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3 unusual facts about Oblivion Records


Oblivion Records

Never a deep hotbed of traditional blues (Chicago, Illinois was the Northern U.S. center of the music), nevertheless New York had a reliable output over the postwar years by such artists as Elmore James, Wilbert Harrison, and Buster Brown.

The company was formed based on a casual conversation between Long Island, New York record store owner, musician, and blues scholar Tom Pomposello, and college student and amateur recording engineer Fred Seibert, when Pomposello was musing about the best way to record and release his music.

Joe Lee Wilson is a mainstream jazz vocalist who was making his name in Manhattan’s loft scene of the 1970s.



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