ROOTS MUSIC LABELS & DISTRIBUTORS

AUSTRALIA

The label's key strengths are in Blues, Christian, Country, Pop, Rock and Urban genres - with a growing stable in Jazz, Folk and World music.

ONLY BLUES  MUSIC www.onlybluesmusic.com  Aussie distributor for Blues catalogue.......major blues labels

Aussie distributor of Alternative, Country, Americana, Alt Country, Blues Cds and Dvds.

http://www.vitamin.net.au Australian distributor of independent music

CANADA

Electro-Fi Records was founded in 1996 by Blues aficionado ANDREW GALLOWAY with a great deal of help from both his long time friend and high school Garage band mate GARY COLLVER and sonic guru extraordinaire ALEC FRASER. The label’s first signing was Chicago harp master MALCOLM “Little Mack” SIMMONS and Electro-Fi’s first release in January of 1997 was “Little Mack is Back” (EFI-3355).

With over 50 original releases in our first ten years of operation, we remain dedicated to preserving and promoting the Blues music that we love so dearly.

Americana, Alt Country label

NORTHERNBLUES Canada's newest blues label,
dedicated to bringing you
the best in world class blues!

Founded in 1969 and with over 450 releases, 40 JUNO Awards and 37 gold and platinum records to its credit, True North is a unique Canadian recording company dedicated to fostering creativity among its artists.

EUROPE

Black and Tan is an independent record label & publishing company. The company was founded in 1998 and we're based in the Netherlands. We are passionate about music and look for artists that can sing and have something to say. You'll find story telling music that is created by artists who write and sing their own songs about their own life. The voice and the story are the roots of this original, honest and handmade music.

Crunchy Frog was founded as a Copenhagen indie label by the four members of THAU back in 1994. Even though the label is no longer an underground operation, and despite the fact that nowadays Crunchy Frog has moved out of the flat that used to be the HQ, the philosophy and ambition is still the same: to release quality music in the area of alternative pop and rock under the conditions of full creative control for the bands. And since we started out as musicians, we know how much that counts. The important thing isn't always the bottom line and the $$$, but that we are able to maintain our position as the most interesting indie-label around! And not just around our native country of Denmark: Crunchy Frog is the best record label in the Universe! Ever!!

Ruf Records out of Germany has interesting stable of Blues Artists including Walter Trout and Omar and The Howlers

World Music label

NEW ZEALAND

NZ label for great Alernative sounds and Artists.

Local distributor of variety of Roots based music labels

Welcome to Failsafe Records
We specialise in guitar based acts, ranging from swooning pop and driving powered rock to swirling sonic soundscapes.

LOOP Media Ltd. has been in business since 2001 and is a multi-level medium for new ways of thinking in music and motion graphics. With 30+ releases in CD, DVD and vinyl formats, LOOP is proudly NZ owned and operated.

This is a site where you can view new release information and explore Ode Records’ extensive catalogue of New Zealand, Pacific and World Music.

Indie label with interesting acts.

UNITED KINGDOM

 www.charly.co.uk

Part of Fellside Recordings that specialise in quality UK Folk, Traditional and Jazz artists

Set up in late 2003 by the Jazz Cafe's Adrian Gibson, Freestyle Records has rapidly amassed a consistently strong and impressive catalogue of fine and funky releases. Featured artists include luminaries such as Chaka Khan, Fred Wesley, Soulive, Chali 2Na (Jurassic 5), Me'shell Ndegeochello, The Beatnuts, JTQ featuring Roy Ayers, Lewis Taylor, Michael Franti, Saul Williams and Ursula Rucker. 

Greentrax Recordings
'Scotland's Favourite Record Company'
Scottish music * Celtic music * Gaelic music CDs

JSP RECORDS...........Real Blues.........Real Blues Artists www.jsprecords.com

Navigator Records - Check out for amazing folk artists!

UK distribution company for Americana, Blues, Jazz, Soul

www.realrecords.com
Real World Records was founded by WOMAD and Peter Gabriel to provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.

SNAPPER MUSIC

www.snapper.com

WORLD CIRCUIT www.worldcircuit.co.uk World music label with African and Cuban artists

Whirlwind Recordings Ltd. was established in early 2010 by international recording artist, freelance bassist, composer, bandleader, and producer Michael Janisch.

