Rounder Records

Rounder Records

infobox record label


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founded = 1970
genre = Various
country = US
url = [http://www.rounder.com/ Official website of Rounder Records]

Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts but now based in Burlington, is an independent record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students. Rounder is now one of the biggest independent record labels in the United States, with several specialized subsidiary labels. It once served as a major distributor and central sales location for other independent labels specializing in roots music, at one point representing as many as 450 other labels. In the 1990s, though, the company cut back on the distribution effort in order to focus on its own productions.

Starting with blues, blues-rock, string band, and bluegrass, Rounder has expanded to over 3,000 titles of folk, soul, soca, Cajun, and Celtic. The name was chosen partly because of its association with the band Holy Modal Rounders. The word rounder also means a hobo or tramp. One of their earliest successes was the blues-rock band George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

One of the label's projects is the Alan Lomax Collection, a series of releases of the work of the pioneering ethnomusiclogist and folklorist.

Among Rounder's artists, bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss (who had been with the label for the duration of her career) was offered a number of major label deals following her commercial breakthrough in the late 1990s, but Krauss opted to remain with Rounder.

Rounder was one of the very first labels to become involved with compact discs, in 1985. In 2004, the company launched a book division known as Rounder Books.

Artists (past and present)

* Tom Adams
* Darol Anger
* The Balfa Brothers
* Russ Barenberg
* Tony Bird
* Norman Blake
* The Blue Sky Boys
* Bodeans
* James Booker
* Sandra Boynton
* Bob Brozman
* Buckwheat Zydeco
* Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
* Chuck Carbo
* Cephas & Wiggins
* Bruce Cockburn
* Cowboy Junkies
* Country Cooking
* Delta Spirit
* Minnie Driver
* Béla Fleck
* J. Geils
* Girl Authority
* The Grascals
* Nanci Griffith
* Juliana Hatfield
* George Thorogood and the Destroyers
* King Wilkie
* Alison Krauss
* Sleepy LaBeef
* David Laibman
* John Linnell
* Lisa Loeb
* Mike Marshall
* Lynn Morris
* Magic Dick
* John McCutcheon
* Nashville Bluegrass Band
* Alecia Nugent
* NRBQ
* Ellis Paul
* Tom Paxton
* Madeleine Peyroux
* Grant-Lee Phillips
* Preacher Jack
* Raffi
* Tony Rice
* Jonathan Richman
* Amanda Shaw
* Riders in the Sky
* Rush
* Sierra Hull
* Jo-El Sonnier
* SteveSongs
* Tut Taylor
* They Might Be Giants
* The Tragically Hip
* Uncle Earl
* Guy Van Duser
* Vienna Teng
* Rhonda Vincent
* Loudon Wainwright III
* Martha Wainwright
* Doc Watson
* Ween
* Cheryl Wheeler
* The Wild Magnolias
* Pianosaurus

ee also

* List of record labels
* nimbit

External links

* [http://www.rounder.com Official site]


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