Independent Louisiana-based label Valcour Records launched in 2006 as a small label with a mighty voice. Last year saw Valcour’s artists, founders and music featured on HBO hit Treme and the Travel Channel’s No Reservations. With multiple Grammy nominations for artists like Pine Leaf Boys and Cedric Watson, Valcour has been taking its message to the Los Angeles-based awards ceremony for years and making an impact with Dirk Powell’s high-profile session work with Sting and Jack White. The label is poised to make a different kind of statement in 2012. For the first time, the label founders may sign non-Louisiana artists. The label plans to use the countrywide virtual community of roots musicians it has helped foster for six years as a resource for geographically and sonically expanding its roster. Read the full story by Jeff Roedel in this month’s 225 here.
Valcour Records going beyond Cajun country
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