Join author David Menconi and Steve Weiss, Southern Folklife Collection Curator, for a conversation about Menconi’s new release, Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music.

For more than fifty years, Rounder has been the world’s leading label for folk music of all kinds. Menconi’s book is the label’s definitive history, drawing on previously untapped archives and extensive interviews with artists, Rounder staff, and founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, and Bill Nowlin. Placing Rounder in the company of similarly influential labels like Stax, Motown, and Blue Note, this story is destined to delight anyone who cares about the place of music in American culture.

Author signing following the program

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