Rick Blackburn
Rick Blackburn
Richard "Rick" Blackburnwas a Nashville music executive. He was a former president of Atlantic Records in Nashville and shared his skill with Mercury Records and Epic Records. Blackburn was known for hiring top artists like Ricky Van Shelton and George Jones and for dropping Johnny Cash off at Nashville Records around 1985 or 1986. He retired from the music industry in the 1990s and died in his Tennessee home of kidney failure...
masters ray
If you wanted to use Ray Charles, there was no negotiation. After about 10 years, the masters reverted to him.
contract cooked dinner good unusual
It's the most unusual contract I've ever done. He said, 'Look, I'm not going to need a lawyer. It's just going to be me and you.' He cooked dinner for me. He was a good cook, actually.
everybody sing town
Everybody in town wanted to sing with Ray.
hang later learned studio
I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We'd play chess. I later learned that was a real privilege.