Horizon Records

“Josh Rosenthal is a record man’s record man. He is also a musician’s record man. He is in the line of Samuel Charters and Harry Smith. In this age where we have access to everything and know the value of nothing, musicians need people like Josh to hear them when no one else can.”   -T Bone Burnett JOSH ROSENTHAL is a man who wears many hats. He founded Tompkins Square Records, a San Francisco-based label that’s garnered seven Grammy nominations for its diverse catalog of new and archival recordings. He’s been a PR man for Sony Recordings, engineering the PR campaign that drove Robert Johnson’s “Complete Recordings” box-set to gold status in the early 1990’s. And now he’s an author. Rosenthal’s book, “The Record Store Of The Mind,” starts out as a series of critical essays before evolving into something more. It’s a work that’s not quite straightahead music criticism and not quite memoir, but somewhere in between.It’s part “High Fidelity, part collector’s travelogue, part scholarly history and part autobiography of a legendary label owner. Check out the Boston Globe's great profile of Josh and his book here.