Earwig Music Company also known as Earwig Records is an independent blues musicrecord label in Chicago, Illinois. Michael Robert Frank, its founder, President and CEO, started Earwig Records in 1978. It produces new recordings and reissues traditional and contemporary blues. Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ...