Bloodshot Bill Travelin' Travelin' Guitars - The Message - I Saw Her First (7inch, EP, 45rpm, white vinyl)(7inch, EP, 45rpm, white vinyl)

(Squoodge Records) 3 tracks

I remember like it was yesterday when I bought my first Norton Records release at the end of the 80's. It was the Rockin R's LP (Norton ED 205) and it was the beginning of a longterm friendship between a record company from New York City and myself. This was many moons ago and I can say, that no other record company in the last 30 years has inspired so many freakish vinyl lovers out there to built up their own small labels and the influence of Norton Records to Record Companies like Crypt, Voodoo Rhythm or Squoodge Records is a nailed down fact. But Billy Miller and Miriam Linna have not only influenced the culture of small indie labels all over the world, their KICKS MAGAZIN (started 1978) has also inspired the whole Rock'n'Roll fanzine & magazine circuit and for me, it was my inspiration to start the Mad House Jump Newsletter Norton Records also had and still has a big heart for the „unheard" and „unwanted", with too much talent for the mainstream, but too rockin' and too bizarre for the so-called Indie-Labels.