Analogue Productions Originals
Your source for authentic blues and more

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Looking for the real Blues? That authentic Blues that makes your spine tingle? The Blues that isn't watered down with over-production or misplaced back-up singers and overpowering horn sections? Well, you've found it. Today, as Blues enjoys widespread commercial appreciation, there are very few outlets for the real thing; Blues true to this genre's All-American roots. APO Records, since 1993, has had but one goal - to capture deep, true Blues through audiophile recordings. We've built an operation that includes the world-renowned Blue Heaven Studios, a church-turned-recording studio smack dab in the middle of Kansas. APO Records is about quality. From Blue Heaven to our mastering facility, AcousTech Mastering, down to the stock of paper and printing quality we choose for our deluxe album booklets, APO Records consistently spends more to bring deserving artists exceptional records.

Our roster of musicians centers around Blues legends like 93-year-old Henry Townsend (the only musician to have recorded in every decade since the 1920s), Jimmy Rogers (who introduced a young Muddy Waters to the Chicago scene in the 1940s and helped form the first and most-classic Muddy Waters Band), Jimmie Lee Robinson (known as the Lonely Traveler and a man who backed stars like Little Walter, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf before achieving recording success on his own) and 87-year-old Honeyboy Edwards (one of the last living links to Robert Johnson and the rich delta-style Blues that Johnson made famous). From there, we've included a few up-and-comers like Jimmy D. Lane (Jimmy Rogers' son and a mean, high-voltage electric Blues guitarist), Harry "Big Daddy" Hypolite (a Blues and Zydeco guitarist who backed Clifton Chenier and CJ Chenier for years before breaking out on his own) and Noah Wotherspoon (a 20-year-old guitar virtuoso whose style pays significant homage to the older Blues masters).

And APO offers a few non-blues albums by Folk/Americana singer Nancy Bryan and Jazz singer Myra Taylor.