- Favored Nations
Favored Nations is a
record label started by guitaristSteve Vai and former Guitar Center ownerRay Scherr in 1999. The firstalbum ever released by Favored Nations was Frank Gambale's "Coming to Your Senses" in2000 . Not long after that, artists such asEric Johnson ,Dweezil Zappa ,Larry Carlton ,Eric Sardinas , andSteve Lukather (whose album "No Substitutes" won aGrammy award for Best Pop Instrumental),Neal Schon ,Johnny Hiland ,Stanley Jordan ,Allan Holdsworth ,John Petrucci ("An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess", as well as his own solo album "Suspended Animation"), Marty Friedman,The Yardbirds ,Dave Weiner , andPeppino D'Agostino , among others, signed to Favored Nations.Favored Nations was followed by separate branches called Favored Nations Acoustic in
2002 and Favored Nations Cool in2004 . Pro-Found is a sister label that is basically a promotional tool for Favored Nations artists through the Favored Nations and ProFound dot coms.A few of the most current Favored Nations releases are:
* Tommy Emmanuel - The Mystery (2006)
* Tommy Emmanuel - Live At Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat, Australia DVD (2006)
* The Yardbirds - Live At B.B. King Blues Club (2007)
* Eric Sardinas - Eric Sardinas and Big Motor (2008)External links
* [http://www.favorednations.com/ Favored Nations homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/favorednations Favored Nations myspace page]See also
*
List of record labels
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