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A memory from the summer of 1966: Across the Top 40 airwaves, an insistent drum beat led off a …
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A memory from the summer of 1966: Across the Top 40 airwaves, an insistent drum beat led off a …
A new collection from Bear Family features the session legend’s early singles as a marquee artist
When record producer-engineer Elliot Mazer died of a heart attack at his home in San Francisco on Feb. 7, at the age of 79, he left behind a rich musical legacy. That includes important contributions in the ’60s and ’70s to Nashville’s evolution as a recording center. Most notably, Mazer helped develop the genre-busting session supergroup Area Code 615, launched Linda Ronstadt’s hit-making career, produced Neil Young’s most commercially successful album, and helped establish Quadrafonic Sound Studio as ground zero for the growing number of rock and folk sessions in the city in the 1...