Interviews

On Wednesday March 12th Blue Note President Don Was sat down with me to talk about the Blue Note vinyl reissues he's producing for the label. He's a music executive who is also an acclaimed musician and producer. A Detroit native and University of Michigan Ann Arbor drop out, Was's first group Was (Not Was) released four commercially successful albums during the 1980's.

He's produced and recorded with everyone from The Rolling Stones to Solomon Burke and of course he produced Bonnie Raitt's classic album Nick of Time 1990's "Album of the Year" Grammy Award winner.

He was 1995's "Producer of the Year" Grammy Award winner and he produced Rolling Stones albums Voodoo Lounge, Stripped, Bridges to Babylon, Forty Licks, Licks Live and A Bigger Bang. He also was responsible for the reissue of Exile on Main Street, but we won't hold that one against him!

He made up for that one by directing and producing 1997's Brian Wilson documentary "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" and he played bass in the back up band for this year's Grammy salute to The Beatles—lucky man!

Was was appointed president of Blue Note Records in January of 2012, succeeding industry veteran (and coincidentally my neighbor) Bruce Lundvall. Clearly he's been associated with better productions than this GoPro on the head one, and we appreciate his allowing us to "air" these two low budget productions.