Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings

by Michael Jarrett

Book Overview

Legendary producers describe the making of country music's great recordings

Musicians make music. Producers make records. In the early days of recorded music, the producer was the "artists-and-repertoire man," or A&R man, for short. A powerful figure, the A&R man chose both who would record and what they would record. His decisions profoundly shaped our musical tastes. Don Law found country bluesman Robert Johnson and honky-tonk crooner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819574643
• ISBN13: 9780819574640
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"