Yazoo Records
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Yazoo Records is a record label setup in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, bluegrass, jazz, and other rural American genres (collectively called "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 the 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
Memphis Jug Band
Mississippi Sheiks
Charlie Patton
Washington Phillips
Ma Rainey
Leo Soileau
Charlie Spand
Frank Stokes
Roosevelt Sykes
Tampa Red
Henry Thomas
Peetie Wheatstraw
Casey Bill Weldon
Robert Wilkins
Tommy Johnson
