Ridge Runner was one of the first labels to release and market bluegrass music in the southwestern U.S.[1] While operating Warehouse Music in Fort Worth in the mid-1970s, selling guitars and musical equipment, Slim Richey began making records on his Ridge Runner label.
[2] One of the first goals of Ridge Runner was to record and release albums by the banjo player Alan Munde, but the label branched out to other bluegrass and country musicians and groups.
The album had Richey and Sumter Bruton on guitar, Dan Huckabee on Dobro, Richard Greene, Ricky Skaggs and Sam Bush on fiddle, Joe Carr and Kerby Stewart on mandolin and Bill Keith, Gerald Jones and Alan Munde on banjo.
[4] Other significant albums released by Ridge Runner include: Ridge Runner also published Richey's bluegrass songbooks and music instruction videos.
[8] Here is a partial list of artists who have released recordings on the Ridge Runner label: