Grimtale Records Official Archive: GRIM009 - Joel Monroe

Front cover

About the release:

This record is the inaugural release from the Grimtale records Raw Series featuring raw recordings. All the records from this serie share the same labels.

The raw series was conceived as the result of several bands that we were interested in releasing not being able to provide high quality studio recordings and thus not ever materializing. Its more about the concept of the buyer being ok with less than perfect audio recordings and something a little more RAW in nature. And at the same time, It's about exposing some new and inspiring talent that otherwise may not have made it due to limits outside their control. I'll likely go low budget on future Raw Series releases, but for this initial release, we went all out.

Band's bio

Joel Monroe grew up in the small town of Leon, Iowa. He started playing guitar at age 12 and writing original songs by age 16. Without many musical opportunities in the town of Leon, Joel performed around the downtown parts of Des Moines, the Iowa capital. Seldom could Monroe find musicians to accompany him in his musical work. Therefore, he had no other choice but to turn to his drum machine now known as, "Gene The Machine." After writing 10 raw bitten songs, Monroe recorded in a 10x7 ft. room, and thus Joel's first album, "Box Elder," was born. This 45 contains two singles from "Box Elder"

Special Thanks to: Dylan Monroe

Tracklist:

Side-A: Black Cat Blues

Runout groove etching: GRIM-009-B-This Guy Inspired The Raw Series

Side-B: Weatherman

Runout groove etching: GRIM-009-A-Never Leave The 70's

Back cover

Regular edition:

75 copies released on black / clear swirl colored vinyl

Subscriber* variant edition:

30 numbered copies released on red / black swirl colored vinyl
Alternative red cover

* in 2013, Grimtale Records sold a subscription that included a regular and a subscriber only variant of GRIM-005, GRIM-008 and GRIM009 records, a subscriber only slipmat plus the right to enter subscribers only contests.

Variant edition:

25 copies released on purple colored vinyl
Alternative purple cover

Rejected covers:

Due to a printer mistake, the first batch of GRIM-008 and GRIM-009 covers were misprinted and rejected. Most of them were destroyed but a few were randomly inserted in orders. If you can collect the four sleeves (3 editions of GRIM-009 and GRIM-008) you'll get a copy of the GRIM-010 7" that will never be sold.