POINT BLANK
RECORDS
Independent label: Point Blank Records is a record label subsidiary of
Virgin Records. Point Blank Records was founded in 1988 by John Wooler. Wooler
served as Deputy Head of A&R at Virgin Records UK from 1984 to 1994 and
Senior Vice President of Virgin Records US from 1994 to 2002. He had a passion
for blues, Americana and soul. His manager, Simon Draper granted him a small
budget to create the label. The first act signed to the record label was Larry
McCray followed by Albert Collins and The Kinsey Report. As time moved forward,
artists such as John Lee Hooker, Solomon Burke, Pops Staples, John Hammond,
Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Van Morrison, and Johnny Winter were signed to the
label as well. Wooler signed all the musicians on this label and produced many
of them.It managed one singles. It issued singles in an TS-000
numerical series. Distributed By Virgin Records.
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Mccray
Larry
Ambition
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Mccray Larry
Me And My
Baby
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Hooker John
Lee
Boom Boom
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Hooker John
Lee
Boogie At Russian
Hill
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Duke Robillard
Temptation
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John Lee
Hooker
Chill Out (Things Gonna
Change)
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