Capricorn Records C/D/S/D

the allman brothers band (love, naturally)
livingston taylor (snooze)
cowboy (love beyond measure)
alex taylor (drunken snooze)
wet willie (best when drunk)
jonathan edwards (snoozy, but he had his moments)
maxayn (funky!)
eric quincy tate (the cover of his album was a can of pabst with his name on it. say no more!)
captain beyond (all time best. bobby caldwell is my lord and savior.)
martin mull (love)
white witch (i'm a fan!)
marshall tucker band (saw them in 1981. boogie woogie.)
eddie henderson (star child!)
duke williams & the extremes (not memorable)
james montgomery band (fan fave. workmanlike.)
dickey betts (dickey!)
hydra (hot!)
elvin bishop (can live without, to be honest.)
grinderswitch (black oak's even more evil cousin)
kenny o'dell (not really worth it)
fallenrock ( i still own a fallenrock album. that's all i'll say)
bonnie bramlett (she is what she is. loved her on Roseanne!)
larry henley ( i stand by my love for his one album on Capricorn)
dobie gray (kinda snoozy to be honest)
travis wammack (hicksville)
marcia waldorf (not great!)
t. talton, b. stewart & j. sandlin (love!)
billy joe shaver (storyteller)
easy street (kinda new wave!)
rabbitt (big fan. south african. future member of Yes.)
sea level (i can hang with...)
philharmonics (philly disco!)
fringe benefits (bar rock)
stillwater (they didn't run deep...)
dixie dregs (cracker noodles)
black oak (like black oak arkansas only more concise)
garfield (still own this album too. i'll get back to you...)
delbert mcclinton (saw him open for lonnie mack once)
mike pinera (mike has a fan in me. i like blues image. i like the iron butterfly albums he's on. i love ramatam. and i love the Isla album on Capricorn.)
eddie hinton (kinda no memory of the album i had. but i played it.)
billy thorpe (child of the sun)

https://i.discogs.com/SdZdreJE8CtQCk39WnoklVjI0o569Js1p1COBgu0LbM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:397/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9MLTMxNTcy/LTE2NDc4MTcyNTct/NzA2OS5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/VeK3o63Xaf-iLDgxhgJkZDrKdwkRyi9dqGYSp56SRig/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:614/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9MLTMxNTcy/LTE2NDE0Mzk2Mzct/NDQ0NS5qcGVn.jpeg

American record label founded by Phil Walden, Alan Walden, and Frank Fenter.

First Incarnation 1969-1979
The first incarnation lasted from 1969 until 1979 when the company went out of business. During this period, distribution was handled by Atlantic Records, then Warner Bros and finally PhonoDisc (from 1977). Phonodisc releases can be identified by a CPN catalogue number prefix on many of them.

In the UK and Europe Capricorn was distributed by Polydor from June 1974.

Second Incarnation 1991-2000
The Waldens reformed the label for a second incarnation in the early 90s. The label was the home to such acts as 311 and Cake before shutting down again in 2000. Distribution during the second incarnation was handled by Warner Bros., then RED Distribution and finally back to PolyGram.

May 7, 1996--Mercury Records formed a joint venture with Capricorn Records to market, promote, manufacture and distribute records.

After Capricorn
In December of 2000, Phil Walden sold the label's assets to Volcano. Because the Waldens had agreed not to use the Capricorn name for at least 5 years, they formed Velocette Records.

I has about to bring up the he '90s Capricorn--Ian Moore and 311 represent!

haha, i have no idea about the latter-day label stuff. just that initial 10 year stretch.

Two Roseanne people in that list! But only one of them punched out Elvis Costello.

Those Eddie Henderson records (which are Mwandishi records in disguise) are amazing.

elvin bishop (can live without, to be honest.)

Personally I would give Ol' El' the "best when drunk" rating, but I'm a fan, see my DN I haven't changed in years.

"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" is one of those all-time songs that can immediately transport me back to 10-year-old me.

that's like that eagles song though. nobody knows who does it! it could kinda be anyone. i forget who it is when i hear it.

(i've seen that eagles song pop up on ilm more than once in the last week or two.)

i mean if you told someone it was firefall or pablo cruise or ambrosia they would totally believe you.

I inherited an Eric Quincy Tate LP from my grandpa, not this one though, the one after it. I didn't know until today that Eric Quincy Tate is the name of the band, not a person. tbh the LP I've got I don't like v much.

I first learned about Capricorn through Widespread Panic, who were the first band signed to the 1990s incarnation. I was in love with their album, Everyday, when it came out, but never became a big fan despite that. Revisited it this year for the first time in decades and it holds up, I think. That's a young Angelina Jolie on the album cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjue7VYsKDU

They also had Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, who definitely fit in with my early Phish and Bela Fleck years, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuEXN6GfrE

i only know that Capricorn EQT album. and i don't remember it well. that list i made above is pretty old. i have never seen a copy of the first Eric Quincy Tate album. its on Cotillion. and it features the only song i know of that has the word "bream" in the title. as in the fish. and i've never heard that third album either. which came out here on a small Georgia label. GRC. which i think was some sorta tax-scam label. owned by a guy who owned a slew of fly by night record labels.

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Michael George Thevis (February 25, 1932 – November 20, 2013) was an American millionaire businessman, pornographer and convicted murderer. After escaping from prison on April 28, 1978, he was put on the FBI Most Wanted List.
In the early seventies, Michael Thevis had a problem. He discovered that he was under investigation from the FBI. Not wanting to follow in the footsteps of Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, who were brought down by federal investigations, Michael Thevis began looking for legitimate enterprises.
Casting around looking for a legitimate business, Michael Thevis hit upon the idea of forming not one, but three record labels. This included GRC, Aware and Hotlanta. These labels would become part of A Michael Thevis Enterprise. Soon, there was a new addition to Michael Thevis’ musical empire, the The Sound Pit in Atlanta.
GRC and the rest of Michael Thevis’ musical empire all came crashing down in late 1975. Michael Thevis’ attempt to build a legitimate business empire had failed. Soon, it emerged that Michael Thevis’ musical empire was always doomed to failure. It had been for three years, ever since the FBI starting investigating his business activities.
Prior to entering prison, Thevis and attorney Joel Katz (one of the nation's most powerful entertainment lawyers) sold GRC to Thevis' secretary Laverne Bowden. The label's copyrights and publishing, since 1981, have been owned by Atlanta publishing firm Ginn Music Group.

yep my copy is on GRC. doesn't look like it's worth anything, oh well

I never knew about Thevis. GRC was the label Sammy Johns' "Chevy Van" was on. I would probably buy a copy of Moog Fluting by The Ebony Godfather just based on the title, but I've never seen one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETV-57Et-SU