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Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid, 2001 on Sugar Hill Records

Released on CD in 2001 but issued on vinyl for the first time in 2024, this was Crowell’s tenth full length album. Johnny Cash (Crowell’s former father-in-law) is featured on “I Walk The Line (Revisited).”

It’s a bit of an autobiographical concept album as Tony Scherman lays out in “Great Songwriter Mines His Past” – but you don’t have to know any of that to get it as a wonderful collection of songs.

My copy is the 2024 VMP reissue on “sepia marble” vinyl, pressed at GZ Media and cut by Barry Grint. (I think it’s still the only vinyl edition).

#2000s #2001 #2024 #BarryGrint #Reissue #RodneyCrowell #SugarHillRecords #vinyl #vinylMePlease #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

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Symbolix Mar 6

@50years_music From #Wikipedia:
#SylviaRobinson is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the hip hop genre: "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by the #SugarhillGang, and "The Message" (1982) by #GrandmasterFlash and the #FuriousFive, both of which she produced. At the 11th Annual Rhythm and Blues Awards Gala in 2000, she received a Pioneer Award for her career in singing and for founding #SugarhillRecords. Several publications have dubbed her the "Mother of #HipHop".

John Eckman Mar 26, 2025

Townes Van Zandt, At My Window, 1987 on Sugar Hill

Van Zandt’s eighth studio album and only one recorded in the 1980s, originally released on the bluegrass label Sugar Hill. I never miss a chance to pick up a Townes Van Zandt record in good shape.

Recorded at Jack Clement’s studio in Nashville (“Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa”) and produced by Clement and Jim Rooney. Great versions of “For the Sake of the Song” and “Gone, Gone Blues” and the title track.

My copy – via Pitchford Records in Concord NH – is the 2022 Craft reissue for Record Store Day 2022 on blue vinyl.

#1980s #1987 #2022 #ConcordNH #craftRecordings #PitchforkRecords #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2022 #Reissue #SugarHillRecords #TownesVanZandt #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Variety May 14, 2024

Bev Paul, Exec Who Helped Turn Sugar Hill Records Into an Iconic Roots Music Brand, Dies
#Variety #News #Obituaries #PeopleNews #AmericanaMusicAssociation #SugarHillRecords

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/bev-paul-dead-sugar-hill-records-executive-roots-music-1235997529/

Bev Paul Dead: Exec Oversaw Sugar Hill Records as Americana Grew

Bev Paul, former GM for Sugar Hill Records, has died. She is remembered by some of the colleagues and bluegrass or folk musicians she championed.

Variety

Kirk Butcher Apr 8, 2024

Found out over the weekend that supreme funk drummer #KeithLeBlanc passed over at the weekend.Rest easy you funk drummer supreme! #Tackhead #FriendlyAsAHandGrenade #SugarHillRecords #BernardFowler #SkipMCDonald #DougWimbish #AdrianSherwood #MarkStewartAndTheMafia #GaryCail

zeruch Apr 5, 2024

"I admit I had no idea who #MalcolmX was when I first heard it. I was 10 or 11, and it played a few times on college radio, which I was only just starting to tune into, but for which so much of the messaging in the music was alien."

This track by #KeithLeBlanc was probably the first solo track of his I ever heard, and it still is as listenable as it was in the mid 80s:

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-112-keith-leblanc-malcolm-x-no-sell-out/

#SugarHillRecords #OnUSound

Sounds That Have Been made, EP 112: Keith LeBlanc + Malcolm X “No Sell Out”

Back in August of 2023, I had put this entry into my drafts folder (I have about 100 or so STHBM posts floating in my Wordpress queue; anytime a song or artist comes to mind) and figured I would ge…

Joseph Estêvão Arruda (zeruch)