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| awards = [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album]]: [[Hank Williams]], ''[[The Garden Spot Programs, 1950]]'' (2014) and [[Fred Rogers|Mister Rogers]]' ''It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers'' (2021)
| awards = [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album]]:<br>
<li>[[Hank Williams]], ''[[The Garden Spot Programs, 1950]]'' (2014)</li>
<li>[[Fred Rogers|Mister Rogers]]' ''It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers'' (2021)</li>
<li>[[Wilco]], ''[[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]] (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)'' (2023)
<li>''Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos'' (2024)

<br>[[Blues Music Award]], Historical Album of the Year: [[Bobby Rush (musician)|Bobby Rush]], ''Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush'' (2017)<br>Blues Blast Music Award, Best Historical or Vintage Recording: [[Johnny Shines]], ''The Blues Came Falling Down, Live 1973'' (2020); [[Little Richard]], ''Southern Child'' (2021)
<br>[[Blues Music Award]], Historical Album of the Year: [[Bobby Rush (musician)|Bobby Rush]], ''Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush'' (2017)<br>Blues Blast Music Award, Best Historical or Vintage Recording: [[Johnny Shines]], ''The Blues Came Falling Down, Live 1973'' (2020); [[Little Richard]], ''Southern Child'' (2021)
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Audrey Bilger]]|2008}}<ref name="reedmag">{{cite news |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2019/audrey-bilger-new-president.html |title=Scholar. Writer. Teacher. President. There was no script for Audrey Bilger's career. So she wrote her own |magazine=Reed Magazine |first=Chris |last=Lydgate |date=August 30, 2019}}</ref>
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Audrey Bilger]]|2008}}<ref name="reedmag">{{cite news |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2019/audrey-bilger-new-president.html |title=Scholar. Writer. Teacher. President. There was no script for Audrey Bilger's career. So she wrote her own |magazine=Reed Magazine |first=Chris |last=Lydgate |date=August 30, 2019}}</ref>
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Pawelski has supervised recordings, reissues and boxed sets for a wide variety of artists including [[The Band]], [[The Beach Boys]], [[Big Star]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Otis Redding]], [[Nina Simone]], [[The Staple Singers]], [[Rod Stewart]], [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]], [[Townes Van Zandt]], [[Wilco]], [[Hank Williams Sr.]] and [[Warren Zevon]]. She has also produced or overseen several reissues of film soundtrack albums, including ''[[Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me]]'', ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'', ''[[Raging Bull]]'', ''[[Shutter Island (film)|Shutter Island]]'', ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]'' and ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock]]''.
Pawelski has supervised recordings, reissues and boxed sets for a wide variety of artists including [[The Band]], [[The Beach Boys]], [[Big Star]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Otis Redding]], [[Nina Simone]], [[The Staple Singers]], [[Rod Stewart]], [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]], [[Townes Van Zandt]], [[Wilco]], [[Hank Williams Sr.]] and [[Warren Zevon]]. She has also produced or overseen several reissues of film soundtrack albums, including ''[[Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me]]'', ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'', ''[[Raging Bull]]'', ''[[Shutter Island (film)|Shutter Island]]'', ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]'' and ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock]]''.


Pawelski has been both a governor and trustee of [[The Recording Academy]]. She has served on the board of directors for the [[Blues Foundation]], the Industry Advisory Board for the Center For Recorded Music,<ref name="CRMteam">{{cite web |url=https://www.centerforrecordedmusic.org/meet-the-team |title= Meet the Team |last= |first= |date= |website= Center For Recorded Music |publisher= |access-date=2022-04-05}}</ref> and the [[Farm Aid|Farm Aid Development Advisory Council]],<ref name="NoDepression2017" /> and is the External Advisory Board/Music Industry Liaison for the epilepsy-awareness nonprofit [[Joey's Song (CD series)|Joey’s Song]].<ref name="JoeysSong">{{cite web |url=https://www.joeyssong.org/cause |title=The Cause |last= |first= |date= |website=Joey’s Song |publisher= |access-date=2022-04-05}}</ref><ref name="Popdose2011">{{cite web |url=https://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-michael-gomoll-of-joeys-song/ |title= The Popdose Interview: Michael Gomoll of Joey's Song |last= |first= |date=2011-02-08 |website=Popdose |publisher= |access-date=2022-02-22}}</ref>
Pawelski’s board work has included positions as both a governor and a trustee of [[The Recording Academy]], as well as board work or advisory board positions for The [[Blues Foundation]], Women In Vinyl, The [[Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy]], The Center For Recorded Music, ,<ref name="CRMteam">{{cite web |url=https://www.centerforrecordedmusic.org/meet-the-team |title= Meet the Team |last= |first= |date= |website= Center For Recorded Music |publisher= |access-date=2022-04-05}}</ref> [[Farm Aid|Farm Aid Development Advisory Council]],<ref name="NoDepression2017" /> and [[Joey's Song (CD series)|Joey’s Song]].<ref name="JoeysSong">{{cite web |url=https://www.joeyssong.org/cause |title=The Cause |last= |first= |date= |website=Joey’s Song |publisher= |access-date=2022-04-05}}</ref><ref name="Popdose2011">{{cite web |url=https://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-michael-gomoll-of-joeys-song/ |title= The Popdose Interview: Michael Gomoll of Joey's Song |last= |first= |date=2011-02-08 |website=Popdose |publisher= |access-date=2022-02-22}}</ref>


