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LEFTOVER SALMON SIGNS WITH COMPENDIA RECORDS

Popular multi-genre touring band to release new studio album in March 2004

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 6, 2004) –Leftover Salmon, one of the most beloved bands on the wildly popular “jam band” circuit, has signed with Compendia Records. Michael Olsen, president of Compendia Music Group, made the announcement today.

Leftover Salmon’s new album, the self-titled LEFTOVER SALMON, will be released in March 2004.

It’s the band’s first studio album in 5 years, and the first to feature the band’s current line-up of founding members Vince Herman (vocals, guitar) and Drew Emmitt (vocals, mandolin, guitar) as well as Noam Pikelny (banjo), Greg Garrison (bass), Bill McKay (keyboard, vocalist) and Jose Martinez (drums).

“Fun, music, jams, bluegrass, rock, great guys, super fans - I could go on and on describing the Leftover Salmon experience,” said Walt Wilson, general manager and vice-president of Compendia Music. “We are thrilled to be working with this amazing group of musicians. It’s a perfect match of artist and label.”

The sound of Colorado's legendary Leftover Salmon is unmistakable: fluid, loose-limbed, and simultaneously rootsy and daring. Fusing an unrivaled improvisational fervor to a dizzying combination of bluegrass, Cajun, funk, Southern rock, boogie, Caribbean, Latin, and jazz influences, Leftover Salmon has earned a legion of diehard fans, critical accolades, and a reputation as one of the most exciting, engaging concert experiences currently on the road.

The group was formed fourteen years ago in Boulder, Colorado, as the result of a merger between Herman, from Cajun/Calypso/jugband The Salmonheads, and Emmitt and Mark Vann of progressive bluegrass Left Hand String Band. Leftover self-released their first album, Bridges to Bert, in 1992 and the live Ask the Fish in 1995. They were then signed to Hollywood records, releasing Euphoria in 1997 and the widely-heralded, star-studded Nashville Sessions in 1999. After the untimely passing of Vann, one of the band’s founding members, in the spring of 2002, Leftover Salmon released Live (pronounced “liv”), a live album designed in tribute to Vann, on Compass Records. Recently, Leftover Salmon joined Cracker members David Lowery and Johnny Hickman for O Cracker, Where Art Thou?, which featured stripped-down, acoustic-based re-workings of some of Cracker’s choice tracks.

Compendia Music Group is an independent record company whose labels include Compendia Records, Light Records, Life² and Intersound Music. These labels, each with a separate staff and musical focus, produce and distribute a wide variety of music, including rock, R&B, soul, pop, gospel, lifestyle/inspirational, country, Christian and classical. For more information, please visit www.compendiamusic.com.

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