Southland Records

Southland Records was founded c.1948 by Joe Mares, Jr.. Spotlighting traditional style New Orleans jazz, they continued through to the late 1960s when Mares retired. The label was sold to George H. Buck, Jr. who ended up reissuing much of the Southbound material on labels such as Jazzology. Later on CD the Jazzology group has used the Southland label for recordings of rural blues.