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Capricorn Records

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Capricorn Records was an independent record label which was founded by Phil Walden, Alan Walden and Frank Fenter in 1969 in Macon, Georgia. [1]

57 relations: Alan Walden, Alex Taylor (musician), Alternative rock, Athens, Georgia, Atlantic Records, Bankruptcy, Blues, Box set, Cake (band), Captain Beyond, Cobra Records, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Country music, Cowboy (band), Delbert McClinton, Dixie Dregs, Dobie Gray, Elvin Bishop, Frank Fenter, Grinderswitch, Hydra (band), James Montgomery (singer), Jazz fusion, Jewel Records (Shreveport record label), Jonathan Edwards (musician), Kenny Chesney, Kitty Wells, List of record labels, Luther Williams Field, Macon Music, Mercury Records, Nashville, Tennessee, Outlaws (band), Phil Walden, PolyGram, Rabbitt, Record label, RED Distribution, Rhythm and blues, Sea Level (band), Sony Music, Soul music, Southern rock, Stillwater (band), The Allman Brothers Band, The Island Def Jam Music Group, The Marshall Tucker Band, Travis Wammack, Volcano Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records, ..., Warner Music Group, Wet Willie, White Witch (band), Widespread Panic, Zomba Group of Companies, 1979 in music, 311 (band). Expand index (7 more) »

Alan Walden

Alan Walden (born May 23, 1943) is an American manager, publisher, booking agent, and promoter.

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Alex Taylor (musician)

Alexander "Alex" Taylor (February 28, 1947 – March 12, 1993) was an American singer.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and American college town in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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Cake (band)

Cake (stylized CAKE) is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California, consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Daniel McCallum and drummer Todd Roper.

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Captain Beyond

Captain Beyond is an American/British rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971.

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Cobra Records

Cobra Records (together with its Artistic subsidiary) was an independent record label that operated from 1956–1959.

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Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit

Col.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cowboy (band)

Cowboy was an American country rock and southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969.

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Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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Dixie Dregs

The Dixie Dregs are an American band formed in the 1970s.

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Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Frank Fenter

Frank Fenter (February 25, 1936 - July 21, 1983) was a music industry executive.

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Grinderswitch

Grinderswitch was an American southern rock band.

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Hydra (band)

Hydra is an American Southern rock band founded in the late 1960s by Spencer Kirkpatrick (guitar), Wayne Bruce (vocals and guitar), and Steve Pace (drums).

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James Montgomery (singer)

James Montgomery (born May 12, 1949) is an American blues musician, best known as the lead singer, blues harp player, frontman, and bandleader of The James Montgomery Blues Band (a.k.a. The James Montgomery Band).

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jewel Records (Shreveport record label)

Jewel Records was an American independent record label, founded in 1963 by Stan Lewis and based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Jonathan Edwards (musician)

Jonathan Edwards (born July 28, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his 1971 hit single "Sunshine".

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Kenny Chesney

Kenneth Arnold Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Kitty Wells

Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Luther Williams Field

Luther Williams Field is a baseball stadium in Macon, Georgia.

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Macon Music

The Macon Music were a short-lived minor league baseball team, based in Macon, Georgia.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Outlaws (band)

The Outlaws are an American southern rock/country rock band best known for their 1975 hit "There Goes Another Love Song" and extended guitar jam "Green Grass and High Tides" from their 1975 debut album, plus their 1980 cover of the Stan Jones classic "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky".

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Phil Walden

Phil Walden (January 11, 1940 – April 22, 2006) was co-founder of the Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records with Alan Walden (his younger brother) and a close friend, former Atlantic Records executive Frank Fenter.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Rabbitt

Rabbitt were a South African rock band formed in 1972, evolving from a band called The Conglomeration, consisting of members Trevor Rabin, Duncan Faure, Ronnie Robot, and Neil Cloud.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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RED Distribution

RED Distribution, LLC (Relativity Entertainment Distribution) is a Sony Music-owned sales and marketing division that merged under The Orchard in 2017.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Sea Level (band)

Sea Level was an American jazz fusion band from Macon, Georgia that mixed jazz, blues and rock and existed between 1976 and 1981.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Southern rock

Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana.

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Stillwater (band)

Stillwater was an American band, based in Warner Robins, Georgia, that played Southern rock and was active from 1973 to '84.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Island Def Jam Music Group

The Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJMG) was an American record label group formed in 1998 by combining the operations of 14+ record labels including Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Mercury Records.

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The Marshall Tucker Band

The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Travis Wammack

Travis Wammack (born November 1946 in Walnut, Mississippi) is an American rock and roll guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Volcano Entertainment

Volcano Entertainment (sometimes referred to as Volcano Records) is an American all-round music record label founded in 1996 which released albums by Tool, 311, Size 14, Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic (the latter two were former Scotti Bros. Records artists and the only artists retained from the label).

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Wet Willie

Wet Willie is an American band from Mobile, Alabama, U.S. They are best known for their hit "Keep On Smilin'," which reached No.

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White Witch (band)

White Witch was a hard rock band from Tampa, Florida that made two albums for Capricorn Records in the early 1970s.

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Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia.

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Zomba Group of Companies

The Zomba Group of Companies (sometimes referred to as Zomba Music Group or just Zomba Group) was a music group and division which was owned by and operated under Sony Music Entertainment.

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1979 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.

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311 (band)

311 (pronounced "three-eleven") is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_Records

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