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Status
  
Defunct

Country of origin
  
U.S.

Date founded
  
1970

Defunct
  
1984

Genre
  
Various

Founder
  
Albert Grossman

Distributor
  
Rhino Entertainment

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Artists
  
Todd Rundgren, Foghat, Utopia, Paul Butterfield, Sparks

Albums
  
Something/Anything?, Fool for the City, Foghat Live, Hermit of Mink Hollow, Initiation

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Bearsville Records was founded in 1970 by Albert Grossman. Artists included Todd Rundgren, Elizabeth Barraclough, Foghat, Halfnelson/Sparks, Bobby Charles, Randy VanWarmer, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, Lazarus, Jesse Winchester, and NRBQ. The label closed in 1984, two years before Grossman's death.

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Bearsville's initial distributor was Ampex Records. From 1972 until its folding, the label was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in North America and most other territories. In the UK it was distributed by Warner until 1979, and then Island until 1981; its last few British releases were licensed to independent labels Avatar and Lamborghini. Rhino Records currently distributes the Bearsville catalog.

Many of the artists on the roster recorded at Grossman's Bearsville Studios.

Notable artists

  • Elizabeth Barraclough
  • Paul Butterfield
  • Jonathan Cain
  • Felix Cavaliere
  • Bobby Charles
  • The dB's
  • Foghat
  • Jesse Frederick
  • Nick Jameson
  • Norma Jean Wright
  • Lazarus
  • Liar
  • Willie Mitchell
  • NRBQ
  • Roger Powell
  • Todd Rundgren
  • Utopia
  • Randy Vanwarmer
  • Jesse Winchester
  • Sparks
  • 1970

  • The American Dream - The American Dream
  • Gil Evans - Gil Evans
  • Great Speckled Bird - Great Speckled Bird
  • Jesse Winchester - Jesse Winchester
  • Todd Rundgren - Runt
  • 1971

  • Jericho - Jericho
  • Todd Rundgren - Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
  • Jesse Frederick - Jesse Frederick
  • Lazarus - Lazarus
  • 1972

  • Sparks - Half Nelson
  • Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
  • Hungry Chuck - Hungry Chuck
  • Foghat - Foghat
  • Jesse Winchester - Third Down, 110 to Go
  • Bobby Charles - Bobby Charles
  • Paul Butterfield - Better Days
  • 1973

  • Sparks - A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
  • Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
  • Lazarus - A Fool's Paradise
  • Foghat - Foghat (Rock & Roll)
  • Jean Yves Labat - M. Frog
  • Paul Butterfield - It All Comes Back
  • Foghat - Energized
  • 1974

  • Todd Rundgren - Todd
  • Jesse Winchester - Learn to Love it
  • Todd Rundgren - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
  • Felix Cavaliere - Felix Cavaliere
  • Foghat - Rock and Roll Outlaws
  • 1975

  • Todd Rundgren - Initiation
  • Felix Cavaliere - Destiny
  • Foghat - Fool For the City
  • Utopia - Another Live
  • Paul Butterfield - Put It In Your Ear
  • 1976

  • Todd Rundgren - Faithful
  • Jesse Winchester - Let the Rough Side Drag
  • Foghat - Night Shift
  • 1977

  • Utopia - RA
  • Tony Wilson - I Like Your Style
  • Jesse Winchester - Nothing But a Breeze
  • Jonathan Cain Band - Windy City Breakdown
  • Utopia - Oops! Wrong Planet
  • Foghat - Foghat Live
  • Nick Jameson - Already Free
  • 1978

  • Foghat - Stone Blue
  • Jesse Winchester - A Touch on the Rainy Side
  • Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
  • Elizabeth Barraclough - Elizabeth Barraclough
  • Liar - Set the World on Fire
  • Norma Jean Wright - Norma Jean
  • Todd Rundgren - Back to the Bars
  • 1979

  • Tony Wilson - Catch One
  • Randy Vanwarmer - Warmer
  • Elizabeth Barraclough - Hi!
  • Foghat - Boogie Motel
  • Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
  • 1980

  • Roger Powell - Air Pocket
  • Kenny Doss - Movin'on A Feeling
  • Randy Vanwarmer - Terraform
  • Foghat - Tight Shoes
  • Pam Windo and the Shades - It
  • Brian Briggs - Brian Damage
  • Utopia - Deface the Music
  • 1981

  • Paul Butterfield - North-South
  • Johnny Average Band - Some People
  • Todd Rundgren - Healing
  • Jesse Winchester - Talk Memphis
  • Donald O'Connor - Come Alive
  • Willie Mitchell - Listen Dance
  • Randy Vanwarmer - Beat of Love
  • Foghat - Girls to Chat and Boys to Bounce
  • 1982

  • Brian Briggs - Combat Zone
  • Utopia - Swing To The Right
  • Foghat - In The Mood for Something Rude
  • Todd Rundgren - The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
  • 1983

  • Nicole Wills - Tell Me
  • Randy Vanwarmer - The Things That You Dream
  • NRBQ - Grooves in Orbit
  • Foghat - Zig-Zag Walk
  • 1984

  • Human Body - Make You Shake It
  • Freida Parton - Two-Faced
  • The dB's - Like This
  • References

    Bearsville Records Wikipedia