Tompkins Square Records is an independent
record label producing archival releases of gospel, blues, jazz, and country music.
History
In 2005, Josh Rosenthal launched Tompkins Square Records in
New York City after working 15 years in a variety of positions at
Sony Music. Tompkins Square moved to San Francisco in 2011.
Rosenthal runs the label on his own with help from an art director and publishing company.
Albums
Tompkins Square's first album was ''Imaginational Anthem'', an anthology of music by
fingerstyle guitarists including
Jack Rose,
Sandy Bull,
John Fahey,
Max Ochs
Max Ochs (born Maxwell David Ochs in Queens, New York, Dec 31, 1940) is a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist and folklorist who recorded for Takoma Records among other labels.
Biography
His family moved to Annapolis, Maryland in 1945, where Ochs s ...
, and
Kaki King The series has grown to seven volumes.
Tompkins Square issued a previously-unreleased concert recording by
Tim Buckley, ''Live at the Folklore Center, NYC — March 6, 1967''.
Tompkins Square has released several comprehensive gospel music compilations, including 2009's ''Fire In My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African American Gospel (1944–2007)'' and ''This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM (1957–1982)''.
Rosenthal brought
Charlie Louvin in to record a series of albums, introducing Louvin to a new generation of listeners.
Tompkins Square released ''Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs of
Karen Dalton'', an album of songs written by Dalton and performed by artists such as
Lucinda Williams,
Sharon Van Etten,
Tara Jane O'Neil, and
Diane Cluck.
Tompkins Square released several
78 rpm Discs for
Record Store Day. Artists involved included
Luther Dickinson,
Tyler Ramsey, and
Ralph Stanley.
In 2015, Rosenthal wrote and published the book ''The Record Store of the Mind'', a memoir about being a record collector and owning a record company.
Roster
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A Broken Consort
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Aberdeen City
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Amédé Ardoin
* Tom Armstrong
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Daniel Bachman
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Brad Barr
Brad Barr (born July 27, 1975) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with The Slip, The Barr Brothers and Surprise Me Mr. Davis.
In 2007, Barr collaborated with Jade McNelis on her album ''All the Fables'' ...
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Robbie Basho
Robbie Basho (born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr., August 31, 1940 – February 28, 1986) was an American acoustic guitarist, pianist and singer.
Biography
Basho was born in Baltimore, and was orphaned as an infant. Adopted by the Robinson family, ...
* William C. Beeley
* Don Bikoff
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James Blackshaw
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Ran Blake
* Bob Brown
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Tim Buckley
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Joe Bussard
Joseph Edward Bussard Jr. (July 11, 1936 – September 26, 2022) was an American collector of 78-rpm records. He was noted for owning more than 15,000 records, principally from the 1920s and 1930s, at the time of his death.
Early life
Bussard ...
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Michael Chapman
* Richard Crandell
* Nick Jonah Davis
* Smoke Dawson
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Luther Dickinson
* Rick Deitrick
* James Elkington / Nathan Salsburg
* Frank Fairfield
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Mark Fosson
Mark Steed Fosson (May 16, 1950 – November 2, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter and American primitive guitarist who grew up in eastern Kentucky, where he began writing songs while he was still in his early teens. He got his start in t ...
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Charles Gayle
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Alice Gerrard
* Ben Hall
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Roscoe Holcomb
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Lena Hughes
Lena Hughes (1904–1998) was a guitar, fiddle, and banjo player known as an exemplar of the "parlor music" genre.
She was born in Missouri and lived in the town of Ludlow nearly all of her life. She started playing banjo around the age of nine a ...
* John Hulburt
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Bessie Jones with the
Georgia Sea Island Singers
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Calvin Keys
Calvin Keys (born February 6, 1943) is an American jazz guitarist, known for the several albums he released for Black Jazz Records.AllMusic Discography/ref>
Keys has performed and recorded with Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal, John Handy, Bobby Hutch ...
* Kid Millions
* Philip Lewin
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Mason Lindahl
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Giuseppi Logan
Giuseppi Logan (May 22, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was a jazz musician, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl B ...
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Charlie Louvin
* Bill Mackay
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Harvey Mandel
* Suni Mcgrath
* Shawn David Mcmillen
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Polk Miller
* Spencer Moore
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Bern Nix
Bern Nix (September 21, 1947 – May 31, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. He recorded and performed with Ornette Coleman from 1975 to 1987, notably with guitarist Charlie Ellerbee in Coleman's Prime Time group on their key recordings, inc ...
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Richard Osborn
Richard Osborn was the 20th President of Pacific Union College. He took office in 2001, serving until he resigned in 2009. Previously, he also served as President of the Council for American Private Education, a coalition representing 80% of privat ...
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Charlie Poole and the Highlanders
* Brigid Mae Power
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Prefab Sprout
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Tyler Ramsey
* Red Fox Chasers
* Ben Reynolds
* Sean Smith
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Powell St. John
Rayward Powell St. John (September 18, 1940 – August 22, 2021) was an American singer and songwriter, active on the mid-1960s Austin, Texas campus folk/bohemian music scene. He was an occasional member of various Austin rock groups, including ...
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Ralph Stanley
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Harry Taussig
Harry Arthur Taussig (alternately appearing as Harry Taussig, Arthur Taussig, or H. Arthur Taussig, born March 31, 1941) is an American physicist, biochemist, collage artist, photographer, film analyst, author, academic, and fingerstyle guitaris ...
* Michael Taylor /
Hiss Golden Messenger
Hiss Golden Messenger is an American folk music band, originating from Durham, North Carolina, led by MC Taylor (born September 9, 1975).
History
The band was formed by Mike (MC) Taylor and Scott Hirsch in 2007. The band's early recordings were ...
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William Tyler
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Dino Valente
Chester William Powers, Jr. (October 7, 1937 – November 16, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, and under the stage names Dino Valenti or Dino Valente, one of the lead singers of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. As a songwri ...
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Terry Waldo
Terry Waldo (born November 26, 1944) is an American pianist, composer, and historian of early jazz, blues, and stride music, and is best known for his contribution to ragtime and his role in reviving interest in this form, starting in the 1970 ...
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Peter Walker
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Ryley Walker
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Roland White
* Bill Wilson
See also
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List of record labels
References
External links
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American record labels
American independent record labels