Mamlish Records was an American

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, set up in the early 1970s by Don Kent. It specialized in early

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. Along with

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, it was the label most active in the field of re-issuing mainly samplers, but also single artists' albums (

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, Lonnie Johnson,

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, Ed Bell) of pre and post- war blues records, first released as Shellac

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Illustrated Mamlish Records discography
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