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MD Records , an independent label headquartered in Bristol TN was founded in 1998 by Dave & Mia Richards as a means to promote the band they were in at the time (Serenade). Regionally the duo had been working with other groups in the areas of booking, management, and live production, so it only made sense to extend the scope of what they were doing and use MD to help organize and promote the artists they had been working with.
Mia & Dave formed Gretchen in 2000 and accepted a record deal from the now defunct Rugged Records. During this time MD's activities were brought to a halt, after all they finally had a "real" deal. It wasn't too long before the honeymoon was over and the band realized that "the grass isn't always greener". Unfortunately Dave & Mia would then find themselves held captive by circumstance when Rugged announced their closing one year later and only one month after their national debut had appeared in stores. It appeared for a while that the band's career would end, and that Gretchen would remain a regional & underground anomaly.
With hind sight always being 20/20 Dave & Mia decided to resurrect MD and proceed with a new Gretchen album (In The Mean Time) which saw its release in Sept of 2004. Now the hope is to give other independent artists a forum to creatively express themselves & positivism through music. Armed with a belief that art (and obviously music) should build up instead of tearing down the people that engage it, MD plans to align itself with like minded artists for this purpose.