An independent record label and book publisher, City Salvage Records was founded in the autumn of 2001. The company's first release, in the autumn of 2002, was "Drawings & Other Failures," a CD-sized book of pencil drawings, polaroid photographs, and a long-form poem by Andy Friedman, the artist, musician, illustrator, and label's founder.

"From Long Gones To Hawkmoth," the debut album by Charlottesville, Virginia-based singer/songwriter and guitar player Paul Curreri, soon followed. In 2003, with the release of "Upstate Songs" by Devon Sproule -- also from Charlottesville and now married to Paul Curreri -- and "Songs To Devon Sproule," Curreri's second record (produced and engineered by Kelly Joe Phelps, who also accompanies Curreri on a tune) the label began to enjoy an increased volume of critical attention as well as a growing audience.

That same year the label welcomed Fredricksburg, Virginia-based poet and singer-songwriter Brady Earnhart ("Manalapan") and San-Diego based folk-pop balladeers Matt Curreri & The Exfriends ("How To Play The Songs Of Matt Curreri") to its roster.

Fronted by Marike Damhuis and Gibb Slife (a founding member and original guitarist of the indie rock band Les Savy Fav), the 2006 release of "Last Of The Lonely Ones" by Brooklyn-based art-punk and power-pop quartet Duchess broadened the label's primarily folk and country-blues repertoire.

Also in 2006, with the release of Andy Friedman's debut studio album "Taken Man" (released by Rounder Europe in 2007) the successful conversion of the label's founder from touring performance poet and visual artist to country songwriter and bandleader was marked. Produced and engineered by Paul Curreri, the album features guest appearances by Devon Sproule, Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, Melissa Ferrick, Natalia Zukerman, Jeffrey Romano, and Paul Curreri.

Five albums thusfar by Paul Curreri (whose latest, 2007's "The Velvet Rut," released by Tin Angel Records in Europe, enjoyed a five-star review in MOJO), a popular follow-up by Matt Curreri & The Exfriends ("Exercise Music For The Lonely," 2006), the addition of Charlottesville, Virginia-based singer-songwriter Keith Morris to its roster in 2007 ("Candyapolis"), and the enormously successful album by Devon Sproule ("Keep Your Silver Shined," 2007, released by Tin Angel Records in Europe), have done much to establish City Salvage Records' growing reputation as an exciting and successful independent record label.

With national distribution by E1 (formerly Koch Entertainment) established through a partnership Kindred Rhythm and Now Forward Music, Inc. in the fall of 2008 -- and a critically-acclaimed album, Weary Things, by Andy Friedman as it's first national title -- the label, its catalog, and its artists continue to grow, work, and create.