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American record label
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
Other Grammys
2002 – "Shine", from Little Sparrow , Dolly Parton,
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
2003 –
This Side ,
Nickel Creek ,
Alison Krauss (producer), and Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer),
Best Contemporary Folk Album
2006 – Fiddler's Green ,
Tim O'Brien ,
Best Traditional Folk Album
2007 – "Whiskey Before Breakfast", from Not Too Far from the Tree ,
Bryan Sutton and
Doc Watson ,
Best Country Instrumental Performance
2010 – "Hummingbyrd" from Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions ,
Marty Stuart ,
Best Country Instrumental Performance
2016 —
Undercurrent ,
Sarah Jarosz ,
Best Folk Album
Roster
See also
References
^
a
b Neil V. Rosenberg (2005).
Bluegrass: A History . University of Illinois Press. pp. 376–.
ISBN
978-0-252-07245-1 .
^ 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 .
^ Goldsmith, Thomas, ed. (2004). "Introduction". The Bluegrass Reader . Champaign:
University of Illinois Press . p. 24.
ISBN
0-252-02914-3 .
^
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 .
^ Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10).
"Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards" . Radio Monitor . San Francisco:
AllBusiness.com . Retrieved 2009-07-04 .
^
"EMI And Welk Group Announce Sales And Distribution Partnership" (Press release). 2008-06-30. Retrieved 2010-09-13 .
^ Billboard
"Concord and Bicycle Merge to Form Concord Bicycle Music, Acquires Vanguard and Sugar Hill Records" , Billboard.com , 1 April 2015
^
"Wanda Jackson 'In the Studio' - Video" . Rolling Stone. 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2013-06-29 .
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