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Vinyl ventures : my fifty years at Rounder Records / Bill Nowlin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3792.R68 N68 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nowlin, Bill, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Popular music history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rounder Records (Firm)--History.
- Rounder Records (Firm).
- Sound recording industry--United States--History.
- Sound recording industry.
- Nowlin, Bill, 1945-.
- Nowlin, Bill.
- Sound recording executives and producers--United States.
- Sound recording executives and producers.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Vinyl ventures: my fifty years at Rounder Records is less a standard history and more an idiosyncratic memoir written by one of the three Rounder founders. The book includes original photographs taken by the author or drawn from the Rounder archives"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 The Backstory to Starting a Record Company p. 5
- 2 Rounder's First Two Records: October 1970 p. 18
- 3 Building the Business: The Early 1970s p. 32
- 4 Helping Organize the Indie Side of the Record Business p. 63
- 5 The Concept of a Collective is Called into Question p. 79
- 6 The Second Half of the Seventies: George Thorogood and the Destroyers, and Wrestling with Change p. 88
- 7 Entering the 1980s: 50 States in 50 Dates - No Nights Off! p. 110
- 8 Starting Our Second Decade: A Maturing Company, and Some Real Growing Pains p. 125
- 9 The Middle 1980s p. 145
- 10 Alison Krauss: 1986 and for Decades to Come p. 156
- 11 1990: Rounder Turns Twenty p. 165
- 12 1995: A Quarter of a Century In, and Still Scuffling p. 197
- 13 John Virant: "The Fourth Rounder" p. 210
- 14 2000: Rounder Turns Thirty as We Enter a New Century p. 236
- 15 Selling the Company: The Next Iteration - The Concord Connection (2010) p. 255
- 16 Rounder's Sense of Mission p. 274.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nowlin, Bill, 1945- Vinyl ventures
- ISBN:
- 9781800500068
- 1800500068
- OCLC:
- 1198989371
- Publisher Number:
- 99988833699
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