An inveterate collector of music and memorabilia, Pawelski holds a vast personal archive. A portion of her LP collection formed the core of the exhibit ''Spaced Out! The Final Frontier In Album Covers'', which opened at [[Experience Music Project]] in [[Seattle, Washington]], and also showed at [[Bethel_Woods_Center_for_the_Arts#The_Museum_at_Bethel_Woods|The Museum at Bethel Woods]] in New York. The exhibit featured 117 space-themed albums released from 1940 to 1969.<ref name="VinylDistrict2012" /><ref name="THR2011">{{cite news |last=Sparks |first= Leonard |date=2011-04-11 |title=Bethel Woods takes a space-age sleeve journey |url=https://www.recordonline.com/article/20110401/ENTERTAIN/104010348 |work=[[Times Herald-Record]] |location= Middletown, New York |access-date=2020-07-08 }}</ref><ref name="CommercialAppeal2007" /><ref name="PortlandMonthly" />
An inveterate collector of music and memorabilia, Pawelski holds a vast personal archive. A portion of her LP collection formed the core of the exhibit ''Spaced Out! The Final Frontier In Album Covers'', which opened at [[Experience Music Project]] in [[Seattle, Washington]], and also showed at [[Bethel_Woods_Center_for_the_Arts#The_Museum_at_Bethel_Woods|The Museum at Bethel Woods]] in New York. The exhibit featured 117 space-themed albums released from 1940 to 1969.<ref name="VinylDistrict2012" /><ref name="THR2011">{{cite news |last=Sparks |first= Leonard |date=2011-04-11 |title=Bethel Woods takes a space-age sleeve journey |url=https://www.recordonline.com/article/20110401/ENTERTAIN/104010348 |work=[[Times Herald-Record]] |location= Middletown, New York |access-date=2020-07-08 }}</ref><ref name="CommercialAppeal2007" /><ref name="PortlandMonthly" />
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==Awards and nominations==
==Awards and nominations==
Pawelski has won two [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album|Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album]]: In 2014, for producing Hank Williams' ''[[The Garden Spot Programs, 1950]]'', and in 2021 for co-producing [[Fred Rogers|Mister Rogers]]' ''It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers''. She received Grammy nominations for the box sets ''Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly'', ''[[Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968]]'' and ''[[Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm]]''.<ref name="GrammysPawelski">{{cite web |url= https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/cheryl-pawelski |title=Artist: Cheryl Pawelski |website=The Grammys |access-date=2020-07-17}}</ref><ref name="OnMilwaukee2006">{{cite web |url= https://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/cherylgrammy.html |title=Pawelski earns Grammy nomination |last=Tanzilo |first=Bobby |date=2006-12-10 |website=On Milwaukee |access-date=2020-07-08}}</ref>
Pawelski has won four [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album|Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album]]: In 2014, for producing Hank Williams' ''[[The Garden Spot Programs, 1950]]'', in 2021 for co-producing [[Fred Rogers|Mister Rogers]]' ''It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers'', in 2023 for co-producing [[Wilco]]'s ''[[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]] (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)'', and in 2024 for co-producing ''Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos''. She received Grammy nominations for the box sets ''Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly'', ''[[Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968]]'' and ''[[Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm]]''.<ref name="GrammysPawelski">{{cite web |url= https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/cheryl-pawelski |title=Artist: Cheryl Pawelski |website=The Grammys |access-date=2020-07-17}}</ref><ref name="OnMilwaukee2006">{{cite web |url= https://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/cherylgrammy.html |title=Pawelski earns Grammy nomination |last=Tanzilo |first=Bobby |date=2006-12-10 |website=On Milwaukee |access-date=2020-07-08}}</ref>


