The Wall Street Journal‘s Barry Mazor looks at Rounder Records’ 40th anniversary and speaks with Michael Scully, author of The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance.

Unlike most post-folk-revival roots labels, they were never a one-genre label; they were more like a 50-genre label, and they showed that ‘roots music’ could be cool stuff. When you do all that, and reach as many people as they have, you start changing the concept of what roots or folk music is in the modern world.