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Rounder Records Corp.

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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$25.0M

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In 1970, with only their passionate enthusiasm for American roots music lighting the way, three Cambridge, Massachusetts college students cast their lot into the perilous music industry. "Before founding Rounder, we were basically music fans," says Rounder Records co-founder Ken Irwin. "None of us," echoes co-conspirator Bill Nowlin, "had any record industry experience whatsoever." "I doubt that 'industry experience' is a term we would have comprehended at the time we started Rounder!," interjects the third member of the Rounder triumvirate, Marian Leighton-Levy. Yet this untested trio went the distance: from humble beginnings over thirty years ago to what is now America's premier independent record label. From its early interest in rural American music (via fiddle, stringband, blues, and bluegrass recordings) to an expansive catalogue of more than 3,000 titles running the gamut from folk to world, soul to socas, jazz to juju, Cajun to Celtic, and beyond, Rounder has emerged as the preeminent source for vital, uncompromised music of all genres. Such a vast body of music was born of nothing more than the tenacity of three music lovers whose search for the soul of Americana music did not end at the bottom reaches of industry top forty charts. Their quest eventually led them to the traditional music that flourished in the small towns and open spaces of the American south. ...

Number of Employees 110

Contact Information

1 Rounder Rd

Cambridge, Massachusetts 01803

www.rounder.com

(617) 354-0700

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NAICS Code Integrated Record Production/Distribution: 512220

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The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance

- 2009-03-01

The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance By Michael F. Scully University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 2008, ISBN 0252033337, 288 pages, hbk., $40.00 Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways By Richard Carlin Harper Collins (New York, NY),...

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DISC NEWS

- 2009-02-13

JAN. 13... Mark O'Connor, Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio: Live in New York OMAC Records... Daedalus, The Never Ending Illusion (SPV/Gallileo Records/ProgRock Records)... Votum, Time Must Have a Stop (SPV/Mindfield/Progrock Records/Insanity Records)... Eliane Elias, Bossa Nova Stories Blue Note... JAN. 27.. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream Columbia Records... Tina...

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DISC NEWS

- 2008-09-12

AUG. 19... Ten Shekel Shirt, Jubilee Rounder Records... Sandra Boynton, Blue Moo Rounder Records... Donavon Frankenretter, Pass It Around Lost Highway Records... Young@Heart Chorus, Mostly Live (Rhino, CD)... The Pineapple Thief, Tightly Unwound (K-Scope/Snapper Music)... The Moondoggies, Don't Be a Stranger Hardly Art... Alex Woodard, Alex Woodard (Woodshack/Adrenaline Music Group)......

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OBITUARIES: Hayward "Chuck" Carbo

- 2008-08-15

Hayward "Chuck" Carbo, whose smooth baritone fronted the 1950s quintet The Spiders, died July 11, 2008, in New Orleans after a long illness. He was 82. Both sides of their 1954 debut for Imperial Records, "I Didn't Want to Do It" and "You're the One," cracked the Top 10 of...

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Good-Time Bluegrass

- 2008-05-01

TO LISTEN Rhonda Vincent, seven-time "Female Vocalist of the Year" for the International Bluegrass Music Association, has released a new album that may well earn her an eighth IBMA crown. Good Thing Going (Rounder Records, $17.98) features 12 tracks that demonstrate her vocal range. She has enough of...

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Shout! Factory acquires Hightone; Bad Brains vinyl set arrives

- 2008-04-25

(ProQuest: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) AUCTIONS... "Kerze" Candle, an oil painting by artist Gerhard Richter, sold for a whopping ï¿½7,972,500 at Sotheby's recent Contemporary Art Evening auction. The painting's sale price came in at more than three times the high-end pre-sale estimate of ï¿½2.5 million. Created in 1983, "Kerze"...

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DISC NEWS

- 2008-04-25

MARCH 3... Various artists, The Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan (Ace, 2 CDs)... Various Artists, The Golden Age of American Popular Music - The Folk Hits Ace... Various artists, Memphis 70 Kent... Various artists, New Breed R&B With Added Popcorn Kent... Various artists Blame It On The...

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Blue & Gold

- 2008-03-22

In "Blue & Gold," Linda Thompson sings of a situation as old as time in many cultures." true love forsaken because of an arranged marriage. While Linda does add a personal twist to the story by pointing out that even true love can prove problematic--forever binding a two hearts together--her...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 International Folk Alliance Music and Business Awards presented during the organization's annual February conference held in Memphis, Tennessee

- 2008-03-22

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 International Folk Alliance Music and Business Awards presented during the organization's annual February conference held in Memphis, Tennessee. The winners are Uncle Earl Album; Tom Russell Song; Levou Helm Trad Artist; Susan Werner Contemporary Artist; Carolina Chocolate Drops Emerging Artist; Woody Guthrie (Legacy...

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Ron Block: Door Way

- 2008-01-01

RON BLOCK Door Way Rounder Records 0587 Ron Block is an exceptional musician and songwriter. In the fifteen years he has been a member of Union Station with Alison Krauss, they have recorded ten of Ron's songs. He has never been locked into the Strict parameters of the bluegrass...

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