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 The next year, Buddy and Julie Miller were going to do a big tour of Holland and headline Greenbelt. They felt they couldn't do this without a backing band, so they asked The Electrics to be their backing band. The became good friends with the band, and this led to The Electrics flying the entire band to Nashville, Tennessee to record their next album //The Whole Shebang!// with Buddy Miller. The band had a great experience recording with Miller, and the resulting album "defined our sound a lot better" according to Horner.
+The Electrics were getting noticed in the United States, so they soon signed to [[5 Minute Walk]] / [[Sara Bellum Records]]. Their first album for their new label was a 1997 self-titled album that was mostly re-recordings of several older songs of theirs. That album was engineered and produced by Masaki Li ([[The Lonely Now]], [[Dime Store Prophets]], etc). Their next album for [[5 Minute Walk]] was 1998's //Livin' It Up When I Die//. That album was produced by [[Phil Madeira]] and engineered by Jordan Richter ([[This Train]]).
+During the tour for //Livin' It Up When I Die//, Horner found  out that the opening act [[The Smiley Kids]] was not making enough money to pay for hotel rooms or food. Horner called up the label head to ask about this, but found the label would not budge on how much money they were keeping of the band's sales. The head of the label claimed it was a fair deal. Horner threatened to tell the audience at every show about this and let them decide if it was fair, and that was the end of the relationship between The Electrics and [[5 Minute Walk]].
+The next album by The Electrics was 1998's //Danger Live Electrics// - a live album recorded at Christmas Rock Night in Germany. The festival was going to record two songs, but they recorded the whole set instead. Horner was not totally happy with the way the recording came out, due to the fact that the audience was not recorded well.
+The Electrics started playing fewer and fewer shows in the UK, but they still had a strong German fan base. This led to the band signing with a German record company called [[Pleitegeier Records]]. Their next album (2001's //Reel, Folk 'n' Rock 'n' Roll//) was also produced by [[Phil Madeira]] and engineered by Jordan Richter ([[This Train]]). Tim Cottrell was now playing fiddle for the band, so a lot of that album was fiddle driven.
+[[Pleitegeier Records]] had signed the band to a three album deal, but backed out after the first album (which was barely distributed according to Horner). Therefore, the 2005 album //Old, New, Borrowed & Green// was released through Horner's independent Tameyourtongue label.
+Also in 2005, a Festival in Norway asked The Electrics to come and headline for them. Money was tight and so, as part of the performance fee they offered the band a week in a beautiful old farmhouse dwelling and studio time plus an engineer. The Electrics recorded a song a day and just never got around to releasing the tracks. Almost 10 years later, they remastered the music and released it as //The Norway Sessions// in 2014.
+As Sammy Horner became more and more busy as a solo artist, the activity of The Electrics has decreased. Now there are just occasional get-togethers.
 ===== Discography =====
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 | 1998 | Livin' It Up When I Die | [[Sarabellum Records]] |
 | 1999 | Danger Live Electrics | ICC |
-| 2001 | Reel, Folk'n'Rock'n'Roll | PGF Media |
+| 2002 | Irish Invasion (compilation) | [[Pila Music]] |
-| 2005 | Old, New, Borrowed & Green |
+| 2001 | Reel, Folk'n'Rock'n'Roll | [[Pleitegeier Records]] |
+| 2005 | Old, New, Borrowed & Green | Tameyourtongue |
 | 2014 | The Norway Sessions |