USA

Label for World, Blues, Jazz, Nu Age, Alternative music

 ALLIGATOR RECORDS- Legendary blues label with a mighty catalogue of artists.

 Great label of Blues Artists

Since 1994, Bloodshot Records has championed the music that lurks between genres. We've always been drawn to the good stuff nestled in the dark, nebulous cracks where punk, country, soul, pop, bluegrass, blues and rock mix and mingle and mutate

Modern Jazz label with large roster of contemporay Jazz Artists

CATFOOD RECORDS www.catfoodrecords.com small label with selected artists including Soul/Blues Artist Johnny Rawls

100% Organic, No Machines, Real Musicians, Real Soul Blues!

Co-founded in 1994 by musicians Alison Brown and Garry West, Compass is a new breed of roots-music label: eclectic, sophisticated, and artist-friendly. Called “one of the greatest independent labels of the last decade” by Billboard Magazine, Compass Records has provided a thriving haven of creativity for artists and a reliable beacon of quality for music fans. Its 2006 acquisition of the Green Linnet catalog and the 2008 acquisition of the seminal Mulligan Records label has made Compass the place to go for Celtic and roots music.

Presents exceptional music from around the world.Created by Jacob Edgar, also Putumayo's principal music researcher.

The best of Jazz and Blues since 1953...some record!

Check out for lots of contempory blues artists. Label just won"Publishing Company Of The Year" 2008 Roots Music Association award.

Dixon Landing Music was created by Alex Dixon, grandson of the legendary Willie Dixon, with the focus to reach out to the little known or undiscovered musician/artist and to bring back the Chicago Blues feel that his grandfather helped create.

EARWIG MUSIC - Great catalogue of Blues, Jazz and Gospel!

www.electrogliderecords.com/

Blues, Soul label

2012 was a breakthrough year for Ellersoul Records! Our catalog is growing with 3 more CDs on the way this year. We've also partnered with City Hall Records to distribute our music to over 2,400 retailers in the US. All around the globe, stellar reviews came in for our family of artists.

harmonia mundi is the largest independent producer of classical recordings in France, but harmonia mundi is also prized as a full-line music distributor!
To explore the entire range of classical, jazz, pop, and world music labels which we distribute (and their complete offerings), please log on to our website.

LVD is primarily focused on documenting
1) The NZ underground, 2) American outsider free-folk,
3) Japanese Psych-rock

Great catalogue of Americana artists

Label inspired by David Byrne...interesting array of talent here.

MALACO - After more than 30 years of making black music for black people, Malaco Records defines the state of contemporary southern rhythm and blues, soul, and gospel. www.malaco.com  

Label with great catalogue including Steve Earle, Buddy and Julie Miller, Ben Lee.....check 'em out!

Nonesuch Records has grown over the last four-and-a-half decades to pursue a broad mission, including classical music, contemporary music, jazz, traditional American and world music, popular and alternative music, music theater and dance.

 Founded in 2003 as an archival record label by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley, Numero has evolved into a multi-format media company, devoted to dragging brilliant recordings, films, and photography out of unwarranted obscurity.We’re on a dirty, labor-intensive mission... and it’s urgent as all hell. Time kills off precious bits of passed-over sound, story, and ephemera every day, just as fast as we can haul this sprawling archive of under-heard recordings—along with the musicians, writers, and entrepreneurs who created them—out of exile.

Out Of The Past Music is an independent roots music record label dedicated to the preservation and furtherance of Southern American blues-based music styles. Our mission is to preserve great music in the roots tradition and to forward the creation of new music that is based in the stylings and attitude of the great roots music originators.

Putumayo World Music was established to introduce people to the music of the world's cultures.

Blues, Americana, Folk......

In 1993, former Aerospace Engineer, John W. Edwards had the idea to form a new recording label which would focus on the reissue of classic rock and classic country LPs on CD for the first time, thus Renaissance Records was born.

Blues, Americana........for all original great Roots music

Some fantastic artists on this label include Crooked Still and Eilen Jewell.

Hey their statement says it all!

The Texas  music Group, home of Antone, Lone Star and Watermelon labels

A great, diverse label from Chicago, USA releasing a wide variety of genres. Artists include Bobby Conn, Freakwater, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise.

Country Blues label, Charlie Louvin is part of.

TOPCAT RECORDS