Mark Carpentieri started M.C. Records in 1991. To date, M.C. Records has 20 releases with distribution all over the world. The label’s albums have been nominated for more than 30 W.C. Handy Awards and four Grammy Awards. M.C. Records has released recordings by Odetta, Pinetop Perkins, Gary U.S. Bonds, Kim Wilson, Sleepy LaBeef, Big Jack Johnson, Joanna Connor, R.L. Burnside, and, most recently, Angela Strehli. M.C. Records most ambitious project has been ‘Shout Sister Shout, A Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe’ released in 2003 with Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Joan Osborne, Michelle Shocked, Marcia Ball, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Odetta, Phoebe Snow, Janis Ian, Victoria Williams, Tracy Nelson, Angela Strehli, Marie Knight and the Holmes Brothers.
