Yazoo Records
| Yazoo Records | |
|---|---|
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| Parent company | Shanachie Entertainment |
| Founder | Nick Perls |
| Genre | American roots, jazz, blues, country, folk |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | Newton, New Jersey |
| Official website |
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Yazoo Records is an American record label founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, country, jazz, and other rural American genres collectively known as roots music.[1]
The first five releases (L 1001 up to L 1005) were issued under the label name of Belzona Records. The label then was renamed to Yazoo Records, the first five releases being reissued under that new name.
The Belzona/Yazoo label, a drawing of an Art Deco peacock, was adapted from the 1927 Black Patti label.
On Yazoo Records Perls compiled rare 78 rpm recordings made in the 1920s by musicians such as Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Blake, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. On Yazoo's sister label Blue Goose Records, founded in 1970,[2] Perls recorded 'rediscovered' black blues artists and younger blues and jazz performers.
In 1989 Yazoo was acquired by Shanachie Records.[3] In 2014, Yazoo signed their first current artists, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band[4] and released their album So Delicious on February 17, 2015.
Artists
- Barbecue Bob
- Scrapper Blackwell
- Blind Blake
- Big Bill Broonzy
- Gus Cannon
- Bo Carter
- Rev. Gary Davis
- Sleepy John Estes
- Blind Boy Fuller
- Blind Uncle Gaspard
- Mississippi John Hurt
- Skip James
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Blind Willie Johnson
- Eddie Lang
- Furry Lewis
- Charley Lincoln
- Dennis McGee
- Blind Willie McTell
- Memphis Jug Band
- Mississippi Sheiks
- Charley Patton
- Washington Phillips
- The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
- Ma Rainey
- Leo Soileau
- Charlie Spand
- Frank Stokes
- Roosevelt Sykes
- Tampa Red
- Henry Thomas
- Benny Thomasson
- Joe Venuti
- Peetie Wheatstraw
- Casey Bill Weldon
- Robert Wilkins
- Tommy Johnson
See also
References
- ↑ "Yazoo Records Inc (profile and discography)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
- ↑ "Blue Goose Records (profile and discography)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
- ↑ "Shanachie Records Corp (discography)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
- ↑ "REVEREND PEYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND signs with Yazoo Records, readies 'So Delicious' for Feb. 17 release". Bluesmagazine.nl. Retrieved 19 November 2014.