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| Craft Recordings | |
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| Parent company | Concord |
| Founded | April 24, 2017 |
| Status | Reissue label |
| Distributor(s) | Universal Music Group |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Official website | craftrecordings |
Craft Recordings is a record label owned by Concord. Like UMe, Legacy Recordings and Rhino Entertainment, Craft specialized in reissues of Concord's back catalog. The imprint was founded in 2017, along with an online store by the same name offering a curated selection of deluxe CD and vinyl box sets, stand-alone LPs, and legacy label and artist merchandise.[1] Its first release was a deluxe vinyl edition of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane’s Complete 1957 Recordings.[2] Sig Sigworth is the president of Craft Recordings.
Craft is home to numerous legacy labels including Contemporary, Fania, Fantasy, HighTone, Independiente, Milestone, Musart, Notro, Pablo, Panart Records, Prestige Records, Riverside, SLG, Specialty Records, Stax, Sugar Hill, Takoma, Telarc, Vanguard, Vee Jay, Victory and Wind-Up.[3] Craft is also the releasing arm for catalog titles from Concord's frontline labels, including Concord Records, Fearless Records and Rounder Records.
Craft has reissued albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Vince Guaraldi, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, John Coltrane, R.E.M., Evanescence, The Offspring, Nine Inch Nails, and others. It has not only reissued material from catalog Concord artists, but also released rare material from them.[citation needed]
On June 26, 2019, Craft digitally reissued many albums of the legendary Stax soul label. Craft has also reissued, on vinyl, Stax's two-LP compilation from 1969, Soul Explosion, which compiled the label's biggest hits of that time onto the first disc, coupled with rare, hard-to-find tracks on the second.[4] In August 2019, the Craft Latino imprint announced that it would re-release several Fania Records albums by Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, and Willie Colón.[5]
- ^ Recordings, Craft (2017). "Craft Recordings". craftrecordings.com. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ Worldwide, Music Business (24 April 2017). "CONCORD LAUNCHES CRAFT RECORDINGS AS ITS OFFICIAL REISSUE LABEL". Music Business Worldwide. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Concord Acquires Legendary Punk Label Victory Records". Billboard. 30 September 2019.
- ^ Stax, Summer of (26 June 2019). "Summer of Stax: Reissues Galore from the Legendary Memphis Label's Vault". thestranger.com. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ "Craft Recordings announces reissues of Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, and Willie Colón albums". 14 August 2019.