Trix Records

Trix Records was a record label set up in 1972 by Peter B. Lowry (f/k/a Pete Lowry) with a handful of 45s; by 1973, LPs were being released to great critical acclaim if minimal sales!. It lasted about a decade as an active label dealing mainly with Piedmont blues artists from the Southeastern states (the focus of Lowry's folkloric field research) with around eighteen albums in its catalog at the time of their sale to Joe Fields of Muse Records.

Its roster released on LP included blues artists such as Eddie Kirkland, Peg Leg Sam, Frank Edwards, Henry Johnson, Willie Trice, Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue), Robert Lockwood, Jr., Pernell Charity, Tarheel Slim, Roy Dunn, Homesick James, Big Chief Ellis, and 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Baby Tate, Boogie Woogie Red, Chuck Smith, Emmett Lee Brooks, Carben Givens a/k/a "Lamp", "Little Dickie" Rogers, Charlie Price, James Barnes, Harmonica Sammy Davis (a/k/a Little Sam Davis), "folk" artist Dan Del Santo, jazz artist Maurice Reedus-el, a.o.

See also

* List of record labels

External links

* [http://www.wirz.de/music/trix.htm Illustrated Trix Records discography]