Trix Records

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Trix Records is a record label set up in 1972 by Peter B. Lowry (f/k/a Pete Lowry) with a handful of 45s; by 1973, LPs were being released to great acclaim if minimal sales!. It lasted about a decade as an active label dealing mainly with Piedmont blues artists from the Southeastern states (the focus of Lowry's folkloric field research) with around eighteen albums in its catalog at its demise.

Its roster included blues artists such as Eddie Kirkland, Peg Leg Sam, Frank Edwards, Henry Johnson, Willie Trice, Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue), Robert Lockwood, Jr., Pernell Charity, Tarheel Slim, Roy Dunn, Homesick James, Big Chief Ellis, and 'Honeyboy' Edwards, John Cephas, Baby Tate, George Higgs, Boogie Woogie Red, Chuck Smith, Emmett Lee Brooks, Carben Givens, Little Dickie Rogers, Charlie Price, James Barnes, Cecil Barfield (a/k/a William Robertson), Harmonica Sammy Davis (a/k/a Little Sam Davis), Dan Del Santo, Maurice Reedus-el, a.o.