Royal Family Records

www.royalfamilyrecords.com The Royal Family

Royal Family Records is the evolution of the Soulive story and all its many chapters. It's a community and movement of musicians and fans that have been growing together for over a decade. March 2009 marks Soulive's 10th Anniversary. Ten years since Eric Krasno, Alan Evans and his brother Neal Evans got together for the first time at a home studio just outside of Woodstock, NY and recorded Get Down.

While ten years is something to celebrate, Soulive is not a band to look backward. The band is more concentrated on the future than concerned with revisiting its past. Unencumbered by record contract and fully equipped with a state-of-the-art recording studio, Soulive is embracing the new music business model by launching their own record label, "Royal Family Records." With a focus on digital distribution, the label will be an outlet for all Soulive recordings as well as numerous Soulive affiliated projects such as Lettuce, Eric's project "Chapter 2", Alan's and Neal's solo records and Break Science featuring Adam Deitch. The label will also sign emerging talent and develop them on tour with Soulive. The first artist to join up is soul singer Nigel Hall, who is the guest vocalist on "Too Much".

Soulive

New York's preeminent groove machine, Soulive, will be sure to have the entire room dancing and singing with this original soul and funk song, "Too Much" which features the core trio do Alan Evans, Neal Evans and Eric Krasno alongside Nigel Hall and the Shady Horns.

Lettuce

Feel the Groove! Lettuce, the seven-person all-star collective originally formed in 1992, pays homage to all stripes of funksters, including James Brown, Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock, Tower of Power, the Meters, Earth Wind & Fire, Parliament Funkadelics, J Dilla-music that reflects "our way of life," says bassist Erick "E.D." Coomes, who is joined in the groove onslaught by his co-ragers: keyboardist Neal Evans, saxophonists Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis, guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff, and drummer Adam Deitch.