Labor Records

Louisiana Red: When My Mama Was Living

1 CD / Labor Records / 2012-10-30

Tracks: Walk All Over Georgia - (previously unreleased); King Bee - (previously unreleased); When My Mama Was Living - (previously unreleased); Caught Your Man and Gone - (previously unreleased); Bad Case of...
Artists: Louisiana Red

Labor Records presents an album that pays tribute to one of the last giants of country blues whose passing ended that illustrious period of raw-boned,...continue...
Personnel: Louisiana Red (vocals, guitar, harmonica).

Liner Note Author: Kent Cooper.

Recording information: Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, NY; WKCR, New York, NY....continue...

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

2 CD / Labor Records / 2012-02-28

Tracks: No Exercise; Three Problems; Heidi; Bea's Flat; Love In the Middle of the Air [Alternate Master] - (alternate take); U.C.S.; All Tones; Fugue No. 2 [Take 1/Original Master], The - (take)
Artists: Heiner Stadler

Brains On Fire presents, for the very first time on a 2 CD set, some of the innovative early works of pianist/composer Heiner Stadler. These...continue...
Composer: Heiner Stadler.

Personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals); Tyrone Washington (flute, tenor saxophone); Joe Farrell (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Owens (trumpet); Garnett Brown (trombone); Do...continue...

Eric Salzman/Michael Sahl: Civilization and Its Discontents

1 CD / Labor Records / 2012-01-31

Tracks: Club Bide-a-Wee; Jill's Apartment/Club Bide-a Wee
Artists: Eric Salzman/Michael Sahl

"... a brilliant amalgam of jazz, pop, blues and classical forms, cleverly developed and timed to make the satiric points stand out in the most...continue...
Personnel: Michael Sahl (piano, organ, keyboards); Cleve Pozar (drums, percussion).

Recording information: Radio Station WXXI-FM, Rochester, NY (1978).

Directors: Eric Salzman; Michael S...continue...

Jean-Claude Kuner: The Broken Promise: Blood Feud in Albania

1 CD / Labor Records / 2010-05-25

Tracks: Me Se Ta Hodha Sevdane [What is It About You I Love?]; Introducing Terezina and Stavri; Visit with Albanian Writer Ismail Kadaré; Over There by the Bend in the Road I Killed a Man [From Broken A...
Artists: Jean-Claude Kuner

Audio Mixer: Jean-Claude Kuner.

Recording information: Hörspiel & Produktion, Berlin.

Editor: Jean-Claude Kuner.

Photographer: Tirana.

Translator: Anthony B. Heric....continue...

Fabio Caramuru/Chico Pedro Baldanza: Bossa in the Shadows

1 CD / Labor Records / 2007-11-01

Artists: Fabio Caramuru/Chico Pedro Baldanza

Jemima James: Book Me Back in Your Dreams

CD / Labor Records / 2004-12-06

Tracks: Tracking Through the Snow; Emergency Call; Girl With the Long Hair, The; My Baby's Heart; I'd Rather Say Goodbye Right Here; You Weren't There (When Our Love Died); Walk All Over Georgia; I Got Him N...
Artists: Jemima James

Johnny Shines: Too Wet To Plow

1 CD / Labor Records / 2004-10-05

Tracks: Too Wet to Plow; Travelling Back Home; Hot Tomale; Moanin' the Blues; Red Sun; Winding Mind; You Better Turn Around; Wind Is Blowin', The; Trouble's All I See; 30 Days in Jail; Pay Day Woman; Epilog
Artists: Johnny Shines

Recorded in 1975.

Johnny Shines was far from predictable. Though he recorded his share of inspired electric dates, he had no problem turning around and delivering a stripped-down, all-acoustic ...continue...

Kent Cooper: The Blues & Other Songs, Vol. 2 *

CD / Labor Records / 2004-05-23

Tracks: Hard Dark Love (Deneen McEachern); Unloving Kind, The (George Higgs); Going Train Blues (Louisiana Red / Lefty Dizz); Black Sky el (Deneen McEachern); Selling Out (Sonny Terry); Tracking Through the ...
Artists: Kent Cooper

Kent Cooper: The Blues and Other Songs

CD / Labor Records / 2003-11-29

Tracks: Dirty Dirty Men (Deneen McEachern); Bye Bye Baby (Marc Glabo); First Degree (Louisiana Red); Tar River Flood (George Higgs); Sweetblood Call (Willie Murphy); Turkey Killer (Louisiana Red); Cold Wind ...
Artists: Kent Cooper

THE BLUES & OTHER SONGS showcases the songs of songwriter-lyricist Kent Cooper as interpreted by various artists, many of whom he toured with in the past.

Performers include: Kent Cooper, Louis...continue...

Aleksandër Peçi: Aleksandër Peçi: Albanian Lament

1 CD / Labor Records / 2001-01-01

Tracks: Alb-Postmortorium (Albanian Lament) for speaker, vocalist, soprano & electronics; Rimodelazh (Remodeling), for piano: Çast poetik (The Poetic Moment); Rimodelazh (Remodeling), for piano: Transpa...
Artists: Aleksandër Peçi

The Wedding Orchestra All-Stars/Yîldîz Ibrahimova: Thracian Rhapsody Vol. 2: The Wedding - The New Wedding Music of Bulgaria Revisited

1 CD / Labor Records / 2001-01-01

Artists: The Wedding Orchestra All-Stars/Yîldîz Ibrahimova

Performers include: Wedding Orchestra All-Stars, Yildiz Ibrahimova, Ivo Papasov, Ensemble Bisery, Ensemble Shumen, The Christo Yotsov Trio....continue...

Bisery Ensemble/Trîstenik Ensemble/Yîldîz Ibrahimova/Ivo Papas: Thracian Rhapsody: New Wedding Music of Bulgaria, Vol. 1

1 CD / Labor Records / 1999-01-01

Tracks: Wedding Eve; Hear the Drums; Clinging Vine; Rustle of White Silk; Eat, Drink and Be Merry; Bride's Trousseau, The; Chalga; Sweet Rakia (The Brandy Bottle With the Red Ribbon)
Artists: Bisery Ensemble/Trîstenik Ensemble/Yîldîz Ibrahimova/Ivo Papas

Personnel: Yildiz Ibrahimova (vocals, clarinet); Nedyalko Nedyalkov, Matiyo Dobrev (kaval); Philip Simeonov, Mladen Malakov, Ivo Papazov (clarinet); Aliyosha Shibilev (accordion); Alexander Raitchev (...continue...

Jack Walrath: In Montana

CD / Labor Records / 1994-01-01

Tracks: Lodgelian Mode; Ron's Blues; Wolf Gang of Arabia, A; What a Thing; Where Have I Been Here Before?; Grey and Blue; Blues in the Guts; Montana; Remembrance; Seper B; Nod or a Wink, A; At Home in Rome; ...
Artists: Jack Walrath

Personnel: Jack Walrath (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion); Chuck Florence (soprano & tenor saxophones, percussion); Bob Nell (piano, percussion); Kelly Roberty (bass, percussion); Jim Honaker (drums, ...continue...