Draft:Forty Below Records
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Forty Below Records is an independent record company based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 2013 by 2-time Grammy nominated Producer and Songwriter, Eric Corne. Its roster includes John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite (Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album), Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood, JD Simo & Luther Dickinson, Joe Louis Walker, Sugaray Rayford, Jaime Wyatt, Freedy Johnston, Danielle Nicole, The Bacon Brothers, Philip Sayce, Sam Morrow, The Doohickeys, Dom Martin and KaiL Baxley.
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Comment: Please remove the trademark symbols — see MOS:TMRULES —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 19:44, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: It needs better references to establish notability, and the article needs to be reworked to reduce promotional language. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 16:56, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
History
Forty Below's first release was KaiL Baxley's Heatstroke/The Wind and the War. The album was nominated for NPR Album of the Year and saw Baxley make his NPR World Café and All Songs Considered debuts.[1][2][2][3]
In 2014, Forty Below signed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member John Mayall. Mayall and Corne made five studio albums featuring guests such as Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Little Steven, Joe Bonamassa, Marcus King, Rush's Alex Lifeson and The Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell. In addition, Corne re-mastered and released three archive Bluesbreakers albums Live in 1967 Volumes I, II, III, which featured the original members of Fleetwood Mac.
In 2017 Forty Below released Jaime Wyatt's debut album Felony Blues. The album was covered by Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The LA Weekly, The LA Times, Noisey and Saving Country Music.[4][5][6]
In 2018 Sam Morrow's Concrete and Mud was Top 10 on the Americana Radio Chart.[7] The song "Quick Fix" was featured in Showtime's Billions. The album was featured in Rolling Stone,[8] Vice/Noisey[9] and on NPR's World Café.[10]
Sugaray Rayford's Somebody Save Me album was nominated for the 2020 Contemporary Blues Album Grammy,[11] while also earning Rayford Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist and B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.[12][13][14]
In 2022, Forty Below signed Grammy winner and Blues Hall of famer Joe Louis Walker. Also that year, it released Freedy Johnston's Back on the Road to You which featured Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs and Susan Cowsill. Sugaray Rayford was a featured performer at AAA Radio's Non COMMvention.
Rayford won the 2023 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Album of the Year for In Too Deep.[15]
Dom Martin's 2023 release Buried in the Hail won the UK Blues Award for Album of the Year.[16]
John Mayall's The Sun is Shining Down was nominated for the Best Traditional Blues Grammy at the 2023 Grammys.[17]
In 2024, Forty Below released Danielle Nicole's The Love You Bleed and Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood's Blues Experience. Both albums reached #1 on The Billboard, Amazon and iTunes Blues Charts.[18] The label also released albums by Philip Sayce The Wolves Are Coming and The Bacon Brothers The Ballad of the Brothers.
In 2025 Charlie Musselwhite's Look Out Highway was nominated for the Best Traditional Blues Grammy.[19]
Discography
| Release Dates | Artist | Title |
| May 29, 2026 | JP Soars feat. Anne Harris | Gypsy Blue Revue |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Dale Watson | Wanted |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mike Finnigan | Mike Finnigan |
| Dec 3, 2025 | The Doohickeys | Merry Happy Whatever |
| Oct 3, 2025 | The Bacon Brothers Feat. Mare | People Of The World |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Dallas Burrow | The Way The West Was Won |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Chambers Deslauriers | Our Time To Ride |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Sugaray Rayford | How The Other Half Lives |
| May 16, 2025 | Charlie Musselwhite | Look Out Highway |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Tony Holiday | Keep Your Head Up |
| Apr 4, 2025 | The Bondsman feat. Kevin Bacon & Jennifer Nettles | Hell And Back |
| Jan 24, 2025 | The Doohickeys | All Hat No Cattle |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dom Martin | Buried Alive |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Philip Sayce | Hole in My Soul |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood | Blues Experience |
| Sept 20, 2024 | J.D. Simo & Luther Dickinson | Do The Rump! |
| Aug 30, 2024 | KaiL Baxley | A Light That Never Dies (Instrumentals) |
| June 14, 2024 | Sugaray Rayford | Human Decency |
| Apr 19, 2024 | The Bacon Brothers | Ballad Of The Brothers |
| Feb 23, 2024 | Philip Sayce | The Wolves are Coming |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Danielle Nicole | The Love You Bleed |
| Sep, 22, 2023 | Dom Martin | Buried in the Hail |
| Sep, 8, 2023 | John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers | Live in 1967 Volume III |
| Jun, 09, 2023 | Sara Petite | The Empress |
| Apr, 14, 2023 | Tony Holiday | Motel Mississippi |
| Mar, 24, 2023 | Sam Morrow | Addicted to Love (Cover) |
| Mar, 03, 2023 | The Claudettes | Irregulars |
| Feb 17, 2023 | Joe Louis Walker | Weight of the World |
| Oct 14, 2022 | The Claudettes | The Claudettes Go Out! |
| Sept 9, 2022 | Freedy Johnston | Back on the Road to You |
| Mar 4,2022 | Sugaray Rayford | In Too Deep |
| Jan 28, 2022 | John Mayall | The Sun is Shining Down |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Sam Morrow | Gettin' by on Gettin' Down |
| Apr 3, 2020 | The Claudettes | High Times in the Dark |
| May 31, 2019 | The HawtThorns | Morning Sun |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Sugaray Rayford | Somebody Save Me |
| Feb 22, 2019 | John Mayall | Nobody Told Me |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Eric Corne | Happy Songs for the Apocalypse |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Sam Morrow | Concrete and Mud |
| Feb 23, 2018 | John Mayall | Three for the Road |
| Oct 6, 2017 | Bill Carter | Bill Carter |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Jaime Wyatt | Felony Blues |
| Jan 27, 2017 | John Mayall | Talk About That |
| May 6, 2016 | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers | Live in 1967 - Volume 2 |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Bill Carter | Innocent Victims & Evil Companions |
| Sept 18, 2015 | Sam Morrow | There Is No Map |
| Sept 4, 2015 | John Mayall | Find A Way To Care |
| June 2, 2015 | KaiL Baxley | A Light That Never Dies |
| Mar 21, 2015 | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers | Live in 1967 |
| May 30, 2014 | John Mayall | A Special Life |
| Apr 29, 2014 | Sam Morrow | Ephemeral |
| Mar 19, 2013 | KaiL Baxley | Heatstroke / The Wind and the War |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Eric Corne | Kid Dynamite & The Common Man |
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