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Much has changed at Cambridge’s independent label
CAMBRIDGE — When Tufts University graduate Ken Irwin started Rounder Records in 1970, he saw it as a home for old-timey artists who played anything from obscure bluegrass instrumentals to coal-mining laments.
Such styles fit his noncommercial, underground mind-set. He and fellow owners Marian Leighton and Bill Irwin had been ’60s hippies who had no interest in the business world, with Leighton even calling Rounder an ’’anti-business" (...)