Paul Rothchild Speaks, March 1967
Book Excerpt by Paul Williams, Outlaw Blues, 1967
This interview was taped in Englewood, New Jersey, in March 1967, shortly after the release of the first Doors album, which Paul Rothchild produced. Last names ...

The Musical Guts Behind Spector
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1970
PHIL SPECTOR is alive and well and living on Sunset Boulevard in his beloved Los Angeles. He's producing records again, having come out of retirement because ...

AUDIO: Tom Dowd (1971)
Interview by Charlie Gillett, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1971
The Land of a Thousand Drifters: Charlie Gillett talks with arguably the greatest recording engineer in rock and soul history about the early days with Atlantic, ...

Allen Toussaint
Profile by Charlie Gillett, Fusion, July 1971
IF BRITAIN HAD a good system of radio stations, the history of the world might have been at least a little different. ...

Harold Battiste: All for One – A Study in Frustration and Black Organisation
Interview by Charlie Gillett, Cream, September 1971
HAROLD BATTISTE has worked on a lot of very big hits, but although you probably have some of them, it's unlikely you'll be able to place ...

The Producers: Peter Asher
Interview by Harold Bronson, Hit Parader, 1972
HIT PARADER: From Peter and Gordon, how did you get into producing? ...

Phil Spector
Profile by Richard Williams, Let It Rock, October 1972
ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MOMENTS IN late-Sixties rock comes at the beginning of 'To Be Alone With You' on Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album. As ...

Willie Mitchell
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, June 1973
WILLIE MITCHELL. His name is synonymous with the rich brass sound that has become known worldwide as the Memphis Sound. For years, Willie as been a ...

What do Bowie, Elton, and Mantovani have in common?
Interview by Harold Bronson, Music World, June 1973
I DON'T KNOW why so many of the stars take up residence at Hollywood's Chauteau Marmont Hotel on the Sunset Strip. Perhaps it's because of its ...

Allen Toussaint, Producing the New Orleans Feel
Interview by Barbara Charone, NME, July 1973
QUESTION: What could Alvin Lee, Frankie Miller, Mac 'Dr. John' Rebennack, Robbie Robertson and Lee Dorsey possibly have in common? Answer: Allen ...

Allen Toussaint: Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, July 1973
THEY KNOW, of course, which one is Dr John. The Swiss photographers huddle around the stage, clicking their Nikons like American tourists determined to capture Rome ...

Bob Ezrin: The Square And The Faggots
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, August 1973
"DETACHMENT. Yes, that's it exactly. We were both talking about that. Lou said last night: 'This album is an exercise in detachment and apathy'. I mean, ...

Standing in the Shadow of Rock: Shadow Morton, Pt. 1
Interview by Lenny Kaye, Melody Maker, March 1974
‘I don’t consider myself a good producer. I’m one of the best.’ Shadow Morton, producer of the Dolls, talks to Lenny Kaye. ...

Tom Newman: The Man Who Taped the Tubular Bells
Interview by Fred Dellar, NME, February 1975
WHEN IT COMES to tape, who better to talk to than the guy who did the 2,000 over-dubs on Tubular Bells, engineer Tom ...

Phil Spector: He's A Rebel
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, May 1975
THE OCCASION is Professor Phil Spector's guest lecture at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College record producing seminar. Last time Phil talked at the school was in ...

A Million Dollar Friendship: An Interview with Gus Dudgeon
Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, August 1975
NARY A POTENTIOMETER breathed a word at the Caribou Ranch high in the Rocky Mountains. And the baffles relaxed as the massive array of equipment was ...

Parsons Knows: The Tale of Alan Parsons and Edgar Allan Poe
Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, July 1976
THE CONCEPT ALBUM, contemptuously rejected by many critics as the great bore of rock, has returned, and this work of producer Alan Parsons, supported by a ...

Phil Spector
Comment by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, November 1976
BY NOW we must all, surely, regard the coming of rock's New Wave as beneficial. Whether the currently fashionable bands prove to be the real thing, ...

Cult Figure Cuts Clash To Suit American Dream Machine
Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, February 1978
SANDY PEARLMAN IS A BRISK and lively talker. He can probably offer an animated dissertation of any number of irregular topics, ranging from advancements in the ...

Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, May 1978
ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are 'evolutionary', ...

Nick Lowe: This Is Your Life
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1978
Pete Silverton assembles a few views of Basher — man, myth and magic ...

The Ramones: Ramones Go Gold?
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1978
TOMMY RAMONE don't wanna be a pinhead no more (that's assuming you thought he was a pinhead in the first place – in which case more ...

