Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Backbeat
Pages: 248
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-1-4930-5613-2 • Hardback • March 2021 • $29.95 • (£25.00)
978-1-4930-6515-8 • Paperback • June 2023 • $17.95 • (£13.99) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-1-4930-5614-9 • eBook • March 2021 • $28.50 • (£19.99)
Bill Schnee is an internationally renowned producer, engineer, and mix master. He has engineered and/or produced an extremely wide variety of artists that include Three Dog Night, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Huey Lewis, Pablo Cruise, Steely Dan, the Jacksons, Marvin Gaye, Boz Scaggs, Dire Straits, Ringo Starr (with all the Beatles), Carly Simon, the Pointer Sisters, and Whitney Houston, including her mega-single "I Will Always Love You." Schnee has worked on dozens of Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning albums, and has been personally nominated eleven times for the Best Engineered Recording Grammy and has won twice for Steely Dan's Aja and Gaucho. He currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife, Sallie.
One of the top sound engineers in the game invites us to join him at his recording desk in the studio with the artists and players who made a thousand records with him. His stories, insights, and humour make for a brilliant read.
— Mark Knopfler, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
If you love his records and the behind-the-scenes stories of how they were made, you’ll love this book. This is inside stuff everyone wants to know about, from a guy who helped make it all happen.
— Huey Lewis, singer, songwriter, and actor