Southland Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

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{{Infobox record label

| name = Southland Records

| image = SouthlandZulu.jpg

| image_alt = Label of Southland Record featuring Johnny Wiggs

| parent = Jazzology

| founded = {{start date|1953}}

| founder = Joe Mares

| genre = Jazz

| country = U.S.

| location = New Orleans, Louisiana

| website = {{URL|jazzology.com}}

}}

Southland Records is a record label in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States specializing in blues and jazz.

Southland Records was founded in 1953 by Joe Mares, a clarinetist and younger brother of trumpeter Paul Mares. He created the label after realizing many musicians in New Orleans were unsigned to record labels. Mares recorded George Lewis, Papa Celestin, Sharkey Bonano, Nick LaRocca, and Raymond Burke.{{cite web |title=Southland Records|url=http://medianola.org/discover/place/167|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816232850/http://medianola.org/discover/place/167|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 16, 2016|website=medianola.org|accessdate=28 June 2016}}

Bands practiced at the label's studio behind Mares Brothers Furs, a company established by his father, uncle, and grandfather. Sessions were recorded at concert halls and at TV and radio stations. In the 1960s, Mares sold the label to George Buck and it became part of the Jazzology Records group under the control of the George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation.{{cite web|last1=VanVorst|first1=Page|title=Deep into the Southland|url=https://www.jazzology.com/jazzbeat.php?id=68|website=www.jazzology.com|accessdate=28 June 2016}}