Sugar Hill Records
| Sugar Hill Records | |
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| Parent company | Concord Music Group |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Founder | Barry Poss, David Freeman |
| Distributor(s) | Caroline Distribution[1] |
| 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 [2] with assistance from David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records.[3] [4] 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.[5] 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. In 2008, Welk Music Group appointed EMI as distributor of its labels including Sugar Hill.[6]
The label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015.[7]
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
- 2010, Marty Stuart won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for his song "Hummingbyrd", from his album Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
In 2006, Sugar Hill executive Barry Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.[8]
Artists currently or formerly with Sugar Hill
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See also
References
- ↑ "EMI Label Services & Caroline Distribution". carolinedist.artiststaging.com. Caroline Distribution. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ↑ Discogs - Barry Lyle Poss (profile and discography)
- ↑ Hoffman, Frank and Ferstler, Howard, ed. (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 and Ferstler, Howard, ed. (2005). "Sugar Hill (label) (II)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. p. 1078. ISBN 0-415-93835-X.
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10). "Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards". Radio Monitor (San Francisco: AllBusiness.com). Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ↑ "Wanda Jackson 'In the Studio' - Video". Rolling Stone. 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2013-06-29.