Red House Records is an American independent record label specializing in folk music based in St. Paul, Minnesota. The label was originally created in 1981 by Greg Brown as a method to distribute his own music, and is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where he was living. After Brown's albums 44 & 66 and The Iowa Waltz were released in 1981 and 1982, it briefly went dormant until he met Bob Feldman in 1983. Feldman took over operation of the record l...
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Red House Records is an American independent record label specializing in folk music based in St. Paul, Minnesota. The label was originally created in 1981 by Greg Brown as a method to distribute his own music, and is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where he was living. After Brown's albums 44 & 66 and The Iowa Waltz were released in 1981 and 1982, it briefly went dormant until he met Bob Feldman in 1983. Feldman took over operation of the record label, while Brown focused on his musical endeavors (he had just signed on to regularly perform on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion). The first album released on the newly-restarted label was Brown's In the Dark with You.
Over the next few years, the label focused on publishing work by musicians in the upper Midwest, including Spider John Koerner, Prudence Johnson, Peter Ostroushko, Rio Nido and John Gorka. The label weathered difficult conditions as the music industry transitioned from vinyl to compact discs, and started signing...
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