A-Tone Music
A long, long time ago, in the waning days of a vinyl millennium, Nancy Alenier and Jim Gardner began pursuing their musical passions by booking festivals, hosting radio shows, housing wayward musicians, making basement recordings, and collecting way too many records. These adventures evolved into A-Tone Music, and it's been nothing but infectious three-minute journeys ever since. For awhile, A-Tone looked like it might become a booking agency and/or a management service, but the realization that most musicians are unmanageable soon struck. And isn’t making music more fun than managing the unmanageable? So, making music became A-Tone’s focus. Releasing the first A-Tone disc in 1997, Samba Ngo's Metamorphosis, the Asheville, N.C. label has offered the world music from Jr. James & The Late Guitar (featuring Nancy and Jim), Mandorico, Bill Reynolds, Tyler Ramsey, J. Winston Phillips, Aaron Price, The Blue Rags, Paperboy, The Carpenter Ants, the Decline of WNC artists, The Mad Tea Party, Jeff Scott, Hollywood Red, and others. It's been an exhilarating ride, and the best is in rough mix.