Tyla Gang: Moon Proof (Beserkley)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, November 1978
THERE ARE certain musicians whose burden in life is to carry the can for mediocre past. Sean Tyla, late of Ducks Deluxe, is suffering from such ...

The Clashmen Meet The Pearlman
Report and Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, February 1979
"It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever I done, that's for sure." I had Sandy Pearlman, Record Producer, on the phone from some unnamed restaurant on ...

Chinn & Chapman: Ballroom Blitz & Hearts of Glass
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, March 1979
Mike Chapman began with Mud and Sweet, disappeared when glitter-rock went cold, and came back to make the new wave palatable for America with the Knack ...

'Cowboy' Jack Clement: The Nut With The Midas Touch
Profile and Interview by Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, October 1979
RECENTLY, the successful Nashville-based record producer and songwriter, sometime singer, and failed movie mogul. Jack Clement, made his first visit to Europe. At the age of ...

Guy Stevens: “There Are Only Two Phil Spectors In The World And I Am One Of Them”
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1979
Selected tableaux from The Guy Stevens Story. ...

A Short History of the Rock Guitar
Overview by Charles Shaar Murray, The History of Rock, 1981
BEFORE THE ADVENT OF ROCK, guitars were just guitars. Amplification made guitars more flexible, more assertive and more prominent, but even so the electric guitar maintained ...

Ted Templeman on Captain Beefheart
Interview by David Gans, BAM, September 1981
What did you expect when you did Captain Beefheart's Clear Spot? ...

Phil Spector: To Know Him Is To Love Him
Retrospective by Greg Shaw, The History of Rock, 1982
So much has been written about Phil Spector, yet he still remains an enigma. ...

Bill Szymczyk
Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THERE CAN'T BE too many people whose surnames have eight letters, none of which is a vowel, but it hardly needs to be said that there ...

Tony Visconti Talks
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers' (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way that George Martin is known for his work with the Beatles, anyone who has ever inspected the small print on the ...

Tom Dowd
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers, 1982
CAREERS IN POPULAR music are often notoriously short, particularly in the most creative areas of activity, therefore it is of more than passing interest to note ...

Mickie Most
Profile and Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers, 1982
THERE HAVE been numerous record producers who have started their own label, including Phil Spector, Richard Perry, Tony Visconti and Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. ...

Chris Thomas
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
THE END OF 1981 sees Chris Thomas, ex-student of the Royal Academy of Music and also producer of the earliest (and best) Sex Pistols' records, at ...

Leiber and Stoller
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
ELVIS PRESLEY was the King of Rock'n'Roll – anyone who might care to dispute that should try reading another book, for without Presley, neither we, nor ...

Roy Thomas Baker
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
RUNNING NORTH off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is a steep road which twists and turns upwards into the Hollywood ...

Phil Spector
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
WHENEVER THE subject of record producers is discussed by anyone born before 1960, one name will always surface, that of Phil Spector. ...

Glyn Johns
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers' (BBC Books), 1982
WHILE THE NAMES of George Martin and Mickie Most are probably the best known among British record producers, Glyn Johns was making hit records with rock ...

Richard Perry
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers', BBC Books, 1982
IF ANY PRODUCER could be said to have an instantly identifiable sound, aside from the obvious case of Phil Spector, it would be Richard Perry. His ...

George Martin
Profile and Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the first American record producers, that accolade in Britain belongs to the man whose ...

Todd Rundgren
Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers' (BBC Books) , 1982
WHEN SIFTING through the potential candidates for a book such as this, it is obviously essential to reflect the present and future, as well as the ...

The Pedal Steel Guitar
Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, The History of Rock, 1983
Pedal steel power from country pickers ...

Marshall Crenshaw Has A Field Day
Report and Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, August 1983
WHAT A GUY. That phrase, always delivered with a flatter-than-thou Midwestern twang, is often bandied about within the Crenshaw camp. ...

Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell
Obituary by Fred Dellar, NME, March 1985
ROCK LOST another legendary face-moulder on 9 March, when Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell died at his home in Hacienda Heights, near ...

AUDIO: Willie Mitchell, Memphis Magician (1985)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, October 1985
The legendary Memphis producer talks about the rise of Southern Soul and the Memphis Sound, meeting and producing Al Green and making all those fabulous hits ...

AUDIO: Chips Moman (1985)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1985
The legendary producer gives a history of Memphis R&B, touching on (in no particular order) Stax, James Carr, Dan Penn, Elvis, the fading of the Memphis ...

Steve Hoffman: The First Genius Of CD
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, October 1987
MCA's Remastering Genius Discusses His Archival Work And His New Position At Dunhill Compact Classics ...

