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Rounder Records

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Rounder Records is a Blues and Folk act. Their sound grew out of Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton and Woody Guthrie. Those roots explain a lot about how Rounder Records arrange songs and choose their tones. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Rounder Records, reaching back through Carter Family. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists including Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka, and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville. In 2016, the founders of Rounder were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.

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Rounder Records grew out of Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton and Woody Guthrie. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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