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Yep Roc Records is an American, non-genre specific, independent record label based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States, and owned by Redeye Distribution.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Exploring the trials, errors and endurance of Yep Roc Records )〕 Since 1997, the label has been known for releasing records from both local North Carolina and international artists including Nick Lowe, Dave Alvin, Paul Weller, Ryan Adams, Robyn Hitchcock,Tift Merritt, The Reverend Horton Heat, Aoife O’Donovan,The Apples In Stereo, Chatham County Line, Los Straitjackets, and Gang of Four.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records Artists Archive » Yep Roc Records )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 ==History== Tor Hansen started the label in 1997,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc announces 15th-birthday bash )〕 two years after moving to North Carolina to help manage a chain of record stores in the South. In and around the musical hotbed of Chapel Hill, he encountered bands making good music but not really knowing how to get it out. Back in Boston, he’d worked at Rounder Records with his childhood friend and former bandmate Glenn Dicker. Tor had worked in sales, and Glenn had worked in promotions. They made the decision to try and do both together with their own label and their own distribution wing, Redeye.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 It started with a few local compilations featuring some recognizable names (Ryan Adams archivists will note Whiskeytown’s “Take Your Guns to Town” on YEP-2001, the inaugural 1997 release) and some names they hoped people would soon spot. There were no strictures or typecasts, no attempts to use the best bands in the vicinity to define a North Carolina sound or a Yep Roc brand. It was all simply stuff that Hansen and Dicker liked.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 “It has been a sort of organic growth,” says Hansen, “It wasn't like we just started a record label with all this money. There were roots to this thing, and they start way back. Slow growth has been a good thing for us."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Exploring the trials, errors and endurance of Yep Roc Records )〕 After about its first 100 releases, Yep Roc entered one of its most indicatively taste-driven spurts, releasing, in succession, records by Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould, Springsteen proselytes Marah, drifting folk act Dolorean and rock ’n’ roll madmen The Legendary Shack *Shakers. Jump down a few more catalogue numbers, and Yep Roc followed the debut of terse, tense post-punk act Cities with discs by alt-country progenitor Dave Alvin and Los Straitjackets, the masked surf rock stars whose sales a year earlier helped convince Hansen and Dicker that their personal and open approach to curating releases was a sustainable move.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 The success of Los Straitjackets and the experience of working with Dicker on the Rounder-distributed Upstart helped provide the convincer to Nick Lowe to join Yep Roc. And after recording an album with a band named Wilco, Young Fresh Fellow Scott McCaughey simply knew he wanted to be on the same label as Lowe, so he sent it over to Yep Roc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 “I’m a huge Nick fan, and I figured any label that was into Nick had to be cool,” McCaughey says. The label’s partnership with McCaughey has lasted nearly a decade, something he attributes to the openness of Dicker and Hansen to put their brand and money behind something they simply enjoy. “I’m surprised by the way they embraced my other bands, especially The Baseball Project. I’m also grateful that they support the Young Fresh Fellows occasional releases, with no hope of monetary gain.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yep Roc Records YR15: About Yep Roc Records » Yep Roc Records )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yep Roc Records」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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