Rounder Records

Rounder Records is an American independent record label based in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). The label is one of the largest independent record label in the United States with several specialized sub- labels.

History

It was founded in 1970 by students Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton Levy. The name originated in part from a connection with the band Holy Modal Rounders, but the word " Rounder " also means vagabond, tramp or hobo. One of her earliest success was artist George Thorogood and the Destroyers. For a long time Rounder also an important distribution for other independent labels who had specialized in roots music, at a time when the company took 450 of the small labels. In the 1990s, however, the label reduced its activities in the area of ​​sales and focused more on their own productions.

Repertoire

Rounder Records began with blues, blues-rock, string bands and bluegrass and now has a repertoire of over 3,000 titles in the genres of folk, soul, soca, Cajun and neo- Celtic music. A current project of the label is the Alan Lomax Collection, a series of release of the legendary ethnomusicologists and folk collector.

Rounder was one of the first labels the - released their albums as CDs - since 1985. In 2004, the company the publisher Rounder Books.

Artists on Rounder published (ed)

Independent music Cambridge (Massachusetts) The Holy Modal Rounders Bluesrock Bluegrass music Folk music Cajun music Compact Disc Digital Audio Norman Blake (American musician)
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