Bill Nowlin

Founder of Rounder Records

Bill Nowlin 2: Another friend was a graphic designer who worked at B.U., and he said “listen, I’ll design the covers for free, but my deal is that I want to design all of your covers for free, not just one.” We said “ok, that sounds like a good deal to us!” He had no idea we were going to end up putting out nineteen records in the third year and he reached a point where he couldn’t really design them all, but he designed maybe twenty albums for us over the first four, five years, and all for free.