TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarrett,Michael
TI  - Producing country: the inside story of the great recordings 
T2  - Music/interview
SN  - 9780819574633 (hbk.) :
U1  - 781.6'42149 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Middletown
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Country music
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - History
KW  - Sound recording executives and producers
KW  - United States
KW  - Interviews
N2  - 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 Lefty Frizzell. Cowboy Jack Clement took the initiative to record Jerry Lee Lewis. When Ray Charles said he wanted to record a country-and-western album, Sid Feller gathered songs for his consideration. The author's extensive interviews with music makers offer the fullest account ever of the producer's role in creating country music
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