Hush Records is a

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founded by Chad Crouch.

Background

Crouch, frontman of the band Blanket Music, organized Hush Records in

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, when he self-released a solo record called ''Portland, Or''. The following year, Crouch bought a CD burner and began recording and distributing music by Mike Johnson (Reclinerland), Jeff London, and Ben Barnett (

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) to record stores locally. It wasn't until the 1999 releases of Kaitlyn Ni Donovan's '' Songs for Three Days'' and a compilation called ''Flag'' that Hush had a national distributor.

50th release

The label continues to release several records a year, recently having reached its 50th release milestone with the appropriately titled 50-track compilation ''Mile''.

Artists and releases

In June, 2009,

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released their ''Trumpets for Paper Children'' EP through Hush Records. Tracks on the EP were sourced from two previous albums, ''Lament For Children'' released in 2006 and ''Paper The Walls'' which was released in 2007. A converted church in Portland called "The Funky Church" was the site where two new videos of the band, "Elephants and Little Girls" and "Witchy" were recorded by label founder Chad Crouch. Hosannas' were a group that caught the attention of Hush Records. Impressed by their sound, Hush signed them up and released a CD, ''Then & Now & Then'' in 2010. OregonLive.com, May 07, 2010
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Hush artists (past and present)

* Peter Broderick *

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* Blanket Music * Bobby Birdman *

Casey Dienel Casey Dienel (born March 10, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She released her debut album, ''Wind-Up Canary'', in 2006 on Hush Records. Dienel has also performed and recorded as White Hinterland, whose first album, titled ' ...

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* Fancie *

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* Jeff London *

* Kaitlyn Ni Donovan *

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Miki Howard Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard (born September 30, 1960) is an American singing, singer and actress who had a string of Top 40, top 10 hit songs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine (Miki Howard song), Baby, Be Mine" (1987) ...

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* Reclinerland *

Corrina Repp Corrina Repp is a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and actress from Portland, Oregon and now lives in Los Angeles. Her albums ''I Take On Your Days'' (2001) and ''It's Only the Future'' (2004) were released on Hush Records, while ''The Absent and t ...

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* Super XX Man * The Tooth Fairy *

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* Run On Sentence * Carlos Forster * Kele Goodwin * Chad Crouch * Rauelsson * Nick Jaina * YEYEY

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