Initially an independent label founded 1968 in Beverly Hills, California, by former main label executives Bob Krasnow (Kama Sutra), Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham (both A&M). Up to 1970 handeling their own distribution, but after that using a number of bigger companies for the task. Checking the label's original discography today you do get the impression of a typically independent edition. Early, then not yet in US publically embraced, trials from Captain Beefheart, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Aynsley Dunbar together with late stuff by Ike & Tina Turner, Love, Cass Elliot and John Mayall, but also comedy and odd black blues. I guess collectors of the label sit on a vast variety of rare tracks, where of many exist only on one particular album. I'm not one of those, so for me this sampler is so far the only taster of its range. Most of all I hear a blues record, divided between black and white, a couple of the tracks - as from Fred McDowell and Nathan Beauregard - traditional and down-to-earth. But also good and/or odd pop/rock from Love, Ike & Tina Turner and others, all concluded by Bossa Rio's latin cover of Beatles "Blackbird". Audio shifts a little, but most of it a-ok. My only demour would be the compiling is so variated it's impossible to listen through in a coherent mood, but taking each track by iself it's almost all good. And maybe it's just me, but I find the semi-nude thumbsucker on sleeve quite sexy. 1995 2xCD compilation "All Day Thumbsucker Revisited - The History Of Blue Thumb Records" (BTD-2-7002) came with thirtytwo tracks, also issued as a 3xLP set (BT-3-7002). Premiere US vinyl had label as shown here, glossy cover with band presentations on rear and picture inner with further notes. (YZÄ*) (SÄM*)
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