High Street Records was a subsidiary

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from about 1990 to 1997. Notable acts who recorded for the label include

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, and

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. Several

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associated with High Street appeared on the 1989 Windham Hill compilation, '' Legacy: A Collection of New Folk Music'' and the 1992 follow-up on High Street, '' Legacy II: A Collection of Singer-songwriters''.

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