Evejim Records was an American independent record label founded in the 1980s by Leon Haywood

Leon Haywood

Otha Leon Haywood is an American funk and soul singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 1975 hit single "I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You", which has been much sampled by Dr. Dre and others....

 and based in Los Angeles, California. The label released various soul, blues, hip hop and electro recordings, as well as rerecordings of some of Leon Haywood's earlier work.

The company developed out of a record production business which Haywood had first set up in 1967, and which he named after his parents. The label became somewhat famous for recording older established blues and soul performers who had been previously inactive in recording for a period of time. These included:

Little Joe Blue

Little Joe Blue

Little Joe Blue was an American blues singer, and guitarist.-Career:Born Joseph Valery, Jr. in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his music were heavily influenced by the work of Louis Jordan, Joe Liggins, and B. B. King...

Buddy Ace

Buddy Ace

Buddy Ace was an American blues singer, known as the "Silver Fox of the Blues." His best known tracks were "Root Doctor" and "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man"....

Jimmy McCracklin

Jimmy McCracklin

Jimmy McCracklin is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a thousand songs and has recorded hundreds of them...

Clay Hammond

Vernon Garrett

External links

• [ Allmusic.com biography]