Sound Wars: M/A/R/R/S Vs. Stock, Aitken, Waterman
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1987
At what point does sampling cross the fine line between flattery and theft? The battle between Stock Aitken Waterman and M/A/R/R/S may be the first case ...

Remixing: Works in Progress
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 1988
Remixed albums are big business. Call in a remix engineer and squeeze more sales out of the same songs. Ideal for injecting added danceability. Useful for ...

Riding On The Freeway Of Love With Narada Michael Walden
Interview by John Mendelsohn, San Francisco Magazine, June 1988
Grammies, Platinum Albums and Adulating Superstars Won’t Deter Him From Being A Regular Artist Kind Of Guy...Maybe ...

Phil Spector: Jack Nitzsche remembers the Wall of Sound
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Goldmine, June 1988
NOW IN HIS 30th year in the music industry, Jack Nitzsche is one of the great composers and arrangers of our time. In this decade alone, ...

Hate Male
Interview by Len Brown, NME, July 1988
The Smiths were "like a life-support machine" to Morrissey. Without STEPHEN STREET – co-writer/producer of Viva Hate – it's conceivable that Les Miserable himself would either ...

Mitch Easter of Let's Active
Profile and Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, September 1988
"AS A KID, I was sort of a science nerd," says Mitch Easter. Despite his Einstein-like beginnings, this young boy from Greensboro, North Carolina would later ...

Joe Boyd: Elephant Man
Profile and Interview by Len Brown, unpublished, March 1989
IN AN UPSTAIRS storeroom at Hannibal Records HQ, the quarterback-sized Joe Boyd sits on a sack. Around him are boxes, piled high, brimming with the records ...

Sampling: Name That Tune
Report by Mark Kemp, Option, May 1989
"You see you misunderstood
A sample's just a tactic.
It's a portion of my method,
A tool in fact.
It's only of importance
When I make ...

Sampling: A Creative Tool or License to Steal?
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, August 1989
Guitarist Leo Nocentelli vividly remembers his first exposure to sampling in 1982. "I was on a session and the guy pressed one note on the keyboard ...

Quincy Jones: Mr Jones, I Presume!
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, April 1990
THE THREE DUMBEST questions you could possibly ask this month are, "Do the ambulance workers deserve more pay?", "Is Mike Gatting a pillock?" and "Does Quincy ...

Was (Not Was): Hitmen
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1990
THERE ARE SEVEN of us round the microphone, and I, for one, am a little nervous. I should be, too: three of the voices present are ...

Tina Turner: Private Dancer
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Classic Albums (BBC Books), 1991
IN 1983, AT THE age of 45, Tina Turner could lay claim to a handful of hit singles, the first of which had come in 1960 ...

Hank Shocklee: Turntable Terrorist
Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, May 1991
WHEN NEW YORK hiphop filtered down from Harlem and the Bronx into the suburbs of Long Island around the turn of the last decade, a young ...

Bill Inglot: An Analog Heart In A Digital Domain
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, August 1991
THE NAME Bill Inglot became synonymous with the CD medium in the earliest days of the new digital technology. Working most often with Rhino Records, a ...

An Interview with Martin Hannett, 29th May 1989
Interview by Jon Savage, Touch-Vagabond, 1992
JS: How did you come across Joy ...

CDs: Perfect Sound? Forever?
Report by Johnny Black, Q, July 1992
The sound of compact discs was hailed as a technical miracle. But is it? Classic albums get re-issued on CD and we're told they're better. But ...

All Mix & No Master
Essay by David Toop, The Wire, September 1992
"Whoever doesn't like what I did, 20 years from now they can go back and redo it."
Teo Macero, discussing his method of recording Miles Davis in ...

Steve Albini: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, November 1992
Big Black (1981-1987) were one of the most influential bands of the Eighties. Industrial music, 'skronk' rock, New York noisecore, British indiepop, Nirvana, Ministry, Suede, Bum ...

In Pursuit of Pure Sound: The Story of the Audiophile Record Label, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs
Report by Tom Graves, American Way, May 1993
HERB BELKIN, EXECUTIVE vice president of ABC records at the time, remembers the day in 1977 when two young audio engineers came into his office with ...

Jerry Wexler: Crossing The Divide
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, May 1993
This is the man who christened rhythm and blues, who rescued Aretha Franklin and made her a star, who went to the South and came back ...

The Hard Golden Tone of Shellac: An Interview with Steve Albini
Interview by Ian Christe, Warp, 1994
MICROPHONE CONNOISSEUR and billiardsman Steve Albini has recorded albums for the Pixies, Nirvana, the Jesus Lizard, and PJ Harvey. He doesn’t know when to keep ...

