[2][3] Poss acquired full control of Sugar Hill in 1980 and owned the label until 1998, when he sold it to the Welk Music Group, owner of Vanguard Records.

In 2006, Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.

[5] In 2008, Welk Music Group appointed EMI as distributor of its labels including Sugar Hill.

[6] Sugar Hill continued to operate from Durham N.C. until 2007, when Poss moved the label to Nashville, Tennessee.

[7] Among the many notable artists who have released albums on the label are Nickel Creek, Doc Watson, Townes Van Zandt, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Sam Bush and Dolly Parton.