The Encyclopedia of Record Producers: An Indispensable Guide to the Most Important Record Producers in Music History

by Eric Olsen, Paul Verna, Eric Olsen

From industry pros to pop music fans, from historians to librarians, anyone seeking information about record producers and their recordings will relish this comprehensive volume. Here are hundreds of the industry's most active producers of pop music, accompanied by profiles and interviews, as well as a selected discography for each. 150 illustrations.

Genres: Music

893 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

I was born and raised in Oakland—go A’s! California. I'm a journalist, editor, and occasional novelist. My sixth non-fiction book, We Wanted to be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was released August 1, 2011. It's a series of conversations about writing, the creative process, the lit biz, and more with nearly 30 classmates and teachers at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the mid-70s. Among them are TC Boyle, Jane Smiley, John Irving, Sandra Cisneros, Allan Gurganus, Michelle Huneven, Joe Haldeman, and Jayne Anne Phillips. My co-editor is Glenn Schaeffer.

As a journalist I write mostly about culture, also health, fitness, sports, and medicine. But I'll write about anything if it's interesting, and I have. For several years I was an executive editor at Time Inc. Health in San Francisco, a TimeWarner company. Later, I was an affiliate associate professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where I ran the American branch of the International Institute of Modern Letters, which advocated on behalf of censored and persecuted writers.

I received an MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where I was a Teaching/Writing Fellow. After Iowa, I was awarded a James A. Michener Fellowship for fiction.

I always have a mystery novel or two in the works.

Reviews

[Bryan]

A good reference for music geeks who read liner notes like they're the Torah.