Everybody's A Musician: Interactive CD-ROMS Encourage Listeners To Get In The Act
Essay by Charles Bermant, Chicago Tribune, November 1994
IN 2019, THOSE WHO observe the 50th anniversary Woodstock celebration from the comfort of their own homes probably will have the richer experience. ...

Various Artists: It's Hard to Believe It - the Amazing World of Joe Meek (Razor & Tie)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Spin, 1995
WHO WAS Joe Meek? A cut-price Spector crafting pocket symphonies in his North London studio for a stable of dodgy pre-Beatles combos? Yes, but the parallel ...

Jesse Stone Tells His Story
Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1995
AT 94, JESSE STONE, arranger, bandleader, and song writer extraordinaire, has spanned the entire 20th century of African-American music. ...

Brian Eno
Interview by Andy Gill, Mojo, June 1995
You’d like your album smoothly airbrushed with the minimum fuss, and expertly streamlined to slot into a tidy marketing profile? Don’t phone Brian Eno then. "I’m ...

Willie Mitchell: Tell’Em Willie Boy Was Here
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Mojo, June 1995
Willie Mitchell, maestro of the Memphis soul sound that gave the world Al Green, has his life’s work celebrated by the box set Hi Times: The ...

In a Moog Mood
Guide by John McCready, Mojo, 1997
UNLIKE THE Hoover, a similarly undisputed brand leader which  describes any vacuum cleaner as all vacuum cleaners do the same thing, all synthesizers are, over thirty ...

Dixie Fryer: Jim Dickinson
Profile and Interview by Robert Gordon, Mojo, 1997
"WE WERE LIVING in Chicago and I was about five years old. Our apartment overlooked Lake Michigan and the front room was glassed-in on three sides. ...

AUDIO: Mickie Most (1997)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 1997
Purveyor of pap, or pop genius? The Rak man on 'House of the Rising Sun', Herman's Hermits, 'Hi Ho Silver Lining', Donovan and lots ...

In The Studio With Oasis
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1997
An interview with Oasis producer Owen Morris ...

Bert Berns
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Mojo, March 1998
He was, said Jerry Wexler, "a paunchy, nervous cat with a shock of unruly black hair". He looked like a vaguely disreputable cross between Gene Vincent ...

Ten Questions For Jack Nitzsche
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Mojo, April 1998
HOW DID YOU first meet Phil Spector? ...

Arif Mardin: A Man For All Musical Seasons
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, July 1998
READING THROUGH the list of artists that producer/arranger Arif Mardin has worked with is like looking at a chapter of history from American pop music. Consider ...

Peter Asher: A World Of Sound
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, April 1999
"I ALWAYS found the studio a fascinating place," says producer Peter Asher, "and the process of assembling a track and figuring out what each musician should ...

Bobby Sheen
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 2000
WHENEVER HE MADE records under his own name, Bobby Sheen, who has died aged 57, was out of luck. But as Bob B Soxx, the ostensible ...

Jimi Hendrix: Black Secret Technology
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix wasn't just the original firestarter, all flash and dazzle. He was a scientist of sound. ...

Legendary Music Arranger and Composer, Jack Nitzsche Dies
Obituary by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, September 2000
Legendary arranger and award-winning composer Jack Nitzsche died at Queen Of Angels hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. , on August 25, 2000. Nitzsche’s death was attributed ...

Tuning the Key of the Universe: Jack Nitzsche Remembered
Profile and Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2001
Jack Nitzsche, who died last August at the age of 63, was a seminal but shadowy figure in rock ’n’ roll since the early '60s. Here, ...

The Jim Marshall Interview
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2001
In a rare and candid interview, the man behind the legendary amplifier talks to Joe Matera about the Marshall ...

Brian Eno: "So Why Are We Doing This?"
Interview by Andy Gill, Mojo, May 2001
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT, observing Brian Eno's early career as furnisher of funny noises to the original Roxy Music, to predict that three decades on ...

The Temptations' Final Frontier
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Mojo, August 2001
MOTOWN KING BERRY GORDY was royally miffed. None of his subjects could come up with a hit for the act many considered the finest in his ...

Gary Usher
Interview by Gene Sculatti, Scram, 2002
Gary Usher In Conversation With Gene Sculatti January 1971 ...

Arise, Sir George: The Man Behind the Beatles
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2002
BEST KNOWN as the man who produced The Beatles, Sir George Martin was there at the beginning of the British pop revolution and went on to ...

