Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records
Parent company	Welk Music Group
Founded	1978
Founder	Barry Poss, David Freeman
Distributing label	EMI
Genre	Bluegrass, Americana
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	Nashville, Tennessee
Official Website	Sugar Hill Records.com

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss with assistance from David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records.^[1][2] Poss acquired full control of Sugar Hill in 1980 and owned the label until 1998, when he sold it to the Welk Music Group, owner of Vanguard Records.^[3] Poss stayed on as president, and in 2002 was promoted to chairman. Sugar Hill remained in Durham until 2007, when Poss moved the label to Nashville, Tennessee. Among the many notable artists who have released albums on the label are Nickel Creek, Doc Watson, Townes Van Zandt, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, Sam Bush and Dolly Parton. One of Parton's albums for Sugar Hill, Halos & Horns (2002), included a song called "Sugar Hill", which she wrote as a tribute to the label.

Label-related awards

Sugar Hill artists have won a series of Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album, including:

• 1992, Carl Jackson and John Starling for Spring Training
• 1994, The Nashville Bluegrass Band for Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go
• 1995, Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor (producers) for The Great Dobro Sessions
• 1996, The Nashville Bluegrass Band again for Unleashed
• 1997, Todd Phillips (producer) for True Life Blues - The Songs of Bill Monroe
• 2001, Dolly Parton, Steve Buckingham (producer) and Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer) for The Grass Is Blue, Parton's first release on the label
• 2006, The Del McCoury Band for The Company We Keep

The label's Grammy-winning artists in other categories include:

• 2002, Parton's song "Shine" from the album Little Sparrow won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
• 2003, Alison Krauss (producer), Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer) and Nickel Creek won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for This Side
• 2006, Tim O'Brien's Fiddler's Green album (2005) won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
• 2007, Bryan Sutton won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for his duet with Doc Watson on "Whiskey Before Breakfast", from Sutton's 2006 album Not Too Far From the Tree

In 2006, Sugar Hill executive Barry Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.^[4]

Artists currently or formerly with Sugar Hill

(alphabetical (by last name for single artist))

A-L

Terry Allen Acoustic Syndicate Tina Adair Pat Alger Auldridge, Reid & Coleman Mike Auldridge Austin Lounge Lizards Bad Livers Baucom, Bibey & Blueridge Riley Baugus Berline, Crary & Hickman Byron Berline Alan Bibey Blue Rose Boone Creek Sarah Borges Ronnie Bowman The Brother Boys

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Sam Bush BlueRidge California Chesapeake Guy Clark Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby Country Gentlemen John Cowan Dan Crary Mike Cross Rodney Crowell Grey DeLisle Don Dixon Donna The Buffalo Jerry Douglas Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan Casey Driessen

John Duffey The Duhks Jonathan Edwards & the Seldom Scene Cathy Fink Front Range The Gibson Brothers Good Ol' Persons The Gourds The Greencards David Grisman Aubrey Haynie Chris Hillman Hot Rize Randy Howard Walter Hyatt The Infamous Stringdusters Carl Jackson

Sarah Jarosz Joey + Rory Marti Jones Kathy Kallick Robert Earl Keen King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running Kukuruza Barbara Lamb Sonny Landreth Grey Larsen Laurel Canyon Ramblers Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Albert Lee Lonesome River Band Lonesome Standard Time

M-Z

Mike Marshall & Chris Thile Del McCoury Band James McMurtry Metamora Scott Miller & The Commonwealth Jim Mills Allison Moorer Jimmy Murphy Mutual Admiration Society Carl Jackson, John Starling & The Nash Ramblers Nashville Bluegrass Band Willie Nelson Willie & Bobbie Nelson Tara Nevins New Grass Revival

Nickel Creek Mollie O'Brien Tim O'Brien Maura O'Connell Osborne Brothers David Parmley Dolly Parton Tom Paxton Johnny Paycheck Herb Pedersen Psychograss Railroad Earth Ranch Romance Reckless Kelly Red Clay Ramblers Red Stick Ramblers

Lou Reid Tony Rice Don Rigsby Peter Rowan Peter Rowan & The Nashville Bluegrass Band Kevin Russell's Junker Martha Scanlan Darrell Scott Seldom Scene Sammy Shelor Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice Ricky Skaggs Kenny Smith John Starling Marty Stuart

Bryan Sutton Sweethearts of the Rodeo Chris Thile Trapezoid Greg Trooper Uncle Walt's Band Sally Van Meter Townes Van Zandt Sean Watkins Doc & Merle Watson Doc And Richard Watson Doc Watson and Frosty Morn Doc Watson

See also

• List of record labels
• 1978 in music
• 1998 in music

References

1. ^ Hoffman, Frank and Ferstler, Howard, ed (2005). "Country Records (sic)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 245-246. ISBN 041593835X. 
2. ^ Goldsmith, Thomas, ed (2004). "Introduction". The Bluegrass Reader. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. pp. 24. ISBN 0252029143. 
3. ^ Hoffman, Frank and Ferstler, Howard, ed (2005). "Sugar Hill (label) (II)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 1078. ISBN 041593835X. 
4. ^ Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10). "Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards". Radio Monitor (San Francisco: AllBusiness.com). http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-north-carolina/688546-1.html. Retrieved 2009-07-04. 

External links

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