Our "Just a bit West of Chicago" (TM) Blue Loon CD's first appeared on store shelves in 1994. We discontinued commercial distribution in October, 2000, and engaged in liquidation of our unsold inventory over the Internet through December 2006, when we threw in the towel altogether. Our CD's will still be handled in Europe by Parsifal until existing inventories are exhausted. No new releases are planned. The loon is dead. The label's  origins date back to the days of vinyl and the W.C. Handy Award winning Sonny Rodgers single "Cadillac Baby / Big Leg Woman" in 1989. Early artists back in our vinyl days (in addition to Sonny) included Milwaukee Slim, Bobby Johnson, Mojo Buford, Percy Strother, and Lady Blue. Other early artists included Big George Jackson, Blue DeLuxe, and Willie Lomax. Our first CD, "Ready To Go!", released in 1992, featured harmonica ace R.J.Mischo teamed with guitarist Teddy "Kid" Morgan and the late Percy Strother on vocals. Percy did a CD of his own, "A Good Woman is Hard to Find" in 1992 as well.  1993 brought debut CD's by the Joel Johnson Band (who did a follow-up CD of all original blues in 1995) and Rockin' Daddy & the Rough Cuts (who also released another excellent straight-ahead blues CD in 2000, "Blues and Tall Tales"). We changed the name of the label (from Blue Moon) in 1994, adopting the now ubiquitous loon-head logo.  R.J. Mischo released the classic "Gonna Rock Tonight" on Blue Loon that year. Also in 1994 we did CD's by two bands which have since broken up: Hook's Combo, and  Bryan Koenig & the Standback Blues Band.  1995 brought  Joe T. Cook's highly acclaimed "It Ain't So Easy". The Boogiemen,and America's favorite jump/swing band, the Senders, each did two CD's on Blue Loon during the midlle 1990's. These were joined by Texas Red (1997), Chicago blues pianist, Barrelhouse Chuck (1998 & 2001), the Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls (1999), and Fort Wayne harmonica man, Bill Lupkin (also 1999). We also took on distribution for CD's by Lamont Cranston, Mississippi Heat, Paul Filipowicz, Jake Jewell, and the Blue Diamonds. (These labels were dropped, following the collapse of M.S. Distributing Company, our primary US distributor at the time). Many of our CD's are still available directly from the artist.

Asthetic appreciation of Blue Loon CD's is more a matter of individual taste than would be the case for many modern recordings, which, in search of broad appeal, compromise some authenticity. We choose not to compromise our blues.