Yazoo Records
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Yazoo Records is a record label founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, bluegrass, jazz, and other rural American genres (collectively known as "roots" music).
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 (an art deco peacock) has been adapted from the 1927 Black Patti label.
On Yazoo Records Nick Perls compiled rare 78 rpm recordings made in the 1920s by such singers and guitarists as Charlie 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, Perls recorded 'rediscovered' black blues artists and younger blues and jazz performers.
In 1989 Yazoo was acquired by Shanachie Records.
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- Barbecue Bob
- Scrapper Blackwell
- Blind Blake
- Big Bill Broonzy
- Cannon's Jug Stompers
- 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
- Furry Lewis
- Los Jardineros
- Dennis McGee
- Blind Willie McTell
- Memphis Jug Band
- Mississippi Sheiks
- Charlie Patton
- Washington Phillips
- Ma Rainey
- Leo Soileau
- Charlie Spand
- Frank Stokes
- Roosevelt Sykes
- Tampa Red
- Henry Thomas
- Benny Thomasson
- Peetie Wheatstraw
- Casey Bill Weldon
- Robert Wilkins
- Tommy Johnson
