Tomato Records

{{Infobox record label

| name = Tomato Records

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| founded = {{start date|1977|5}}

| founder = Kevin Eggers

| distributor = Self-distributed

| genre = Various

| country = United States

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The Tomato Music Co. Ltd., also known as Tomato Records, is an American independent record label founded in New York City in 1977 by music manager Kevin Eggers.{{sfnp |Billboard Magazine|1977}} It was a successor to his previous record labels Utopia and Poppy,{{sfnp |Billboard Magazine|1977}}{{sfnp |Newton|2001}} the label was self-distributed, and has released albums by influential artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lead Belly, Chris Smither, Dave Brubeck, Nina Simone, Annette Peacock, Harry Partch, John Cage, Philip Glass, Merle Haggard and Albert King. Rhino Records handled the distribution of Tomato Records' catalogue in the 1990s, before the label closed.{{sfnp|Komara|2006}} It was revived in 2002.{{sfnp |Newton|2001}}

Notes

External links

[http://www.myspace.com/tomatorecordsmusic Official Tomato Records MySpace]

Sources

{{cite news

|title=Indie Switch for Tomato

|work=Billboard Magazine

|location=New York

|date=21 May 1977

|accessdate=23 February 2019

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCMEAAAAMBAJ&q=Giorgio+Gomelsky+Utopia+Records&pg=PT162

|ref={{sfnref|Billboard Magazine|1977}}

}}

{{cite book

|last=Komara

|first=Edward M.

|date= 2006

|title= Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, Index

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TURWt5WuQfEC&q=tomato+records+rhino+records+kevin+eggers&pg=PA994

|location=New York

|publisher=Routledge

|page= 994

|isbn=9780415927017

}}

{{cite web

|url=http://musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=5187

|title=Tomato Records, back again

|last=Newton

|first=Jon

|date=29 January 2001

|website=MusicDish

|publisher=MusicDish LLC

|access-date=23 February 2019

}}

Category:American independent record labels

Category:American jazz record labels