Parent company Concord Music Group Genre Various Parent organization Concord Bicycle Music | Country of origin U.S. Official website www.rounder.com | |
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Founded 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Headquarters Nashville, Tennessee, United States Founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, Bill Nowlin, Marian Leighton-Levy Artists Albums Live, J D Crowe & The New South, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, New Favorite, Lonely Runs Both Ways Profiles | ||
Rounder records 2008 folk alliance international lifetime achievement award recipient
Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music. Its roster includes Alison Krauss and Union Station, Béla Fleck, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and Steep Canyon Rangers. Rounder's musicians have won over 40 Grammy Awards since the label's inception in 1970. The company also maintains book and video divisions.
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- Rounder records 2008 folk alliance international lifetime achievement award recipient
- Founding
- Alison Krauss
- References
Founding
Rounder was founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, three college friends in Massachusetts who shared an interest in folk, old country, and bluegrass music. They gave the label its name for several reasons: the shape of a vinyl record, the nickname for a hobo, and the name of the folk band The Holy Modal Rounders. In Rounder's first three years, it released 19 records, starting in 1970 with an album by George Pegram, a 76-year-old banjo player from Texas.
Rounder's earliest success was George Thorogood and The Destroyers, a blues-rock band that sold half a millions copes of their 1978 album Move It On Over. Headquarters were moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over the years, Rounder expanded its roster to include other genres such as reggae, and zydeco. The label's first Grammy was won by blues guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown in 1983 for the album Alright Again.
Alison Krauss
Rounder's most successful act is bluegrass singer and fiddler Alison Krauss. In 1991, at the age of 19, she won a Grammy Award for her second album, I've Got That Old Feeling. The album spawned singles, videos, and national TV exposure. Krauss has sold over 12 million albums and won 27 Grammy Awards, more than any other female recording artist. In 2012, Rounder was sold to Concord Music Group. Two years later, Rounder moved its headquarters to Nashville.