Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records
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

(alphabetical (by last name for single artist))

A-L

Terry Allen Acoustic Syndicate Tina Adair Pat Alger Auldridge, Reid & Coleman Mike Auldridge Austin Lounge Lizards Bad Livers Baucom, Bibey & Blueridge Riley Baugus Berline, Crary & Hickman Black Prairie Byron Berline Alan Bibey Blue Rose Boone Creek Sarah Borges Ronnie Bowman The Brother Boys

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Sam Bush BlueRidge California Chesapeake Guy Clark Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby Country Gentlemen John Cowan Dan Crary Mike Cross Rodney Crowell The Deep Dark Woods Grey DeLisle Don Dixon Donna The Buffalo Jerry Douglas Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan Casey Driessen

John Duffey The Duhks Jonathan Edwards & the Seldom Scene Cathy Fink Front Range The Gibson Brothers Good Ol' Persons The Gourds Pat Green The Greencards David Grisman Aubrey Haynie Chris Hillman Hot Rize Randy Howard Walter Hyatt The Infamous Stringdusters Carl Jackson

Wanda Jackson[9] Sarah Jarosz Jewel Joey + Rory Marti Jones Kathy Kallick Robert Earl Keen King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running Kukuruza Barbara Lamb Sonny Landreth Grey Larsen Laurel Canyon Ramblers Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Albert Lee Lonesome River Band Lonesome Standard Time

M-Z

Mike Marshall & Chris Thile Kathy Mattea Del McCoury Band James McMurtry Metamora Scott Miller & The Commonwealth Jim Mills moe. Allison Moorer Jimmy Murphy Mutual Admiration Society Carl Jackson, John Starling & The Nash Ramblers Nashville Bluegrass Band Willie Nelson Willie & Bobbie Nelson Tara Nevins New Grass Revival

Nickel Creek Mollie O'Brien Tim O'Brien Maura O'Connell Osborne Brothers David Parmley Dolly Parton Tom Paxton Johnny Paycheck Herb Pedersen Positive Force Psychograss Railroad Earth Ranch Romance Reckless Kelly Red Clay Ramblers Red Stick Ramblers

Lou Reid Tony Rice Don Rigsby Peter Rowan Peter Rowan & The Nashville Bluegrass Band Kevin Russell's Junker Martha Scanlan Darrell Scott Seldom Scene Sammy Shelor Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice Ricky Skaggs Connie Smith Corey Smith Kenny Smith John Starling Marty Stuart

Bryan Sutton Sweethearts of the Rodeo Chris Thile Trapezoid Greg Trooper Uncle Kracker Uncle Walt's Band Sally Van Meter Townes Van Zandt Sean Watkins Doc & Merle Watson Doc And Richard Watson Doc Watson and Frosty Morn Doc Watson Don Williams Brian Wright Lee Ann Womack

See also

• List of record labels
• Welk Music Group
  • Ranwood Records
  • Vanguard Records
• 1978 in music
• 1998 in music

References

1. "EMI Label Services & Caroline Distribution". carolinedist.artiststaging.com. Caroline Distribution. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
2. Discogs - Barry Lyle Poss (profile and discography)
3. 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.
4. Goldsmith, Thomas, ed. (2004). "Introduction". The Bluegrass Reader. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. p. 24. ISBN 0-252-02914-3.
5. 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.
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. Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10). "Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards". Radio Monitor (San Francisco: AllBusiness.com). Retrieved 2009-07-04.
9. "Wanda Jackson 'In the Studio' - Video". Rolling Stone. 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2013-06-29.

External links

• Official website