Sundazed Records

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Sundazed Music
Founded1989 (1989)
FounderBob Irwin, Mary Irwin
Distributor(s)Redeye Distribution[1]
GenreGarage rock, surf music, psychedelic rock
Country of originU.S.
LocationHillsborough, North Carolina
Official websitewww.sundazed.com

Sundazed Music is an American independent record label founded in Coxsackie, New York and currently based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. It was initially known as a '60s-centric surf, garage, and psych label. Over time with the additions of imprints such as Modern Harmonic, Americana Anthropology, Beat Rocket, Dot Matrix Recordings, and Liberty Spike Recordings, their reach spans most genres and many decades while still firmly rooted as an archival label.[2]

History

Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989. Irwin's skill at restoring old vinyl records for the (then new)

Legacy Records label. Later, his restoration work included early material by the likes of Bob Dylan, Nancy Sinatra, and the Byrds. Irwin also worked at Arista
for a time.

The first Sundazed release was The Great Lost

LPs by New Orleans funk pioneers the Meters on vinyl and CD. The label later ventured into country music, including extensive reissues of Capitol Records albums by Buck Owens and other acts including Jimmy Bryant
. Sundazed also issued vintage jazz guitar albums through their Euphoria label.

Reissues

While Sundazed does license many of their releases from labels including

Rhino
, they do a large amount of licenses direct with the artists or the artists' estates.

Additionally, Sundazed Music has purchased catalogs over the years. These catalog purchases include the 1995 purchase of the 1966

The Kentucky Colonels) catalog. In 2021 they also purchased an extensive tape archive of the Kay Bank Studios to strengthen their partnership with The Trashmen
.

In 1995, Sundazed released a 20-track CD by The Pyramids, Penetration! The Best of the Pyramids. Bob Irwin worked closely with

Tony Hilder and band members Sam Eddy and Norman Knowles, he had their work which was recorded years before re-released.[3]

They reissued

Oar by Skip Spence in 1999.[6]

Sundazed reissued the

The Only Truth,[citation needed] which came out on Sundazed SC 11216.[8][9] Also that year, they released the long-lost Columbia sessions by the group Love.[10]

On June 24, 2018, it was reported that Sundazed Records would be reissuing

RCA Victor between 1970 and 1971 featuring Nesmith on guitar and vocals, with John Ware on drums, John London on bass, and O.J. "Red" Rhodes on pedal steel guitar.[11]

New releases

In 2015, after a conversation with former

Greg Martin about "Groovy Grubworm", an old instrumental record of which both were fond, Bob Irwin created subsidiary label Sundazed RFD, a label exclusively for instrumental 45 RPM recordings. "Groovy Grubworm" by Harlow Wilcox And The Oakies, "Shark Country" by the SloBeats (a band composed of Kenny Vaughan, Dave Roe and Maxwell Schauf) and "The Lonely Bull" by The East Nashville Teens were among the first records to be released by the new label.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Redeye Worldwide - Redeye WORLDWIDE, All Labels (Retrieved 2018-06-30)
  2. ^ Discogs - Sundazed Music
  3. ^ a b c Billboard, August 10, 1995 - Page 87 REVERSE TAKEOFF: SURF'N'ROD MUSIC REVIVALS INTENSIFIES
  4. ^ Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014, By Greil Marcus - Page 403
  5. ^ Becoming the Beach Boys, 1961-1963, By James B. Murphy - Page 260
  6. Observer.com, July 19, 1999 - Bonus Tracks Can't Sink Oar – Beck, Tom Waits Sing in Praise By David Bowman
  7. ^ NPR, December 21, 2007 - MUSIC INTERVIEWS, Moby Grape Just Can't Catch a Break, Legal Woes
  8. ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine - MORLY GREY®, "THE ONLY TRUTH"©
  9. ^ Record Collector, Issue #385 - Morley Grey - The Only Truth, Unholy Rollers - Reviewed by Marco Rossi
  10. ^ The Second Disc, August 7, 2013 - NEWS, From “Love Lost” to “Found Love”: New Digital Compilation Showcases Arthur Lee's Rarities - Mike Duquette
  11. ^ Ultimate Classic Rock, January 24, 2018 - Michael Nesmith's First National Band Albums Set for Reissue By Dave Swanson
  12. ^ Fox, Randy (25 June 2015). "Instrumental music label Sundazed RFD brings the beat of Music City". Nashvillescene.com. Retrieved 29 August 2023.

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