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Earwig Music Company is an independent American blues and jazz record label, founded October 1978 in Chicago by Michael Frank.

Before setting up his label Michael Frank from 1975 until 1977 had been - like Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records and Jim O'Neal of Living Blues magazine - employed in Bob Koester's Chicagoan Jazz Record Mart.

Since its foundation Earwig Music has issued fifty-seven albums, of which fifty were produced by its CEO, Michael Frank, among them the last recordings of Louis Myers , Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, and early Howlin’ Wolf Band's guitarist Willie Johnson.

Other artists among the label's roster are blues musicians The Jelly Roll Kings (with Frank Frost), Honeyboy Edwards, Johnny Drummer, Big Jack Johnson, Jimmy Dawkins, Louisiana Red, Willie Kent, H-Bomb Ferguson, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Jim Brewer, Homesick James, John Primer, Lil' Ed Williams, Lester Davenport, Johnny Ray, and Liz Mandville Greeson, jazz musicians Carl Arter and Tiny Irvin, a gospel group: the Gospel Trumpets, and renowned folk storytellers Jackie Torrence, Alice McGill, Bobby Norfolk and Laura Simms. Those storytellers’ Earwig recordings won American Library Association, Parents′ Choice, and NAIRD Awards , Johnny ″Yard Dog″ Jones in 1998 won a Handy Award – Best New Artist – for his Earwig CD Ain’t Gonna Worry.