Name: Honey and Tar
Brand: The Cornshed Sisters

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-MI-0465

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Colour

Black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-11-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060146097628

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CD-MI-0465

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Download code: No

5060146097635

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Cornshed Sisters

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Memphis Industries

At the tail end of the 90’s, against all the advice of older, wiser heads, brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob started the label Memphis Industries. As is often the case, the label was initially intended as a vehicle to release some pals EPs, with no further plans beyond that. Their first signing Blue States delivered the album Nothing Changes Under the Sun, a surprise success for the label, they then rode the original chill wave, before finding that those older wiser heads were pretty spot on about starting a label, and washed up with <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-go-team-23286fc4-a92f-4609-a8e7-8a5b8bc7d563">The Go! Team</a> as “definitely their last ever signing before they got proper jobs”. A Mercury Prize nomination, a bucket load of sales and international acclaim later, Memphis went from strength to strength. 2018 sees the label as the home of North-East legends <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/field-music">Field Music</a>, Minneapolis’ future R&amp;B superstars <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/polica">POLICA</a>, the wonderful Wonk-Pop of Dutch Uncles and many more.

Rough Trade's Emily Waller sat down with Ollie to talk about the history of the label, avoiding a “proper job” and his favourite projects so far:

To celebrate Memphis Industries being our Label Focus, we have the following special editions available now at Rough Trade, all purchases also come with a free CD sampler:

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/semicircle">Rough Trade Exclusive - 500 Copies on 180-gram Green Vinyl with Download.</a>

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/open-here">Rough Trade Exclusive - 500 Copies on Limited Edition 180-gram Blue Vinyl housed in Die Cut Sleeve with Download.</a>

Label Focus - Memphis Industries

The Cornshed Sisters release their second album Honey and Tar on Memphis Industries.

It was recorded and produced by Peter Brewis at Field Music’s Studio on the banks of the river Wear. The Cornshed Sisters are Jennie Brewis, Cath Stephens, Liz Corney (moonlighting from the Field Music band) and Marie Nixon (erstwhile of 90s upstarts Kenickie); four singer-songwriters based in Tyne and Wear, who weave together pop, folk, ballad and protest music into a unique and distinctive style. The Cornshed Sisters have been away for a while (their last album, Tell Tales, was released back in 2012), but we can probably let them off as they’ve been using the time well, becoming mothers, bringing millions of pounds of funding into major Sunderland arts projects, recording and touring with Field Music, and somehow making time to write songs and record this album together. Drawing on a palette of solo and harmony vocals and a blend of acoustic and electronic instruments, they convey their stories with sensitivity and humour. Their subject matter is love, motherhood, fake happiness, friendship, family, feminism and the increasing complexities of life as you get older but no wiser. The band are proud to write about their experiences as women and their song writing always has a stark realism to it - as Marie puts it when discussing the track We Have Said This Is Impossible: “True love is buggering off together in a Ford Focus”.