Re: Raising Sand raising the bottom line...

["wildcatfan822@xxxxxxxxx" <wildcatfan822@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is SOME truth to the anonymous comment on Steve Sauer's site. Rounder
is pressuring RP to commit to another huge world tour after the next album
and he is balking, wanting to do 20 shows max. That much I do know to be
fact. And the rumor mill in Nashville is buzzing about "chemistry issues"
between the two vocalists. I don't know if any of that is true or not,
but right now I would not put any money into betting on a Raising Sand 3.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/02/11/grammys_ease_way_for_mass_label/
>
> But when Virant and label founders Marian Leighton-Levy, Ken Irwin, and
>> Bill Nowlin returned from Los Angeles, where they celebrated into Monday
>> morning, they faced the same challenges as do every record company
>> executive.
>>
>> Even Plant seemed to understand, praising Rounder from the Staples Center
>> stage as "an independent label working against all sorts of stuff, which is
>> terrible, but thank you."
>>
>> Last year, Rounder cut its staff from more than 100 employees to roughly
>> 75, and at the time Nowlin (a Tufts grad like Irwin) admitted uncertainty
>> about the label's long-term future. "Keeping the record company alive is the
>> main goal," he said.
>>
>> The remarkable success of "Raising Sand" should go a long way in doing
>> that. Immediately after the awards, it flew to the top of the Amazon music
>> rankings as well as several digital download sites. So far it's sold over a
>> million copies in the United States and another million worldwide.
>>
>> "There's no question that it will be just a tremendous boon,"
>> Leighton-Levy said from Los Angeles on Monday. "It means a great deal at
>> this point in time to have a nice bounce like that come right back to the
>> bottom line."