Yazoo Records

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Yazoo Records is an American music label founded in 1967 by Nick Perls and Bernie Klatzko (as Belzona Records ) that specializes in blues , jazz, and other early American music.

The first five long-playing records (L 1001 to L 1005) were initially released under the label name Belzona Records . Then the name had to be changed for legal reasons, Perls opted for Yazoo Records (the Yazoo River forms the eastern border of the Blues Delta on the Mississippi ). The first five albums were also released again under the new name.

The Belzona / Yazoo logo, in the Art Deco style, drawn Peacock is from the Black Patti taken over label in the 1920s.

Nick Perls released recordings on Yazoo Records that were made in the 1920s and 1930s by musicians such as Charlie Patton , Blind Willie McTell , the Memphis Jug Band , Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson and were released as 78 rpm records at the time.

On the sister record label Blue Goose Records , which was founded in 1970, recordings by Afro-American blues musicians and younger blues interpreters from the USA and Great Britain were released.

Yazoo was bought by Shanachie Records in 1989, so that many of the recordings originally released between the 1960s and 1980s are still available today - albeit for the most part in a different composition (e.g. in the series Times Ain't Like They Used To Be ).

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