13 years old at the time of the first Lumberjack release, Conor Oberst's "Water". A "sister label" of sorts, to Saddle Creek is Team Love, which was begun by Conor Oberst in 2004.

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Year	No.	Artist	Title	Format
1993	LBJ-01^[8]	Conor Oberst	Water	CS
1993	LBJ-02^[9]	Polecat	Dilly Dally	CS
1994	LBJ-03^[10]	Slowdown Virginia	Dead Space	CD
1995	LBJ-04^[11]	Smashmouth	Some of You Will Be Hermits	CS
1995	LBJ-05^[12]	Polecat/Sunbrain	Happy Valentine's Day/Makeout Party	Split 7-inch
1995	LBJ-06^[13]	Commander Venus	Do You Feel at Home?	CD
1995	LBJ-07^[14]	We'd Rather Be Flying	The Solution for Your Thinning Hair	CD
1995	LBJ-08^[15]	Norman Bailer	Sine Sierra	CS
1996	LBJ-09^[16]	Various	Music Me All Over	7-inch
1996	LBJ-10^[17]	Cursive	The Disruption	CDr, 7-inch
1996	LBJ-11^[18]	Lullaby for the Working Class	Consolation	7-inch
1996	LBJ-12^[19]	Lullaby for the Working Class	Blanket Warm	LP
1996	LBJ-13^[20]	Drip/Commander Venus	Last Go/Bow to the Prom King	Split 7-inch
1997	LBJ-14^[21]	The Wrens/Park Ave.	Split Single	Split 7-inch
1997	LBJ-15	Lullaby for the Working Class	...In Honor of My Stumbling	7-inch
1997	LBJ-16	comm.venus*	The Uneventful Vacation	LP
1997	LBJ-17	Lullaby for the Working Class	I Never Even Asked for Light	LP
1997	LBJ-18	Cursive	The Icebreaker	7-inch EP
1998	LBJ-19	Bright Eyes	A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997	LP
1997	LBJ-20	Various	A Sampler CD	CD
1998	LBJ-21	The Faint	Media	CD
1998	LBJ-22	Cursive	The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song	CD
1998	LBJ-23	Bright Eyes	Letting Off the Happiness	CD/LP
1999	LBJ-24	Lullaby for the Working Class	The Ebb & Flow, the Come Go, the To & Fro	7-inch
1999	LBJ-25	The Faint/Ex-Action Figures	split	Split 7-inch
1999	LBJ-26	Gabardine	Gabardine	CD
1999	LBJ-27	Lullaby for the Working Class	Song	LP
1999	LBJ-28	The Faint	Blank-Wave Arcade	LP
1999	LBJ-29	Spoon	The Agony of Laffitte	CD Single
1999	LBJ-30	Bright Eyes	Every Day and Every Night	EP CD/12"
2000	LBJ-31	Cursive	Domestica	CD/LP
2000	LBJ-32	Bright Eyes	Fevers and Mirrors	CD/LP
2000	LBJ-33	The Faint	Blank-Wave Arcade Remixes	12-inch

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