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Founded
  
2009 (2009)

Location
  
Atlanta, Georgia

Country of origin
  
United States

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Genre
  
Rock Americana Southern independent music Alternative country Roots

Official website
  
www.thisisamericanmusic.com

Founders
  
Nick Nichols, Jay Cooper, Corey Flegel, Sean Courtney

Albums
  
My Dearest Darkest Neighbor, Become My Blood

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This is American Music (also known as TIAM) is an American independent record label that specializes in rock and Americana music, particularly by artists from the Southeastern United States. It was formed in 2011.

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History

The idea for the label came from co-founder Corey Flegel experience of going out on tour with Murfreesboro, Tennessee's Glossary for years, where he became fast friends with them and other bands in their circle (The Dexateens, Vulture Whale, The Only Sons, Duquette Johnston (Verbena) The Bohannons, etc.). Flegel came up with the idea in 2010 of creating a blog to post concert dates and other material about the group of bands. The website was called "This Is American Music", named after a tour some of the bands had undertaken a few years previously. The label was an offshoot of the blog, and began releasing records in 2011.

Characterized by No Depression magazine as "a record label that is more of a family than a business," the management team is spread out across the Southeast, with the team based in Atlanta, Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Mississippi. TIAM provides bands with marketing, touring, legal, song licensing and placement guidance. TIAM releases music in digital and physical formats.

Artists

Listed alphabetically

  • 13ghosts (Birmingham, AL)
  • Bohannons (Chattanooga, TN)
  • Bonnie Whitmore (Austin, TX)
  • Browan Lollar (Muscle Shoals, AL)
  • Cosmonaut On Vacation (Birmingham, AL)
  • Dana Swimmer (Athens, GA)
  • The District Attorneys (Athens/Atlanta, GA)
  • Doc Feldman & the LD50 (Lexington, KY)
  • Dorado (Birmingham, AL)
  • El Cantador (Mobile, AL)
  • Ghost Shirt (Columbus, OH)
  • Glossary (Murfreesboro, TN)
  • Great Peacock (Nashville, TN)
  • The Holy Ghost Electric Show (Oxford, MS)
  • Hurray For The Riff Raff (New Orleans, LA)
  • Joey Kneiser (Murfreesboro, TN)
  • Kelly Kneiser (Murfreesboro, TN)
  • Kent Goolsby & the Gold Standard (Nashville, TN)
  • The Kernal (Jackson, TN)
  • Lauderdale (Muscle Shoals, AL)
  • Magnolia Mountain (Cincinnati, OH)
  • National Grain (Atlanta, GA)
  • The Only Sons (Murfreesboro, TN)
  • Party Dolls (Atlanta, GA)
  • The Pollies (Muscle Shoals, AL)
  • Porter and the Pollies (Muscle Shoals, AL)
  • Roger Bryan & The Orphans (Buffalo, NY)
  • Some Dark Holler (Birmingham, AL)
  • Surf Bored (San Francisco, CA)
  • Tedo Stone (Atlanta, GA)
  • Teen Getaway (Birmingham, AL)
  • Vulture Whale (Birmingham, AL)

    • Releases

    Listed alphabetically

    ‡ Double dagger symbol denotes co-release with Last Chance Records
    ∞ Infinity symbol denotes co-release Mod Mobilian Records

    Compilations

  • Music For The Mountains (2011)
  • A Frankenstrangler Christmas (2012)
  • This Is American Music (A Sampler) (2013)

    • Video

  • A Very Glossary Christmas (2013)‡ - Glossary, with cameos by Cory Branan, Birdcloud, Austin Lucas, and the "fabled" Courtney Koozie

    • ‡ Double dagger symbol denotes co-release with Last Chance Records

    Partnerships

  • Last Chance Records
  • Mod Mobilian Records

    • References

    This Is American Music Wikipedia
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