Inventing The New Funk
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, March 2002
Pair the Neptunes and Kelis and what you get is state-of-the-art groove music ...

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars: 30th Anniversary Edition
Review and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, July 2002
"I'm really just a Photostat machine. I pour out what has already been fed in. I merely reflect what is going on around me"
– David ...

The Grim Reporter
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, November 2002
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten. ...

Seven Inches Of Heaven
Report by Pete Paphides, The Guardian, November 2002
For adolescents, it was a thrill – the first music they owned. Singles survive in the CD age as bootlegs and indie specials. Their covers alone ...

Phil Spector's Ghosts: The Spooky World Of The Greatest Producer In Pop Music
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, slate.com, February 2003
FOR OBSERVERS of Hollywood, it's been irresistible: life imitating the movies once again. The death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in Phil Spector's Alhambra chateau on ...

Pop's Lost Genius: Phil Spector
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Telegraph Magazine, February 2003
PHIL SPECTOR PRODUCED some of the greatest pop hits of all time, from ‘Be My Baby’ to ‘Imagine’. Notoriously eccentric in his heyday, his slow retreat ...

The Mad Director: Phil Spector and the Sound of Walls
Guide by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, March 2003
HAD PHIL SPECTOR accomplished nothing more than recording The Ronettes singing ‘Be My Baby,’ he would deserve at least one get-out-of-jail-free ...

The Grim Reporter April 2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...

Spector's Heirs
Overview by Robin Eggar, unpublished, April 2003
THE CASTLE PERCHES atop a hill in suburban Alhambra reached after a long and winding climb. The huge iron gates appear to have been shut forever ...

Grim Reporter - July 2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, July 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...

I’m Stranded: Ed Kuepper on the Making of the Saints’ Classic Debut
Interview by Joe Matera, Australian Guitar, 2004
JM: You actually did two sessions for I’m Stranded. Did you use the same gear for both ...

Digital Magic Makes A Musician Of Me
Comment by Tom Cox, Daily Telegraph, May 2004
I THINK IT'S SAFE to say I'm never going to learn to play a musical instrument properly now. The realisation first came to me about three ...

AUDIO: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (2005)
Interview by David Nathan, Rock's Backpages Audio, 2005
The making of The Sound of Philadelphia: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff on the Philadelphia International label, and working with the diverse likes of Wilson Pickett, ...

Tony Visconti: Bolan, Bowie, Morrissey And Me
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, March 2006
"WHAT A LOT of people don't realise about Morrissey," says the producer of his new album, Tony Visconti, "is that he has a sense of humour. ...

AUDIO: T-Bone Burnett (2006)
Interview by Joel Selvin, Selvin On The City, KSAN 107.7, June 2006
T-Bone Burnett guests on Selvin On the City ( KSAN Underground Radio 107.7, San Francisco), talking about production, the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, ...

Geoff Emerick
Profile and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, June 2006
BESIDES GEORGE Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick worked on more Beatles sessions than any other individual. ...

George Martin
Interview by Jim Irvin, Mojo, January 2007
THE PENTHOUSE mixing room at the top of Abbey Road Studios. We await Sir George Martin, who is 30 minutes late. "This is most unlike him," ...

The Sound Of Sgt. Pepper
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, Mojo, January 2007
THE RECORD ALWAYS regarded as a harbinger of pop's future is full of old-fashioned sounds. These are, in order of appearance: a theatre orchestra tuning up, ...

Groovin': The Genius of Arif Mardin
Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Rhino Records, April 2007
ATLANTIC'S JERRY WEXLER called him The Pasha, aka "His Soulful Turkish Eminence". It was a typically Wexleresque reference to Arif Mardin's aristocratic background and manner. "Arif ...

Mitch Easter Interviewed: Perfect Sound Forever - The Director's Cut
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, unpublished, Summer 2007
NOTE: This is a vastly expanded version of the Mitch Easter feature, "Perfect Sound Forever," written for issue #76, of Magnet, published summer 2007. Interviews conducted ...

Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Nashville Skyline
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
JUNE 17th MARKS the 40th anniversary of the original Columbia Records release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album, produced by Bob ...

Soul Provider: Muscle Shoals keyboard legend Barry Beckett in His Own Words
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
NOTE: This is a pretty straight transcript of what the late Barry Beckett said to me in his new Warner Brothers office in Nashville in September ...

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: Bruce Swedien Remembers the Times with Michael Jackson
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, Summer 2009
HERE'S IRONY for you: there were several things timed for the release of Michael Jackson's London shows that were to provide testimony to the man's craft ...