Label Guide: Blue Goose

Blue Goose Records was an independent American blues label, founded by Nick Perls in 1970. It was a sister label to his Yazoo Records (founded in 1968), and while on Yazoo, Pearls focused on making vintage blues available again, he started Blue Goose to release music by a variety of live performers that Perls recorded himself, often right in his New York West Village living room.

Blue Goose stayed small as Perls operated his business mostly by himself, only occasionally employing assistants. The label was active throughout the 1970s with the last album release dating from 1980.

Blue Goose Music Pty Limited was a late 1970s Australian record label, based in Melbourne. It is completely unrelated to Nick Perls' Blue Goose, and much of this label's history is blurry. This Australian label is best known for releasing several albums of Mexican-American guitarist Sixto Rodriguez in Australia, apparently also producing at least one of them.