Herwin Records
Template:Infobox record label Herwin Records was a mail-order record label founded in 1925 by two brothers, Herbert and Edwin Schiele in St. Louis, Missouri. The name of the label comes from their first names (HERbert and EdWIN).<ref name="Kennedy">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="New Grove">Template:Cite book</ref>
Herwin sold budget jazz, blues, and old-time music discs that were pressed by Gennett and Paramount.<ref>Oliver, Paul (2001) Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre, p. 287. Cambridge University Press At Google Books. Retrieved 13 July 2013.</ref> The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail.<ref name="New Grove" /> The catalogue included Charley Patton, Chubby Parker, and Ernest Stoneman.<ref name="Kennedy" />
Herwin closed in 1930 when it was bought by the Wisconsin Chair Company, the owner of Paramount. A second Herwin Records was started in 1971 by Bernard Klatzko, a collector who reissued rare, early-jazz discs.<ref name="New Grove" />
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- Illustrated Herwin Records discography ("Postwar" Klatzko releases)