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Rounder Records

Founded	1970
Genre	Various
Country of origin	US
Official Website	Official website of Rounder Records

Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, 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^{[citation needed]}, with several specialized subsidiary labels. It once served as a major distributor^{[citation needed]} and central sales location for other independent labels specializing in roots music, at one point representing as many as 450 other labels^{[citation needed]}. 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.^{[citation needed]}In April 2009, Rounder is releasing the highly anticipated solo effort from ex Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung "100 Years From Now".

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.

1 Artists (past and present)
2 Subsidiary labels a.k.a. The Rounder Records Group ^[1]
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Artists (past and present)

Subsidiary labels a.k.a. The Rounder Records Group ^[1]

Bullseye Blues
Dolphin Safe
Easydisc
Flying Fish
Grand Illusion
Heartbeat
Heavy Rotation
Henry Street
Hudson Music
Moon Junction
Philo
Rounder
Rounder Specials
Symmetry
Trampoline
Upstart
Varrick
Vestapol
Zoe

References

^ The Rounder Records Group. "Rounder Records labels". Rounder Records. http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=labels.php. Retrieved 2009-02-20.

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Rounder Records

Contents

Artists (past and present)

Subsidiary labels a.k.a. The Rounder Records Group [1]

See also

References

External links

Subsidiary labels a.k.a. The Rounder Records Group ^[1]