This week on Episode 9 - Mr. David Ferguson, or Fergie, the legendary sound engineer and producer who started with Cowboy, Jack Clement, and worked with Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, John Prine, U2, Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers. Fergie has it done it all in Nashville so this week he sits down with Russ Zavitson and his ol' breakfast buddy, Harold Shedd. Sit back relax and enjoy this trip Behind the Shedd.
About Fergie:
Fergie's career began in 1980 when "Cowboy" Jack Clement hired him as a runner at Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, in Nashville, Tennessee, where Ferguson worked as an engineer after a couple of years. It was while working at Clement's studio in 1982 that Ferguson first met Johnny Cash.[1] Other artists that Ferguson worked with in the 1980s included Charley Pride, Eddy Arnold, and rock-n-roll band U2.[1] Ferguson appeared as himself in U2's 1988 film, Rattle and Hum, and portrayed his mentor and once real-life boss, Jack Clement in the 1989 biographical drama film Great Balls of Fire! about Jerry Lee Lewis.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Ferguson worked as the engineer on Johnny Cash's Grammy Award-winning American Recordings albums produced by Rick Rubin, beginning with American Recordings (1994) and continuing through American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010).
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