31.   In Nashville, the elder Hayes cut a couple of sides for an independent label and seemed well on his way.

32.   In the intervening years he recorded for a host of independent labels such as Tomato and Sugar Hill.

33.   Independent labels and individual musicians see digital distribution as a way to deliver music directly to listeners.

34.   Independent record labels that used to sign edgier, unknown artists were long ago swallowed up by the giants.

35.   It books blues singers with albums on independent labels, who work a circuit from the Midwest to the Deep South to New York City.

36.   It recently introduced a test version, offering users access to a limited amount of music from independent record labels.

37.   It will be distributed by Priority Records, the independent hip-hop label that has sold millions of albums by disturbing performers like N.W.A.

38.   It will be released in the summer, perhaps on an independent label.

39.   Like the independent labels that have catalyzed most of the major changes in pop, bootleggers do market research, testing the demand for live recordings and studio rejects.

40.   Mainly recorded on small independent labels, the sound has been creeping onto the airwaves and into small concert halls.