Who owns rounder records

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None of us had business experience; we expected to have careers in academia. That, and a lot of help from people who liked what we were doing. What I hope people get out of this is encouragement. That if you have an idea, try to pursue it. You'll maybe run into obstacles, you might not be as lucky as we were at times, but we had some obstacles too along the way.

And it's just there was a passion that we had, and determination. We certainly weren't afraid of work, and so we would put in 18 hours a day, 16 hours a day.

In the beginning, we'd go down to the basement and pack boxes for an hour to work up an appetite for breakfast. But I would also say, be cautious too. Just don't dive off the deep end and assume that you're going to succeed, because you probably won't.

We were very cautious. And we just built it bit by bit, took our time. Is it safe to say that the spirit of Rounder got started during your Tufts days? You and Ken heard some phenomenal music that was part of the folk revival in Cambridge and Boston. You talk a lot about your work with Rounder as a passion—how you weren't in it for the money, but wanted to change the world for the better by helping to preserve American traditions. Why was that important?

We always knew we were building something that had value and meaning in that cultural context. In my case, I was always attuned to history. I moved to Lexington [Massachusetts] just before I was 6, and because of the American Revolution, arguably, beginning there, history's just always been a big part of the town.

From the time I was 14, I was giving tours of the Battle Green; as I say in the book, I always identified with the farmers who gathered there to take a stand against the British. Marian was a history major, as well, and Ken's father was a writer and his mother was an activist in the peace movement. Establishing the label was as much a political gesture for the trio as it was cultural.

It was the end of the s, when every personal decision felt political. In Rounder put out the debut from J. Crowe and the New South, a groundbreaking bluegrass album featuring guitarist Tony Rice, dobro master Jerry Douglas, and a young Ricky Skaggs on fiddle and mandolin.

But it was a couple of records cut by a former roadie for Hound Dog Taylor that would lift Rounder onto a whole new stage. The band, from Delaware, relocated to Boston; by they were opening for the Rolling Stones. The founders felt obliged to devote much of their attention to their new star. Rounder was expanding in other ways, too. Early on, the founders identified an opportunity to serve as New England distributors for other independent labels around the country.

All this growth did not come without growing pains. In the late s the Rounder staff wanted to unionize. The owners were opposed, and they dug in, the three principals pitted against their employees. Nevertheless, the late years of the millennium were mostly good to Rounder.

Later that decade Irwin signed a young bluegrass fiddler named Alison Krauss when she was just 14; she grew up to become the most-awarded female artist in Grammy history. Rounder also spun off several subsidiary labels — Bullseye Blues, the reggae imprint Heartbeat, an alternative pop and rock hub called Zoe.