Melodeon Records is a
record label
"Big Three" music labels
A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...
set up in 1964 by
Richard K. Spottswood
Richard K. "Dick" Spottswood (born April 17, 1937) is an American Musicology, musicologist and author from Maryland, United States who has catalogued and been responsible for the reissue of many thousands of recordings of vernacular music in th ...
.
Melodeon Records issued - among others - the first recordings after his 'rediscovery' of
Skip James
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. AllMusic stated: "Coupling an oddball guitar tuning set against eerie, falsetto vocals, James' early recordings ...
and the 1940 Library Of Congress Sessions of
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played in a fluid, syncopated finger picking guitar style common among many Eas ...
. In 1970 the label was acquired by
Arnold S. Caplin's
Biograph Records.
See also
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List of record labels
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External links
Illustrated Melodeon Records discography
Defunct record labels of the United States
Blues record labels
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