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Earwig Music Company is an American blues and jazz independent record label, founded October 1978 in Chicago by Michael Frank.〔Hoffman 2006, p. 294〕〔Penchansky 1979〕 Before setting up his label Michael Frank from 1975 until 1977 had been - like Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records and Jim O'Neal of ''Living Blues'' magazine - employed in Bob Koester's Chicagoan 'Jazz Record Mart'.〔Vabres 1995, p. 7〕 Since its foundation Earwig Music has issued sixty-six albums, of which fifty-one were produced by its CEO, Frank, among them the last recordings of Louis Myers, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, and early Howlin’ Wolf Band's guitarist Willie Johnson. Other artists among the label's roster were blues musicians:〔 The Jelly Roll Kings (with Frank Frost), Honeyboy Edwards, Johnny Drummer, Big Jack Johnson, Jimmy Dawkins, Louisiana Red, Willie Kent, H-Bomb Ferguson, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Jim Brewer, Homesick James, John Primer, Lil' Ed Williams, Lester Davenport, Kansas City Red, and Liz Mandeville; jazz musicians: Carl Arter and Tiny Irvin, a gospel group; the Gospel Trumpets, and renowned folk storytellers: Jackie Torrence, Alice McGill, Bobby Norfolk and Laura Simms. Those storytellers' Earwig recordings won American Library Association Parents′ Choice, and NAIRD Awards. In 1998, Johnny ″Yard Dog″ Jones won a W.C. Handy Award – Best New Artist – for his Earwig album, ''Ain't Gonna Worry''. In 2008, Frank received the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive Award - category "Manager".〔() 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earwig Music Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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