About
Fat Possum Records is a label started in 1991 by [a731065] for the express purpose recording of R.L. Burnside. It later became an effort to find the last original bluesmen and record them before they died. Most of the artists were difficult to work with; they had talent and lived the blues, but either had little aspiration for success, encountered personality conflicts with management, or had a limited number of songs. Most of them had a sound that was too raw for success in the current market of of big-label blues. Recently the label has expanded their catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands.
Sub-labels
The Spaceman Reissue Program
Curated by [a195231] and started in April 2021 with the release of Lazer Guided Melodies.
Fat Possum Records Special Products Division
All releases are from [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/384120-The-George-Mitchell-Collection]The George Mitchell Collection[/url] of field recordings and photographs.
Big Legal Mess Records
Independent American record label based in Oxford, Mississippi, distributed by [l=Fat Possum Records]. Also see [l=Big Legal Mess Records, LLC]. LC 21156
Worried Blues
A series of 10 albums featuring rare and previously out-of-print recordings developed in collaboration with Amazon Originals.
Contact Label
Fat Possum Records PO Box 1923, Oxford, MS 38655 Phone: 662-234-2828 Fax: 662-234-2899
Fat Possum Records Artist Roster
Top 100 Fat Possum Records Releases
