• Source: Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass label)

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label.
It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss and David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records. 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. 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. In 2008, Welk Music Group appointed EMI as distributor of its labels including Sugar Hill. 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.
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


1992 – Spring Training, Carl Jackson and John Starling
1994 – Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go, Nashville Bluegrass Band
1995 – The Great Dobro Sessions, Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor (producers)
1996 – Unleashed, Nashville Bluegrass Band
1997 – True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe, Todd Phillips (producer)
2001 – The Grass Is Blue, Dolly Parton, Steve Buckingham (producer) and Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer); Parton's first release on the label
2006 – The Company We Keep, Del McCoury Band




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


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




References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• David Grisman
• Robert Earl Keen
• Kentucky Thunder
• Dolly Parton
• Sara Evans
• Nickel Creek
• Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass label)
• Sugar Hill Records
• Sugar Hill
• Vanguard Records
• Rounder Records
• List of record labels: R–Z
• John Cowan
• The Grass Is Blue
• Gibson Brothers (bluegrass duo)
• County Records