Pawelski won a 2017 [[Blues Music Award]] in the category of Historical Album of the Year, for producing the [[Bobby Rush]] box set ''Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush''.<ref name="Elmore2017">{{cite news |date=2017-05-17 |title=Blues Music Awards: The best of the best, in Memphis |url= https://www.elmoremagazine.com/2017/05/reviews/shows/blues-music-awards |work=[[Elmore Magazine]] |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=2020-07-17 }}</ref>
Pawelski won a 2017 [[Blues Music Award]] in the category of Historical Album of the Year, for producing the [[Bobby Rush]] box set ''Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush''.<ref name="Elmore2017">{{cite news |date=2017-05-17 |title=Blues Music Awards: The best of the best, in Memphis |url= https://www.elmoremagazine.com/2017/05/reviews/shows/blues-music-awards |work=[[Elmore Magazine]] |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=2020-07-17 }}</ref>

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Cheryl Pawelski
Pronunciationpa-VEL-ski[1]
Born (1966-04-11) April 11, 1966 (age 58)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Alma materMarquette University
OccupationRecord company owner
Years active1990-present[2]
Spouse
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(m. 2008)​
[3]
AwardsGrammy Award for Best Historical Album:
  • Hank Williams, The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 (2014)
  • Mister Rogers' It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers (2021)
  • Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (2023)
  • Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (2024)
    Blues Music Award, Historical Album of the Year: Bobby Rush, Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush (2017)
    Blues Blast Music Award, Best Historical or Vintage Recording: Johnny Shines, The Blues Came Falling Down, Live 1973 (2020); Little Richard, Southern Child (2021)
    • Websitecherylpawelski.com

    Cheryl Pawelski (born April 11, 1966 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)[1] is an American record producer and record-company executive. Since 2010, she has been one of the founder/owners of Omnivore Recordings, a Los Angeles-based record label specializing in historical releases, reissues and previously unissued vintage recordings, as well as select releases of new music.[4][5][6][7][8]

    Early life

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    Pawelski is the oldest child of a family from Milwaukee. Her father worked in manufacturing and is a longtime musician who regularly volunteered as a piano player at a Milwaukee hospital.[1][9] Her grandmother worked at a local department store which sold records, and encouraged Pawelski to begin a music collection at an early age.[2] Another had pursued a career as a singer before working in banking, and also encouraged her to seek a musical career.[10]

    Pawelski attended Pius XI High School in Milwaukee,[11] and graduated from Marquette University in 1989.[12] After college but before moving to Los Angeles to begin her career in the music industry, Pawelski worked at a Milwaukee record store, Radio Doctors, to learn about record labels and distribution.[13][14] A musician herself, Pawelski played in several bands.[1]

    Career

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    Prior to co-founding Omnivore Recordings, Pawelski held positions at EMI-Capitol Records, Concord Music Group and Rhino Entertainment, and worked as a consulting producer for EMI-Capitol Music, Warner Strategic Marketing/Rhino, Rhino Handmade, iTunes, Sony Legacy, Rykodisc, Universal Music Group, BMG and others.[15]

    Pawelski has supervised recordings, reissues and boxed sets for a wide variety of artists including The Band, The Beach Boys, Big Star, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, The Staple Singers, Rod Stewart, Richard Thompson, Townes Van Zandt, Wilco, Hank Williams Sr. and Warren Zevon. She has also produced or overseen several reissues of film soundtrack albums, including Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Fiddler on the Roof, Raging Bull, Shutter Island, Up in the Air and Woodstock.

    Pawelski’s board work has included positions as both a governor and a trustee of The Recording Academy, as well as board work or advisory board positions for The Blues Foundation, Women In Vinyl, The Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy, The Center For Recorded Music, ,[16] Farm Aid Development Advisory Council,[13] and Joey’s Song.[17][18]

    An inveterate collector of music and memorabilia, Pawelski holds a vast personal archive. A portion of her LP collection formed the core of the exhibit Spaced Out! The Final Frontier In Album Covers, which opened at Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, and also showed at The Museum at Bethel Woods in New York. The exhibit featured 117 space-themed albums released from 1940 to 1969.[14][19][1][20]

    Other work

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    Pawelski wrote the foreword for Derrick Bang's 2020 book Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970: A History and Discography, published by McFarland.[21]

