Blues Bureau is a member of Mike Varney's Shrapnel Label Group, which also includes Shrapnel Records, another guitar oriented label which features shred guitar, hard rock, metal and progressive metal, and Tone Center Records, a jazz oriented label featuring "fusion guitar" as well as a number of jazz tributes.
He maintains a strong friendship with record producer Mike Varney.
After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert (a singer) for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney.
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The band recorded their self-titled debut album on Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records in 1989, in which Couch wrote the majority of the songs.
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Phantom Blue were the only females to have recorded an album for Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records, having sold their contract to Geffen Records in 1991.
Shortly after, Travers signed a deal with American-based Blues Bureau International Records, a company formed by noted producer Mike Varney.
It was there that he met Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records, who showed interest in the band after hearing their demo.
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