Intrepid Records was a Canadian

Canada

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 independent record label

Independent record label

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 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. People associated with the label included founder Stuart Ravenhill and A&R rep Graham Stairs.

Artists who recorded for Intrepid included National Velvet

National Velvet (band)

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, Rheostatics

Rheostatics

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, Meryn Cadell

Meryn Cadell

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, The Bookroom, Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins

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, Rail T.E.C., Squiddly, Stranger Than Fiction, Cottage Industry and KCC & Dance Speak

Kim Clarke Champniss

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The label was best known, however, for two tribute albums, the 1991 Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn

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 tribute Kick at the Darkness

Kick at the Darkness

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featuring the Barenaked Ladies version of "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" and the 1992 Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

 tribute Back to the Garden

Back to the Garden

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. The label also released the soundtrack album for Bruce McDonald's film Highway 61.

Intrepid was distributed through Capitol/EMI Canada.