Vinyl Ventures

Bill Nowlin, one of the three Rounder founders, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Rounder for most of its history. In addition to his work with Rounder, he has specialized in writing and editing books, most of them about another passion: baseball.

• Foreword1. THE BACKSTORY TO STARTING A RECORD COMPANY2. ROUNDER’S FIRST TWO RECORDS – OCTOBER 19703. BUILDING THE BUSINESS – THE EARLY 1970s4. ORGANIZING THE INDIE SIDE OF THE RECORD BUSINESS5. THE CONCEPT OF A COLLECTIVE IS CALLED INTO QUESTION6. THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTIES – GEORGE THORGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS, AND WRESTLING WITH CHANGE7. ENTERING THE 1980s: 50 DATES IN 50 STATES – NO NIGHTS OFF!8. STARTING OUR SECOND DECADE, A MATURING COMPANY, AND SOME REAL GROWING PAINS9. THE MIDDLE 1980s – FLYING BY THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS10. ALISON KRAUSS – 1986 AND FOR DECADES TO COME11. 1990 – ROUNDER TURNS 2012. 1995 - A QUARTER OF A CENTURY IN, AND STILL FLYING BY THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS13. JOHN VIRANT – “THE FOURTH ROUNDER”14. 2000 – ROUNDER TURNS 30 AS WE ENTER A NEW CENTURY15. SELLING THE COMPANY – THE NEXT ITERATION: THE CONCORD CONNNECTION (2010)16. ROUNDER’S SENSE OF MISSIONAppendix: The Rounder Founders