The label of the Nelmwood Country Studios, of Frimley, Surrey. Information about Nelmwood is hard to come by, but the company was responsible for at least three albums and one single in the first half of the 1970s. Guitarist Ed Wooden, who played alongside Country artist Bryan Chalker for a while, was named as producer on one of the albums and recording engineer on another, so it seems like a good bet that he was closely associated with the label - he may even have provided the 'wood' part of its name. The record which earned Nelmwood a place on this site was a single by The St. Matthew's Sound, 'A Slow Waltz' b/w 'A Traditional Melody'. There was no date on the labels, but the matrix number WO-2172 in the run-off was one of a series used by manufacturers C.H. Rumble (q.v.); WO-2165 came out in 1972 and WO-2234 in 1973, which enables us to say that the single came out in one or the other of those years. The most recent Nelmwood record that I have been able to track down was the 'Pioneer' album by a duo called Country Law; it had a couple of John Denver tracks on it, 'Back Home Again' and 'Grandma's Feather Bed', which first appeared on Denver's 'Back Home Again' LP, in the summer of 1974. The Country Law versions have to be later than that, which suggests that their record dates from either the second half of that year or some time in 1975. It came out on the Nelmwood Country label rather than Nelmwood Audio. An album by Bryan Chalker's New Frontier, 'The Hanging Of Samuel Hall', was recorded by Nelmwood Audio but it was issued by Avenue Records (q.v.) in 1971, as AVE-071. Thanks to Redpunk of the 45cat site for the use of his scan here.
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