David Freeman (music historian)

David Freeman (born May 22, 1939) is a collector, historian, and authority on old-time and bluegrass music. Freeman started the County Records label in 1963 in his native New York to focus on Southern string band music, and began the companion mail-order record retail company County Sales in 1965.^[1] He moved both businesses to Floyd, Virginia in 1974. In 1977, Freeman started the Record Depot wholesale distribution company in Roanoke, Virginia, specializing in bluegrass and old-time music. In 1978 he helped his graphic artist start a bluegrass music record label, Sugar Hill Records, in Durham, North Carolina.^[2] In 1980, Freeman bought Charlottesville-based Rebel Records, a pioneering bluegrass label, from Charles Freeland, one of the label's founders.^[3] Freeman was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 2002.^[4]

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^ Wolfe, Charles (2004). "Dave Freeman and County Records". In Thomas Goldsmith (ed.). The Bluegrass Reader. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. pp. 157–164. ISBN 0-252-02914-3.
^ Hoffman, Frank; Ferstler, Howard, eds. (2005). "Country Records (sic)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 245–246. ISBN 0-415-93835-X.
^ Wyatt, Marshall (1999-08-11). ""Every County Has Its Own Personality", An Interview With David Freeman". The Old-Time Herald. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
^ Biography Archived 2010-08-14 at the Wayback Machine on website of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (accessed February 22, 2007).