Jimmy Bowen and Jim Jerome: Rough Mix (Simon & Schuster)
Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, 5 January 1998
JIMMY BOWEN is the music-biz sharpie who made Nashville's country industry what it is today -- a multi-billion-dollar-generating machine. For that, he's both loved and hated.
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