| Blackland Records | |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | John Kent, Tim Wheeler |
| Location | Celeste, TX, United States |
| Official website | blacklandrecords.com |
Blackland Records is an independent record label that was incorporated in 2005 by John Kent and Tim Wheeler.
An independent record label is a record label that operates without the funding of major record labels. Many artists begin their careers on independent labels.
Following John Kent's stint playing drums for Ben Kweller and Radish, businessman Tim Wheeler joined forces with the ex-rocker to form Blackland Records in 2005. After their incorporation, Blackland signed Brooklyn-based band Hymns, releasing their second album "Travel In Herds". [1]
Benjamin Lev "Ben" Kweller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times.
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with an estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects Staten Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County.
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts. SME performances and recordings could range from Stevens-Watts duos to gatherings of more than a dozen players.
The "Battle Hymn of the Republic", also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" outside of the United States, is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age with the American Civil War. Since that time, it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song.
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Blacklands or Blackland may refer to:
Radish were a self-proclaimed "Sugar Metal" band formed in 1993 by Ben Kweller, John David Kent, and Bryan Bradford.
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Hymns is an indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally consisting of North Carolina natives Brian Harding and Jason Roberts, the band picked up Texas-based rockers Tony Kent (drums) and Matt Shaw upon arriving in New York City. Since debuting with the "infectious" Brother/Sister the Hymns have been steadily gaining in popularity, appearing with such headliners as Ben Kweller, Hot Hot Heat, Beck, and the Sam Roberts Band. In 2008, the band released their second album, Travel in Herds, on the Blackland Records label. Spin Magazine named them as one of the artists to watch in 2008.
Travel in Herds is the second studio album by the band Hymns. It was released by Blackland Records on March 11, 2008. Since the release of this album, Hymns have been recognized by Spin magazine as one of the bands to watch out for in 2008.
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John David Kent is a country band based out of Celeste, TX. Consisting of John David Kent, formerly of the late 1990s rock band Radish, and other North Texas natives Randall Fuller, Tony Kent, and Colton Gilbreath.
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