New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Omnivore Recordings won its first Grammy Award for Hank Williams' The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, which was voted Best Historical Recording in yesterday's 57th annual Grammy Awards.
The label, founded by (four-time Grammy nominee) Cheryl Pawelski, received the award for the previously unknown recordings at Sunday's ceremonies. This was Omnivore's first nomination. She shares the award with engineer Michael Graves and music historian and reissue producer Colin Escott.
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, released May 20, 2014, features 24 performances, unheard for 64 years, from country music legend Hank Williams. Rescued from obscurity, these shows originally aired more than six decades ago; The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 collects material from the four episodes now known to exist. From hits to standards to songs rarely (if ever) performed, the collection is pure Hank Williams, including playful between-song banter. Featuring fully restored audio, The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 was painstakingly transferred, restored and mastered from original transcription discs by Grammy Award-winning engineer Graves.
Omnivore has offered reissues from artists across all genres including Buck Owens, Game Theory, Jellyfish and more. The mission: to preserve and celebrate great musical legacies. This is co-founder Pawelski's passion, as well as that of her partners Greg Allen, Brad Rosenberger, and Dutch Cramblitt.
In addition to the label, Omnivore Entertainment Group also houses a publishing arm, Omnivore Publishing, as well as a consulting division, Omnivore Creative. Via the latter, Pawelski recently complied and produced the
Wilco anniversary sets (What's Your 20? and Alpha Mike Foxtrot), with Allen providing the designs.
Omnivore Recordings, with its Historical Grammy win, has set the standard as the label to watch. More projects are en route that will take listeners to places they may have missed, some they never even knew existed and to new musical horizons in the future.
Cheryl Pawelski, partner in Omnivore Recordings and co-producer of Hank Williams' The Garden Spot Program, 1950, said, "Omnivore is thrilled to be recognized by the Recording Academy with the Grammy for Best Historical Album and are so grateful to Jett Williams for trusting us to present this previously unknown chapter of the Hank Williams story. His is a towering and unparalleled legacy and we are honored."
According to Jett Williams, daughter of Hank Williams, "I am thrilled to death that these recordings of my dad's won the Grammy. It's such a wonderful tribute to him that the songs he recorded over 60 years ago are being discovered, enjoyed, and honored by a whole new generation of Hank fans."
About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by highly respected, longtime industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found "lost" recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA).
