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ILLUSTRATIONS Photographs beginning after page 102 1 Chet Atkins and engineer Bill Porter in RCA Studio B, Nashville 2 Ralph S. Peer 3 Owen Bradley in his Quonset Hut Recording Studio, Nashville 4 Harold Bradley 5 Jack Clement 6 Ken Nelson and Wanda Jackson 7 Sid Feller and Ray Charles. 8 Connie Smith and Bob Ferguson, 1964 9 Shelby Singleton 10 Jerry Kennedy 11 Bob Irwin 12 Jimmy Bowen 13 Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Johnston Photographs beginning after page 206 14 Jerry Wexler and Willie Nelson at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio 15 Waylon Jennings and Tompall Glaser at Hillbilly Central, Nashville 16 Steve Cropper 17 Allen Reynolds 18 Jim Rooney 19 Tony Brown 20 Pete Anderson 21 Jim Ed Norman 22 Stephen Bruton 23 Blake Chancey 24 Gurf Morlix 25 Paul Worley 26 Eric “Roscoe” Ambel 27 Jon Langford 28 Jack Clement and Sam Phillips in Sun Studio, Memphis, 1990s 29 Ken Nelson and Cliffie Stone ...

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