Independent record labels and producers

From 1946 to 1958 the American music business was turned upside down by a group of mavericks who knew little about music but were fast learners about business. What they discovered was an expanding “market” of clubs and bars in each of which stood a jukebox that needed stocking with an ever-changing stack of 78-rpm records. These records had to have either a beat heavy enough to cut through the raucous clamour of a bar...