Sugar Hill Records

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[laughs] So, uh, also we got Arrogance from Chapel Hill, rock band, uh, Barry Poss from Durham, who is the founder of Sugar Hill Records, so that's pretty cool.

Worked with some amazing, um, artists such as Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs, Dolly Parton.

Um, so just a amazing talent.

He was a influential jazz composer.

So that...

And, and what I love is that jazz composer, founder of Sugar Hill Records, rock band, go-go music, and then rock.

It's like-

Also, two members who are going into the Hall of Fame this year who have also passed away.

Barry Posse, who was the guy that started Sugar Hill Records.

And, of course, that was a huge label.

Still is, I guess.

Mm-hmm

... um, or the, or the Old Friends record, when he was on Sugar Hill Records-

Sure

... which was a folk label.

I took a couple cassette tapes with me, blank cassettes.

In 1986, I think it was, the Bluegrass Cardinals were getting ready to do a gospel album for Sugar Hill Records.

It was

called The Shining Path.

But anyway, it's just, it's really, I don't know, it's special to get to play and play these festivals and keep people's memories alive.

Because I worked at Sugar Hill Records 25 years ago when Doc was on the label and been going to Roll Fest.

Yeah, and so it's just cool to get to be a part of these festivals and help remember these people that are legends.

You guys came first to me.

Okay, so this is kind of a fun story.

So we were back when we were a duo.

I mentioned I worked at Sugar Hill Records, and we were trying to decide on a name.

and I still was friends with Bev Paul who was the general manager of Sugar Hill Records years ago and was really in her own right a pioneer of I mean she helped start the Americana genre as a name and the chart and everything in fact And I think it was right before COVID in 2020, we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and she won the Louise Scruggs Award for Women in the Music Business.