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Our week at Americana Music Association Conference & Festival

 in Fundamental Musings, Fundamental Tracks

September 16th through the 20th, Fundamental Records was back at the Americana Music Association annual conference, fest and awards ceremony.

Where else can you experience great artists like Loretta Lynn, Billy Joe Shaver, Jackson Browne, Buddy Miller, Lee Ann Womak, Allison Moorer and everybody in between?  Only at AMA.

Wednesday was the stellar awards show, which will be aired Nov. 22 on PBS.  The Ryman Auditorium, dubbed “Mother Church” since it was the site of the original Grand Ole Oprey, was in fine form as was the house band led by multifaceted Buddy Miller.

First, Last & Everything In Between

David Barrett’s First, Last & Everything In Between, interview

 in Fundamental Tracks

We recently interviewed David Barrett, world class composer of Themes like “One Shining Moment” from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, Pro Golf, the Olympics and more.  He is also an accomplished solo artist – and his latest album, “First, Last & Everything In Between,” recently was released this year.  Fundamental Tracks delves into this fine release. FT:  You called this…

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The Record Low

Great Bands We Never Signed…

 in Fundamental Musings

You’ve seen them live. You’ve had dinner with them. You really feel like you are clicking with them. Then they spurn you. If it sounds like the dating process, it’s not. It’s courting an artist to sign to your label. Granted, with the digital age in full swing, the aging Phoenix of the massive major label music industry has crumbled…

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Just when you think it’s dead…

 in New News

…it comes back. Here’s a new article from Paste Magazine on a Fundamental/Red Records band from Philly – Executive Slacks. It mentions Richard Jordan, as if he needs more street cred… “When success eludes a band, more often than not its missing component is easily detected. Amidst the thousands of unoriginal acts and the handful of successful ones, a few,…

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Richard Jordan Fundamental Records

“THE ORIGINS OF FUNDAMENTALISM”

 in History of Fundamental

The FUNDAMENTAL Label originated from a troubled adolescence. Because I quit high school and had a difficult family life I could not take a real job. Instead, me, my cousin Brice and a friend – Jacob Bayer – began selling phonograph records at the numerous flea and farmer’s markets that dotted eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. This transpired during…

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Fundamental Records Beginning

In the Beginning, God created Fundamental…

 in History of Fundamental

Sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, Quaaludes, LSD and Mescaline, the mafia, Morris Levy, Stiffed, stolen LPs and prog rock imports, Flipper, Butthole Surfers, Roky Erickson, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Eugene Chadbourne, Shockabilly, Jimmy Carl Black, Executive Slacks, Bunnydrums, Ruin, Stickmen, Bill Laswell, Philly punk, Naked Prey, Chip Kinman, Blackbird, Savage Republic, Red Temple Spirits, Shock Therapy, Dirtball, Used Carlotta, Six…

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Fundamental Records Colorblind

Colorblind James Experience

 in Fundamental Musings

I love history – moreso, I enjoy the lessons of history. They can be summed up in one sentence: The same things seem to happen over and over again, and we just can’t seem to learn. “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David…

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