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Sundazed Music CD and vinyl reissue home of amp-melting rock 'n' roll, reverb-drenched surf guitar,swivel-hipped rockabilly, mindbending psychedelic sounds, string-popping country music, ultra-suave jazz, fuzz-damaged garage rock and chart-topping pop in the known universe. About Us! Bob Irwin got into the CD reissue business while that business was in its infancy. Along the way, he not only explored the field...he has nearly single-handedly defined it. By the mid-'80s, the major labels were churning out painful-sounding CD issues of their best- selling vinyl titles. Rhino had matured from its Wildman Fischer origins and was well on its way to becoming the home of Top40-centric pop reissues. Bob Irwin was manager and buyer for a chain of music retailers in upstate New York. His stock, while soundly rooted in chart product and deep catalog classics, also reflected his musical roots (Bob was and remains a topnotch guitarist) and his passion for record collecting. The stores Bob managed quickly earned a reputation for having most everything anyone wanted and then some, and the eclectic and interesting inventory attracted a similarly eclectic and interesting customer base. It was then that Bob realized just how much certain kinds of music - music that had once been available, music that people remembered, music that customers wanted to own - had fallen through the cracks of the record business. You could easily find the big hits, the best-selling artists, the top-40 oldies, the deep blues and classical standards...what was missing were pop and rock's more interesting evolutionary branches: the nether reaches of the pop charts, garage, psychedelia and rockabilly. Acting on an educated hunch that he couldn't possibly be alone in his all-over-the-map musical tastes, Bob began Sundazed Music. Shaped by his own tastes and interests and tempered by the collective unfulfilled wants of his customers, Bob started making CD's the way he'd always wanted to hear them: clean and complete. Sparked by the very same impulse that compels us to make tapes of interesting things for our friends, Sundazed began collecting critical accolades - and loyal customers - right out of the chute. Sundazed's success comes from more than a happy collision of need and product. The company absolutely thrives on attention to detail, from meticulous tape research, to no-excuses mastering and manufacturing, to exhaustive and engaging liner notes and graphically-innovative design. And uniting all of that is Sundazed's secret weapon: fun. "The music we deal with was made to be fun," claims Irwin. "Its creators wanted their audience to laugh, dance, scream, jump around, blast at ear-splitting volume and generally annoy adults. We try to capture and preserve as much of that fun as we possibly can, while maybe adding some extra fun of our own in the process." That fun, that music, and that high-quality product soon came to the attention of the folks at Sony Music, whose Legacy division had just been formed to lend some legitimacy and structure to their reissue program. Legacy reached out to contact Bob Irwin, offering him the position of producer and consultant. Bob has become an indispensable asset to that label, responsible for just about every major rock reissue from the Legacy imprint. His work includes titles from the Byrds, Janis Joplin, Santana, Moby Grape, Carole King, Bob Wills, George Jones, John Denver, and an impressive roster of other acts that would take the allotted space of this article just to detail. Bob Irwin also moonlights for Arista Records, where he's polished up the Patti Smith catalog, as well as titles by the Box Tops, Delphonics, Lee Dorsey, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. Now well into it's second decade, Sundazed Music continues to thrive in what analysts continue to call a "down" music market. The Sundazed physical plant: mixing and mastering studios, graphic design, sales and publicity, bookkeeping and shipping - long ago outgrew their two-room origins, now occupying two complete office buildings. The Sundazed distribution network is the envy of the music industry, aggressively and intelligently placing Sundazed releases in prime locations around the globe. And the Sundazed catalog continues to branch out in intriguing directions - offering mainline catalogs of performers such as Buck Owens, Nancy Sinatra and Sonny and Cher to now legendary 60's innovators such as The Shadows of Knight, The Trashmen, The Remains and hundreds more. Sundazed is soon to launch a jazz imprint, Euphoria, dedicated to keeping alive the works of such jazz legends as Joe Puma, Herb Ellis and Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland. All along the way, while struggling in vain to shrug off the mantle of respectability and the avalanche of great press, Bob Irwin has managed to keep Sundazed a fun and interesting label, as well as a handmade sandbox in which he can look forward to making castles each and every day. Favorite Links Sundazed Music

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