    Awards and nominations

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    Pawelski has won four Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album: In 2014, for producing Hank Williams' The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, in 2021 for co-producing Mister Rogers' It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers, in 2023 for co-producing Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition), and in 2024 for co-producing Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos. She received Grammy nominations for the box sets Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly, Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968 and Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm.[22][23]

    Pawelski won a 2017 Blues Music Award in the category of Historical Album of the Year, for producing the Bobby Rush box set Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush.[24]

    Pawelski won Blues Blast Magazine's Blues Blast Music Award for Best Historical or Vintage Recording in both 2020 and 2021, for, respectively, Johnny Shines' The Blues Came Falling Down, Live 1973[25] and Little Richard's Southern Child.[26]

    In 2022, Pawelski was the recipient of the Diederich College of Communication's Professional Achievement Award, given annually to Marquette University alumni.[27]

    Personal life

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    In 2008, Pawelski married Audrey Bilger, a literature professor and (since 2019) president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.[20]

    References

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    1. ^ a b c d e Mehr, Bob (2007-03-11). "Saving Stax: Legendary catalog gets the Pawelski treatment, as major reissue campaign begins this week". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    2. ^ a b Dan Kimpel (2018-01-28). "Season 1 Episode 5: Cheryl Pawelski". Storyophonic (Podcast). Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    3. ^ Lydgate, Chris (August 30, 2019). "Scholar. Writer. Teacher. President. There was no script for Audrey Bilger's career. So she wrote her own". Reed Magazine.
    4. ^ Wogahn, Carter (2014-07-18). "Omnivore Promotes Music Legacy". Music Connection. Glendale, California. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    5. ^ Jackson, Andrea (2013-11-21). "Record Producer Cheryl Pawelski: Trailblazer, Innovator". Bluestockings Magazine. Providence, Rhode Island. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    6. ^ Putnam, Rob (2016-02-19). "Producer Crosstalk: Cheryl Pawelski". Music Connection. Glendale, California. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    7. ^ Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica (2018-11-21). "From Obsession To Profession: How Omnivore Recordings' Cheryl Pawelski Keeps Legendary Music Alive". She Shreds Magazine. Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    8. ^ "Power Player: Cheryl Pawelski". AllAccess.com. July 26, 2016. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    9. ^ Corinthios, Deandra (2015-10-05). "Piano man is "part of the hospital family," making a difference at West Allis hospital". Fox 6 WITI (TV). Milwaukee. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
    10. ^ Turner, Andy (December 10, 2020). "Saving The Music: Producer Cheryl Pawelski Preserves Historical Recordings". Wisconsin Life (Wisconsin Public Radio/PBS Wisconsin. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
    11. ^ Snyder, Molly (2002-12-04). "Milwaukeean finds "Filthy Mouth" in L.A." On Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
    12. ^ "Class Notes". Marquette Magazine. 2015-08-11. p. 36. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
    13. ^ a b Frater, Bill (2017-12-22). "Exploring Across Genres with Cheryl Pawelski of Omnivore Recordings". No Depression. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    14. ^ a b Carney, Jennifer (2012-11-26). "Omnivore Records' Cheryl Pawelski: The TVD Interview". The Vinyl District. Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    15. ^ "Meet Cheryl Pawelski of Omnivore Entertainment Group". VoyageLA. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    16. ^ "Meet the Team". Center For Recorded Music. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
    17. ^ "The Cause". Joey’s Song. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
    18. ^ "The Popdose Interview: Michael Gomoll of Joey's Song". Popdose. 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
    19. ^ Sparks, Leonard (2011-04-11). "Bethel Woods takes a space-age sleeve journey". Times Herald-Record. Middletown, New York. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    20. ^ a b Cohen, Jason (2019-10-23). "Is Reed College's New President Too Cool to Be a University Administrator?". Portland Monthly. Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    21. ^ Derrick Bang (1 April 2020). Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970: A History and Discography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3988-8.
    22. ^ "Artist: Cheryl Pawelski". The Grammys. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
    23. ^ Tanzilo, Bobby (2006-12-10). "Pawelski earns Grammy nomination". On Milwaukee. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
    24. ^ "Blues Music Awards: The best of the best, in Memphis". Elmore Magazine. New York City. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
    25. ^ "2020 Blues Blast Music Award Winners". Blues Blast Magazine. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
    26. ^ "2021 Blues Blast Music Award Winners". Blues Blast Magazine. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
    27. ^ "Professional Achievement Award: Cheryl A. Pawelski, Comm '89". Marquette University. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
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