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Founded
  
1985

Albums
  
Hot Animal Machine, Little, Is the Actor Happy?, Wishing Like a Mountain, Life Time

Texas hotel records 1989 mini documentary news clip


Texas Hotel Records was an independent record label based in Santa Monica, California, which released records by singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, Henry Rollins and the Rollins Band from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The label started as a record store and morphed into a record label.

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The label was voted Hot Record Label of the year by Rolling Stone Magazine in 1989 when it was pursuing the project of releasing a Michael Stipe solo album and when there as a huge buzz around Texas Hotel band Poi Dog Pondering. The Stipe project never took shape and Poi Dog Pondering eventually signed to Columbia Records but never made it big. Texas Hotel Records closed in 1996.

Releases

  • Henry Rollins—Hot Animal Machine (1986)
  • Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters—Drive by Shooting (1987)
  • Henry Rollins—Big Ugly Mouth (1987)
  • Downy Mildew—Broomtree (1987)
  • Rollins Band—Life Time (1988)
  • Rollins Band—Do It (1988)
  • Downy Mildew—Mincing Steps (1988)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Poi Dog Pondering EP (1988)
  • Henry Rollins—Sweatbox (1989)
  • Rollins Band—Hard Volume (1989)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Living with the Dreaming Body (1989)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Circle Around the Sun (1989)
  • Baby Flamehead — Life Sandwich (1990)
  • Vic Chesnutt—Little (1990)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Big Beautiful Spoon (1990)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Wishing like a Mountain and Thinking like the Sea (1990)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Everybody's Trying (1990)
  • Poi Dog Pondering—Fruitless (The Breath of Life Leaves Her...) (1990)
  • Vic Chesnutt—West of Rome (1991)
  • Downy Mildew—An Oncoming Train (1992)
  • Vic Chesnutt—Drunk (1993)
  • Vic Chesnutt—Is the Actor Happy? (1995)

    • References

    Texas Hotel Records Wikipedia
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