Biography

Radio Contacts:
Ashley Moyer - ashley.moyer@concordmusicgroup.com - Bluegrass
Ayappa Biddanda - ayappa@concordmusicgroup.com -
Americana, NonComm

The Rounder Label Group comprises the Rounder and Sugar Hill labels.

About Rounder Records:
Rounder Records, founded in 1970 by Cambridge, MA folkies, Irwin, Nowlin, and Leighton Levy, has been at the center of nearly all of the American roots revivals that have reshaped the music world over the last 40 years. A major force in a broad range of musical genres including Americana, bluegrass, country, folk, rock, Cajun/Zydeco and children’s music, Rounder’s outstanding artist roster includes Alison Krauss and Union Station, Steve Martin, RUSH, Gregg Allman, The Time Jumpers, Carlene Carter, The Earls of Leicester, SteelDrivers, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Raffi, Mark O’Connor, and rising stars such as Sierra Hull, Pokey LaFarge, and many others.

Rounder recording legend Alison Krauss, is the most decorated female artist in the history of the Grammy® Awards and has also sold over eight million albums and DVDs. Her collaboration with Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant on the album Raising Sand emerged as one of 2007’s major critical and word-of-mouth sales success stories. The album was RIAA certified platinum in early 2008 andwon five Grammy® Awards including Album and Record of the Year in 2009.

An unequaled leader in the preservation and re-release of precious historic recordings, Rounder has brought the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and Mississippi John Hurt back to vibrant life. In addition, their dazzling work on the epic anthologies from the Library of Congress and the Alan Lomax Collection has been universally respected and admired.

In 2014, Rounder relocated from its longtime base of Boston, Massachusetts to its current home in Nashville, Tennessee.

About Sugar Hill Records:
In 1978, Barry Poss launched Sugar Hill Records (named after a song Poss heard in Western North Carolina). Poss wanted a strong label identity with a “signature sound,” that stood for great artists and quality production, similar to what Sam Phillips had done with Sun Records. While traveling around rural areas in the South with his banjo, engrossing himself in traditional music, Poss became intrigued by the music of the children and grandchildren of the mountain musicians he visited. Those younger generations of musicians were a combination of the old and the new—influenced as much by old-time and bluegrass music as they were rock, country and other newer forms of music. This interesting combination of, and tension between, roots and contemporary music gave further impetus for Poss to start Sugar Hill Records. Ricky Skaggs was the perfect personification of this tension and became the first artist Poss targeted to help launch the new record label. Sugar Hill’s first album was by a band called Boone Creek, featuring Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas, two artists Poss credits as being instrumental in shaping the “Sugar Hill sound.” The success of that record begat a Ricky Skaggs solo effort, Sweet Temptation, that went on to sell over 150,000 copies—a huge success for the brand new independent label.

Following on that success, Sugar Hill, in a joint effort with Epic Records, released Ricky Skaggs’ Don't Cheat In Our Hometown. That record helped pave the way for a neo-traditional movement in Nashville/Country Music. It also helped Sugar Hill cement its burgeoning legend - a legend that would, decades later, elicit praise: “Sugar Hill is one of twenty-one labels that changed the world … reinventing country music”

Sugar Hill Records is now a Nashville-based record label specializing in Americana, roots, and bluegrass music. 30 years strong, Sugar Hill has become a leader in Americana, Bluegrass and Traditional Country music. Countless Grammy awards and accolades have made Sugar Hill a premier destination for some of the world's most celebrated musicians.

In 2015 Sugar Hill joined with Rounder Records under Concord Music Group to form Rounder Label Group.

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