(1942-08-10) August 10, 1942 (age 81) Florence, Alabama, United States
Genres
Rock, pop, country
Occupation(s)
Record producer, musician
Musical artist
Norbert Auvin Putnam (born August 10, 1942) is an American musician, studio owner and record producer who was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.[1][2][3][4] He got his start as a bass player in the studio house band in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and from there was recruited to move to Nashville in 1965. He became a successful session player on recordings by artists including Roy Orbison, Al Hirt, Henry Mancini, Dan Fogelberg, Linda Ronstadt, J. J. Cale, Tony Joe White, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Michael Card, Ian & Sylvia and Bobby Goldsboro.[1] Putnam published a memoir in 2017 entitled Music Lessons Vol. 1: a Musical Memoir, in which he chronicled recording sessions with Elvis Presley and other artists.[5]
He became involved with music publishing in his mid-career and in 1971 built Quadraphonic Studios, a popular Nashville recording studio known as simply "Quad" by locals. Quadraphonic's success was in part because of Putnam's interest and experimentation in the technological details of sound recording. He retired from actively playing sessions in the early 1970s to be a producer. In this role, he is credited with broadening Nashville as a recording center by bringing in non-country acts such as Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez and Dan Fogelberg.
^ abKelly, Neil (11 September 2013). "For Ol' Times Sake: An Interview with Norbert Putnam About Elvis". PopMatters.
^Rick Clark."Norbert Putnam." Archived 2007-12-19 at the Wayback Machine MixOnline.com. 1 November 2000. Accessed 1 October 2007.
^Dan Daley. "Producer: Norbert Putnam – The Other Side Of Nashville." SoundOnSound.com. September 2003. Accessed 1 October 2007.
^Robert McFarland, Jr. "Norbert Putnam." Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine Delta Business Journal. November 2004. Accessed 1 October 2007.
^Putnam, Norbert (2017). Music lessons : a musical memoir. Vol. 1. Nashville: Thimbleton House Media. ISBN 978-1-61850-090-8.
Norbert Auvin Putnam (born August 10, 1942) is an American musician, studio owner and record producer who was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame...
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Gulf and Western Length 2:51 Label ABC Songwriter(s) Jimmy Buffett Producer(s) NorbertPutnam Jimmy Buffett singles chronology Audio sample file help...
was recorded with Muscle Shoals/Nashville musicians David Briggs, NorbertPutnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" and "Polk...
drive from Florence. It was then that Jerry first met David Briggs and NorbertPutnam who agreed to form a band. They called it the "Mark V" and Carrigan's...
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