Black Lake Records

Anais Munro and Filipe Romero started Black Lake Records in the Spring of 1962 out of the back of their 59 Chevy Apache while travelling along highway 101. Using connections in student papers in University of California and other colleges during their separate and chaotic attempts to be students, they recruited student artists, recording them performing in National Parks, campus auditoriums, and bus stations heading North. They edited and pressed compilation albums in Seattle, where they were stranded cashless for some time each attempt, and then sold the albums on their trips South. Their three trips helped document and promote a new sound of the West Coast that powered both folk and funk movements that followed and stand as a model for current musicologists and anthropologists.

Just kidding. That's not their names or lives. These are my parents before my birth. They were Mormons.