Earwig Music Company

Earwig Music Company Earwig Music is a record label, music distribution, management & consulting company, celebrating 41 years of blues & roots recordings.

Earwig Music is available from EarwigMusic.com and other retailers worldwide & from digital download sites worldwide. Chicago, Delta and Piedmont Blues Music as well as the the finest in Jazz, Gospel, Storytelling, and now World Music!

06/06/2026

Shakura moanin' the blues
2026

Shakura Z'Aida is singing her heart out tonight Chicago Blues Festival!
06/06/2026

Shakura Z'Aida is singing her heart out tonight Chicago Blues Festival!

Rusty told me this story, I loved it. How about you?"My favorite group to work with was the Shirelles. One singer had l...
05/03/2026

Rusty told me this story, I loved it. How about you?

"My favorite group to work with was the Shirelles. One singer had left but the three remaining were original and they were great. Most of these groups had charts of their songs they brought with them and they were usually pretty generic. I usually did chord charts ahead of time just to be ready and most of the guys couldn’t read music anyway. We were fooling around at rehearsal and we ran down one of my charts and one of the girls said that’s the original key and we wound up using my charts. We were playing a fair way in the mountains of eastern Ky. And Joey Dee and the Star-lighters were supposed to appear but canceled and the Shireles got the call at the last minute. I was a little concerned about how that would work, mountain folk can get pretty upset if they don’t get what they are expecting. No problem, Doris, Mickey, and Beverly Lee won them over right from the get go. The show was in a big circus tent and it had been raining for two days. Sand had been dumped on the ground but it was soaked, the Shirelles wore really fancy hi-heels and long dresses and there was a young boy in the crowd in a wheelchair. The Shirelles trudged down off the stage and went up to that kid and sang to him, and the crowd went wild. They could have ended the show right there and the crowd would have been delirious. But they went on and finished out the show and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I want to add that the Shirelles were the first successful girl group in rock’n’roll, but they had a lot of soul. Every night when I’d hit the opening
chord and the singer would go “This Is Dedicated To The One I Love” it was so soulful I had to remember to play the next chord."
-Rusty Ends, Rusty Ends & HillBilly HooDoo

The Jukebox IncidentOne night a biker tells me:“I got 3 more songs on the jukebox. Let it play.”I asked the bouncer what...
04/23/2026

The Jukebox Incident
One night a biker tells me:
“I got 3 more songs on the jukebox. Let it play.”
I asked the bouncer what to do.
He said:
“Get on stage when it stops.”
I did.
Never saw that biker again.
That’s all I’m gonna say about that one…

Here's a post from an artist we are working with, Rusty Ends. Hope you'll follow along.The Old West of Clubs...Back in t...
04/16/2026

Here's a post from an artist we are working with, Rusty Ends. Hope you'll follow along.

The Old West of Clubs...
Back in the 60s and 70s, clubs didn’t have “security”…
they had bouncers.
And bouncers had reputations—like gunfighters.
Some guys didn’t even go out to drink…
they went out hoping to fight one.
Because if you could beat the bouncer…
you might just take his job.
Different world. Different rules.
Anybody else remember nights like that?

You can see more about Rusty here:
RustyEndsMusic.com

The Old West of ClubsBack in the 60s and 70s, clubs didn’t have “security”…they had bouncers.And bouncers had reputation...
04/16/2026

The Old West of Clubs
Back in the 60s and 70s, clubs didn’t have “security”…
they had bouncers.
And bouncers had reputations—like gunfighters.
Some guys didn’t even go out to drink…
they went out hoping to fight one.
Because if you could beat the bouncer…
you might just take his job.
Different world. Different rules.
Anybody else remember nights like that?

🎉 Chart News to Celebrate 🎉Proud moment for Chicago blues legend John Primer.His album "Grown In Mississippi" landed at ...
01/29/2026

🎉 Chart News to Celebrate 🎉

Proud moment for Chicago blues legend John Primer.

His album "Grown In Mississippi" landed at #8 on The Roots Music Report
Top Blues Album Chart for the Year of 2025.

And it's charting at #11 for the week of 1/22/2026!

Deep roots. Real blues. Still rising.

👏🎸🔥

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