Editing Rounder Records (section)

===Beginnings===
Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at [[Tufts University]] in the Boston suburb of [[Medford, Massachusetts]]. Exposure to [[The Greenbriar Boys]], the [[Charles River Valley Boys]], the ''Hillbilly at Harvard'' radio show, and fiddling conventions, as well as the musicians who performed at [[Club Passim|Club 47]], one of the first venues in the Northeast to book African-American blues artists from the American south, fueled their interest in bluegrass, old-time, and other roots music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93310839|title=Club Passim: 50 Years Of Folk Legends|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref><ref name="Billboard Three Decades">{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghMEAAAAMBAJ&q=Ken+Irwin+Bill+Nowlin+Doc+Watson+Kentucky+Colonels&pg=PA18|title=The Rounder Founders: The Trio Talks of Three Decades|last=Henderson|first=Richard|date=February 10, 2001|magazine=Billboard|access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref> They were unable to find records by many of the artists they saw live: the records "just didn't exist."<ref name="Cambridge">{{Cite web|url=https://cambridgehistory.org/music/Nowlin/Bill_Nowlintext.html|title=Bill Nowlin - Music in Cambridge|website=cambridgehistory.org|access-date=2019-12-13}}</ref>

Nowlin and Irwin met Levy, then a student at [[Clark University]], in 1967. An "unrepentant folkie," like Nowlin and Irwin, she moved to Boston to attend graduate school at [[Northeastern University]]. The three shared an apartment as well as a desire to bring roots music to a wider audience, and began to explore the idea of starting a record company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://clarknow.clarku.edu/2010/04/26/rounder-records-founder-celebrates-a-life-in-music/|title=Rounder Records founder celebrates a life in music|date=2010-04-26|website=Clark Now {{!}} Clark University|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref> "We were all involved in radical politics, and the anti-war movement, and a lot of our inspiration for starting Rounder had to do with minority culture and wanting to represent music that we really liked, but that was not in the mainstream," Levy said in a 2015 interview.<ref name="Music Row 2015">{{Cite web|url=https://musicrow.com/2015/12/exclusive-45-years-of-rounder-records/|title=Exclusive: 45 Years of Rounder Records|date=2015-12-21|website=MusicRow - Nashville's Music Industry Publication - News, Songs From Music City|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>