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Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass label)

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Sugar Hill Records
Parent company Concord
Founded 1978  ( 1978 )
Founder Barry Poss
David Freeman
Distributor(s) Universal Music Group
Genre Americana , bluegrass
Country of origin U.S.
Location Nashville, Tennessee
Official website concord .com /labels /sugar-hill-records /

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label .

It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss [1] and David Freeman , the owner of County Records and Rebel Records . [2] [3] 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 . [4] Poss stayed on as president, and in 2002 was promoted to chairman. In 2006, Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association . [5] In 2008, Welk Music Group appointed EMI as distributor of its labels including Sugar Hill. [6] Sugar Hill continued to operate from Durham N.C. until 2007, when Poss moved the label to Nashville, Tennessee . In 2015 the label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music . [7]

Among the many notable artists who have released albums on the label are Nickel Creek , Doc Watson , Townes Van Zandt , Ricky Skaggs , Guy Clark , Robert Earl Keen , 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.

Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album [ edit ]

Other Grammys [ edit ]

Roster [ edit ]

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References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Neil V. Rosenberg (2005). Bluegrass: A History . University of Illinois Press. pp. 376?. ISBN   978-0-252-07245-1 .
  2. ^ Hoffman, Frank; Ferstler, Howard, eds. (2005). "Country Records (sic)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press . pp. 245?246. ISBN   0-415-93835-X .
  3. ^ Goldsmith, Thomas, ed. (2004). "Introduction". The Bluegrass Reader . Champaign: University of Illinois Press . p. 24. ISBN   0-252-02914-3 .
  4. ^ Hoffman, Frank; Ferstler, Howard, eds. (2005). "Sugar Hill (label) (II)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press . p. 1078. ISBN   0-415-93835-X .
  5. ^ Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10). "Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards" . Radio Monitor . San Francisco: AllBusiness.com . Retrieved 2009-07-04 .
  6. ^ "EMI And Welk Group Announce Sales And Distribution Partnership" (Press release). 2008-06-30 . Retrieved 2010-09-13 .
  7. ^ Billboard "Concord and Bicycle Merge to Form Concord Bicycle Music, Acquires Vanguard and Sugar Hill Records" , Billboard.com , 1 April 2015
  8. ^ "Wanda Jackson 'In the Studio' - Video" . Rolling Stone. 2012-07-10 . Retrieved 2013-06-29 .

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