Bill Nowlin

Founder of Rounder Records

Bill Nowlin 1: The Club 47 was the place we went more than any place. It was a very educated audience, too. People that came and were dedicated enough to spend that time standing in line knew who the artist was, and knew maybe something about them. So you’d be sitting there talking to people, most of us learned about music through records in those days and so we’d talk about records. You could say things to people like “wow, that third track on the second side, wow wasn’t that great?” and people would say “yeah, yeah, I really liked that one, but what about the first one on the first side?” You know, you could have that kind of discussion with people without even naming the song because people knew what you were talking about.