Crossroads of America: new music from Chemic and Mike Adams
Mike Adams of husband&wife manages a label in Bloomington, Indiana, called Crossroads of America Records. Spinning the name off of the state’s slogan, Adams hopes to bring more creative awareness to Indiana than it just being a state that people drive through. They have already released ten albums from Rodeo Ruby Love, husband&wife, Canterbury Effect, Alexander the Great, Frank Schweikhardt, and Orangeyellowred.
Crossroads of America Records, also called XRA, is not waiting long to release their first two albums of 2008. Today, January 15, XRA is releasing Chemic‘s Fever on the Forest Floor full length. This will be XRA’s first digital-only release, sold exclusively on iTunes and Emusic.
Chemic – Fever on the Forest Floor track listing:
1. Don’t Stop
2. Mississippi in Memphis
3. Off the List
4. War is Over
5. Good Mary
6. Don’t Go Close
7. Your Ocean
8. Let’s Take Care of Ourselves
9. Calm Killers
10. You Treat Me Like Science
11. Lesser Known Poets
Also being released today is an album that was meant to be XRA’s first release. Cataloged as XRA-001, Mike Adams is releasing Mike Adams and His Dust Collectors, a handpressed 3″ CD five-track instrumental ep.
Mike Adams and His Dust Collectors track listing:
1. Big Four and the Nickel Plate
2. Bruce Spangled Banner
3. Alton Bouse’s Blues
4. Amazing Graceland
5. Beneath Warren’s Hill
XRA have more albums coming in 2008. “We’ve got a very busy release year ahead of us. We’re already gearing up for new records from husband&wife, Rodeo Ruby Love, Alexander the Great, and Frank Schweikhardt, not to mention all of the top secret stuff that’s not quite set in stone that we can’t tell you about just yet! it’s going to be a good year.” (Myspace)