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Bev Paul, Exec Who Helped Turn Sugar Hill Records Into an Iconic Roots Music Brand, Dies


Bev Paul, former GM for Sugar Hill Records, has died. She is remembered by some of the colleagues and bluegrass or folk musicians she championed.

Bev Paul, who oversaw the Sugar Hill Records label as general manager as it became a staple of the modern roots music movement, died April 19 in Durham, North Carolina after a battle with lung cancer. The label won more than a dozen Grammys in the bluegrass, country and folk fields, including honors for artists like Nickel Creek, Dolly Parton, Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien that recorded for the company under her watch. Moving to the Raleigh-Durham area, she joined radio station WQDR and worked at the home office of the Record Bar, a national music retailer, where she got to know emerging talents like the Judds and Alan Jackson before they broke big.

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