Takoma Records

Takoma Records was a small but influential record label that was founded in 1959/60 by John Fahey, Norman Pierce and ED Denson. Its name comes from John Fahey's hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland ( a suburb of Washington, DC) back. The Takoma record label brought next to Fahey's own works, among others Plates of Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, Robbie Basho and the bluesmen Bukka White and Robert Pete Williams out and was significant for the type of music American Primitivism. The Takoma catalog was bought in the 1970s by Chrysalis, then of Allegiance in 1995 by Fantasy Records, which in turn were taken over by the Concord Music Group in 2004.