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Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and former owner of the Witchseason production company. Boyd was instrumental in launching the careers of Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and The Incredible String Band.[1]
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Records produced or co-produced by Joe Boyd
- 3 References
- 4 Further reading
- 5 External links
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Career
Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] He first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University, and in 1964 made his first visit to Britain, returning the following year to establish an overseas office of Elektra Records. He was eventually to settle in London.
He became best-known for his work with British
folk and
folk rock artists, including the
Incredible String Band,
Martin Carthy,
Nick Drake,
John Martyn,
Fairport Convention and
Richard Thompson. Some of these were produced by his own production company, Witchseason. He also co-founded London's
UFO Club and worked with UFO regulars
Pink Floyd (producing their first single
Arnold Layne) and the
Soft Machine.
Boyd returned to the States in the 1970s, assembling footage for the eponymous film documentary on Jimi Hendrix (1973) and producing records by Maria Muldaur and Kate and Anna McGarrigle among others. He went on to found his own Hannibal label (now a part of Rykodisc) which released records by the likes of Richard Thompson and various discs of so-called world music. Boyd also produced R.E.M.'s third album Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), and records by Billy Bragg and 10,000 Maniacs.
He was Executive Producer for the 1988 feature film
Scandal, starring
John Hurt and
Bridget Fonda about Britain's Profumo Scandal. He left Hannibal/Ryko in 2001 and has written a book about making music in the 1960s called "White Bicycles", published in May 2006 by Serpents Tail Press in the UK.
Records produced or co-produced by Joe Boyd
References
Further reading
- Boyd, Joe, White Bicyles - Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. 2006. ISBN 1-85242-910-0
