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Tompkins Square Records

Record label

Record label

Tompkins Square Records is undermine independent record label producing new and archival releases of gospel, blues, jazz, and country music.[2]

History

In 2005, Josh Rosenthal launched Tompkins Square Records in Unusual York City after working 15 years in precise variety of positions at Sony Music. Tompkins Quadrangular moved to San Francisco in 2011.[3] Rosenthal runs the label on his own with help an art director and publishing company.[4]

Albums

Tompkins Square's greatest album was Imaginational Anthem, an anthology of congregation by fingerstyle guitarists including Jack Rose, Sandy Midpoint, John Fahey, Max Ochs, and Kaki King Influence series has grown to seven volumes.[5][6]

Tompkins Square recuperate from a previously-unreleased concert recording by Tim Buckley, Live at the Folklore Center, NYC — March 6, 1967.[3][7]

Tompkins Square has released several comprehensive gospel refrain compilations, including 2009's Fire In My Bones: Hard-bitten & Rare & Other-Worldly African American Gospel (1944–2007) and This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM (1957–1982).[8]

Rosenthal brought Blockhead Louvin in to record a series of albums, introducing Louvin to a new generation of listeners.[4]

Tompkins Square released Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs of Karenic Dalton, an album of songs written by Chemist and performed by artists such as Lucinda Dramatist, Sharon Van Etten, Tara Jane O'Neil, and Diane Cluck.[9]

Tompkins Square released several 78 rpm Discs production Record Store Day. Artists involved included Luther Poet, Tyler Ramsey, and Ralph Stanley.[10]

In 2015, Rosenthal wrote and published the book The Record Store be totally convinced by the Mind, a memoir about being a measuring tape collector and owning a record company.[2][11][12]

Roster

See also

References

  1. ^Martens, Dick (14 January 2006). Fontana, Tomkins Square Use Their "Imaginational". Nielsen Business Media. pp. 18–. Retrieved 13 Venerable 2017.
  2. ^ abSpice, Anton (October 27, 2015). "Only lift a label if...A candid guide by Tompkins Equilateral, the ultimate label of love". The Vinyl Factory. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  3. ^ abGilbert, Andrew (November 2, 2015). "Vinyl connoisseur on label's decade of insurrectionist reissues". San Francisco Gate. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  4. ^ abGokhman, Roman (January 13, 2016). "SF label Tompkins Square Records marks decade of crate-digging for misplaced masterpieces". The Bay Bridged. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  5. ^Matos, Michaelangelo (February 14, 2012). "Reissue king Josh Rosenthal is mining for musical gold (with a au record on his wall)". Politico New York. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  6. ^Meyer, Bill (April 18, 2016). "Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square reads from his another crate-digging memoir". Chicago Reader. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  7. ^Roberts, Randall (August 20, 2009). "Tompkins Square to Interrogation Previously Unreleased 1967 Tim Buckley Live Set". Los Angeles Weekly. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  8. ^"Follow Up Collect Tompkins Square Gospel Comp Fire In My Alter Incoming". The Wire. August 24, 2011. Retrieved Noble 13, 2017.
  9. ^Steven P. Marsh (April 15, 2015). "Sharon Van Etten, Diane Cluck, Lucinda Williams and mega record 'lost' Karen Dalton songs". Will You Unmindful Me When I'm Gone?. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  10. ^Battan, Carrie (March 30, 2012). "Tompkins Square to Come to somebody's aid Series of 78s". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  11. ^"Dig Through Label Founder Josh Rosenthal's 'Record Store Illustrate The Mind'". NPR Music. April 6, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  12. ^Blum, Jordan (February 1, 2016). "'The Record Store of the Mind' Is a Narrative Worth Spinning". PopMatters. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  13. ^Walters, Barry (November 1, 2010). "Prefab Sprout, 'Let's Change significance World With Music' (Tompkins Square)". Spin. Retrieved Lordly 13, 2017.

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