Lagniappe (album)
Lagniappe is a compilation album released by the Omaha-based record label Saddle Creek, after the events of Hurricane Katrina. It is a benefit album, and all profits from its sale are donated to the Red Cross' relief efforts in New Orleans.
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | October 25, 2005 |
Label | Saddle Creek Records |
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The album is composed of mostly impromptu recordings, thrown together for this purpose. The Saddle Creek website explains it as follows:
Old favorites, new faces, and friends of Saddle Creek recorded these 13 tracks in bedrooms, basements, kitchens, living rooms, and even in a couple of studios. The album was put together in one week. It's a menagerie of mostly new songs, a few tracks that should have made it onto albums but for whatever reason didn't, a couple of B-sides, a demo song – whatever people could contribute.[2]
Most of the then-active bands on Saddle Creek contributed a track, including their most popular bands (The Faint, Bright Eyes) as well as some newer additions to the label (Two Gallants, for example).
Track listing
- Cursive – "Ten Percent to the Ten Percent"
- Maria Taylor and Andy LeMaster – "Breathe"
- Criteria – "Booketa"
- The Elected – "San Francisco Via Chicago Blues"
- Broken Spindles – "Move Away (Broken Spindles Remix)"
- Cocoon (Jake Bellows of Neva Dinova and Todd Fink of The Faint) – "She's a Ghost"
- Bright Eyes – "Napoleon's Hat"
- The Faint – "Hypnotised"
- Orenda Fink – "No Evolution (acoustic)"
- Mayday – "Footprints"
- Sorry About Dresden – "Sunrise: Norfolk, Virginia"
- Two Gallants – "All Your Faithless Loyalties"
- The Good Life – "New Year's Retribution"
References
- Allmusic review
- "Lagniappe CD". saddle-creek.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
See also
- Lagniappe – meaning of the word
- Saddle Creek 50