Founded in 1991 by Gillian Welch in Nashville, TN as a vehicle to release her music without the constrains of a "major" record label. "The Acony Bell," as Gillian explains it, "is the little flower that blooms through great adversity, it’s the first flower to bloom in the spring even though there’s still snow on the ground. It became the name of our record label." Time (The Revelator) was the maiden voyage of Acony Records. "We’re very excited," Gillian says of the venture, whose artist roster consists only of her and David Rawlings. Keeping the staff small and the roster smaller is the primary goal.

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