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Probably best known for the 1960 million-seller “Mule Skinner Blues” by the Fendermen, Cuca also recorded legendary blues records by Earl Hooker, Harvey Scales, and Birdlegs, made the first recordings of rock musicians Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs, created the largest line of circus music in the world, as well as the largest line of old-time and ethnic music in the 1960s. Primarily recording Wisconsin-based artists, Kirchstein essentially took a sonic snapshot of the Wisconsin soundscape in the 1960s and along the way recorded a lot of rock, pop, jazz, soul, gospel, as well as, country music. By the time he retired from the business in the 1970s, his recording empire included a recording studio, a record label and multiple subsidiary labels, a pressing and plating plant, a radio station to play and promote the records, as well as a brick and mortar record store to sell them. In this presentation I will share a little bit of the exciting and eclectic \"Wisconsin Sound\" that Kirchstein preserved as well as details regarding how his collection came to Mills Music Library and how it continues to grow.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBased in Sauk City, WI, Jim Kirchstein founded Cuca Records in 1959. 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