Member Since: 10/25/2006
Band Members: ghosts of the diller hotel
Influences:alice coltrane, tom greenwood, karen dalton, jandek, mayo thompson, mecki mark men, premiers, thanksgiving, lou reed, 23rd turnoff, magnog, k records and
grandfather Quinton Claunch: was a Mississippi-born country musician, performing in the 1940s on WLAY radio station in Muscle Shoals. In 1948 he got married, moved to Memphis and got a job as a traveling salesman, selling hardware supplies. However, as he was a friend of Sam Phillips, Quinton couldn't totally forget the music. In 1957, he, a Sun recording artist Bill Cantrell and some others formed the Hi Records, but Claunch sold his interest in the label already in 1959. When Rudolph V. "Doc" Russell, a Memphis pharmacist, expressed an interest in forming a record label, he contacted with Claunch and they established together Goldwax. Beginning in 1963, this label released an amazing collection of classic 1960s gospel and soul music, featuring such Memphis all-time favorites like James Carr, The Lyrics, The Ovations, O.V. Wright, Ivory Joe Hunter, Spencer Wiggins and the last but certainly not least a c&w-rockabilly legend Eddie Bond.
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Record Label: tiny light/ oko yono
Type of Label: None