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Bearsville Records

Founded by Albert Grossman, home to Todd Rundgren and Foghat.

Albert Grossman launched Bearsville Records in 1970. The label shut down in 1984, two years before Grossman died. His widow, Sally Grossman, revived it in 2010 and ran it until her death in March 2021 at age 81.

Quick Facts

Founded
1970
Founder
Albert Grossman
Defunct
1984
Distributor
Rhino Records
Country
U.S.

Facts from the source article.

Discography

Other early releases included Jericho by Jericho, Todd Rundgren's Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, and Jesse Frederick by Jesse Frederick, which was the first album released under Warner Bros. distribution and used a Bearsville label on the LP while being a Bearsville/Reprise release. Further albums included Lazarus by Lazarus, Sparks' Half Nelson, Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything?, Hungry Chuck by Hungry Chuck, Foghat by Foghat, Jesse Winchester's Third Down, 110 to Go, Bobby Charles by Bobby Charles, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, Sparks' A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing, Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star, Lazarus' A Fool's Paradise, Foghat's Foghat (Rock & Roll), Jean Yves Labat's M. Frog, Paul Butterfield's It All Comes Back, and the unreleased two-record set Todd Rundgren's Rack Job.

Later releases included Foghat's Energized (the first Bearsville release using its own 6000 catalog number sequence), Todd Rundgren's Todd, Jesse Winchester's Learn to Love it, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Felix Cavaliere's Felix Cavaliere, Foghat's Rock and Roll Outlaws, Todd Rundgren's Initiation, Felix Cavaliere's Destiny, Foghat's Fool For the City, Paul Butterfield's Put It In Your Ear, Utopia's Another Live, Foghat's Night Shift, Todd Rundgren's Faithful, Jesse Winchester's Let the Rough Side Drag, Utopia's RA, Tony Wilson's I Like Your Style, Jesse Winchester's Nothing But a Breeze, the Jonathan Cain Band's Windy City Breakdown, Utopia's Oops!

Wrong Planet, Foghat's Foghat Live, Nick Jameson's Already Free, Foghat's Stone Blue, a reissue of Foghat's Fool For The City, Jesse Winchester's A Touch on the Rainy Side, Todd Rundgren's Hermit of Mink Hollow, Elizabeth Barraclough's Elizabeth Barraclough, Liar's Set the World on Fire, Norma Jean Wright's Norma Jean, Todd Rundgren's Back to the Bars, Tony Wilson's Catch One, and Randy Vanwarmer's Warmer.

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