Duluth Album Releases in 2005
Low
The Great Destroyer
Sub Pop Records (Jan. 24)
Available at Sub Pop’s Mega Mart
Boy Girl Boy Girl
Sugar Skull Maker
(March 28)
Available on Amazon
Trampled by Turtles
Blue Sky and the Devil
(April 20)
Available on Amazon
The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank
Self titled
Consider it Correspondence (July 1)
Available on Amazon
Jeffrey James O’loughlin
Happy Cow
Various Artists
… And the Heroin Screams Help! Volume One
Chåd
Great White Nothing
No Wait Wait
Self titled
Chairkickers Union Music
The Keep Aways
Self titled EP
Chairkickers Union Music
Ellie Schoenfeld
Almost Through the Rinse Cycle
Little House Records
Bill Meier
No Body Mind
Available from Savage Press
Brad Nailer
Notorious B.R.A.D.
Charlie Parr
Rooster
Eeriearq
Pain Farm
Three Altos
Camaradas
(Nov. 5)
Available on CD Baby
Jim Hall
Under a Broken Sky
(Nov. 19)
Lookdown Moon
Tonight Only EP
A few other titles, purportedly from 2005, with cover art that isn’t available: Vinny & the Barroom Standoff – Self Titled, Swimming With Nancy – self titled, The Little Black Books – Only One Name (in My Little Black Book), Various artists – Duluth Rocked, Vol. 1: 60’s Smash Hits, Various Artists – Beaner’s One Week Live, Vol. III, A Corrosive Melody – The Hour Hand vs. the Hourglass, Boku Frequency – Fancy Dancer and Hewitt Station – Everyone Has a Story.
I think the following are also 2005:
The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank – Self titled
Cheep Up Poems – Here Not Up There
Trampled by Turtles – Blue Sky and the Devil
Here is a link to my article from 2005 on my favorite songs of the year in Duluth.
Thanks Edgeways. You are correct on the Hobo Nephews and TBT, which I have added to the list. I had thought of the Hobo Nephews debut, but the band’s own website lists it as 2006 and Amazon lists it as copyright 2006 with a release date of Dec. 13, 2007. Further research, however, confirms the Hobos held an album release party at the NorShor on July 1, 2005, with Jamie Ness as the opening act.
The Cheer Up Poems album has a 2006 copyright on the back cover, so that one will appear on a future list.
I’ve also updated the list based on Andrew’s 2005 article. A few notes on that:
* The Alrights album High School, and the Bill Isles album The Calling were both released late in 2004 and appear on that list.
* Are there two Boku Frequency albums — one self titled and one called Fancy Dancer?
* I’m on the fence about whether White Iron Band qualifies as a Duluth band in 2005. It would be considered a Twin Cities band these days, but back then I think they operated out of the Iron Range area and played Duluth frequently enough to be on the edge of inclusion on the above list. We might have to take this dispute to arbitration or something.
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