Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers

This Book gathers interviews with the people behind records by some of music’s biggest names. Producers here are engineering sessions, choosing songs, guiding singers, fixing lyrics, booking studios, playing parts, shaping mixes, and keeping everything moving toward something compelling.

Interviewees have worked with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Public Enemy, Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Bob Dylan, P!nk, U2, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Wu-Tang Clan, David Bowie, T.Rex, Johnny Cash, the Moody Blues, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, the Replacements, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Tom Petty, Thin Lizzy, and Sabrina Carpenter.

The interviews come from Tape Op, founded in 1996 by editor Larry Crane. Alongside publisher John Baccigaluppi, he helped build a huge archive on recording, still active today as a print magazine with the highest circulation of any recording magazine in the world.