Cobblestone Records

[Roburt]

Are there any experts on Cobblestone Records around ?

I know there was lots of non-soul on this Buddah label but there's also quite a bit of decent soul from known & little known artists.

Some of their 45's also seem to be rare, which is strange with it being run by such a big outfit as Buddah Records.

It had a regular release policy for around 12+ months from April 68 and then seemed to slow right down till it re-emerged in 72.

The guy who ran it (Joe Fields) had a jazz background & had worked @ Verve ahead of this label being founded.  He ensured jazz stuff was released on Cobblestone too. After Cobblestone ended, he returned to the jazz world. It seems that when he started his Onyx & Muse labels, he took tracks which had been destined to be Cobblestone releases with him & released them on those 2 labels (one such outfit involved being the Visitors).     

Can't find much of anything about the label in 1960's editions of Billboard mag. I'd really like to know a bit more about the label & its artists.

Edited October 9, 2023 by Roburt

[Roburt]

The Visitors, who went from Cobblestone to Muse ... jazz guys ... 

 

[Hometownmusic]

I'm a fan but definitely not an expert (especially on the rare soul 45s). Fields apparently re-released a lot of the jazz LPs on Muse that had already been released on Cobblestone (usually with different [and worse] cover art).