Behind the Shedd

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 26 Harold, Brian, and Wade sit down with the iconic Nashville songwriter and producer, Bobby Braddock!  Some of Bobby's hits include: He Stopped Loving Her Today, Old Flames Have New Names, I Wanna Talk About Me, People Are Crazy, Texas Tornado, Time Marches On, I Don't Remember Loving You, Golden Ring, D-I-V-O-R-C-E,  and many others.   Bio: After arr...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 25 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with legendary Nashville super agent, Tony Conway. Bio: Tony opened his first talent agency in Lexington, KY. In 1975, he moved to Nashville, TN, and soon met renowned talent agent, Buddy Lee. Lee quickly took notice of the energetic and driven young Conway and asked him to come to work for him. That was the beginning...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 24 Harold, Russ, and Wade have chat with veteran Nashville agent, Blake McDaniel.   Bio: Blake McDaniel is a veteran of the entertainment world spending 24 years at the industry powerhouse Creative Artists Agency where he represented the top artists across multiple genres.  While at CAA, he also worked in the crossover space creating, packaging and sup...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 23 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with a engineer, writer, executive and Nashville icon, Doug Johnson.    Biography: Doug Johnson is a Georgia born American record producer and songwriter. He began in the 1970s working as an engineer and mixer for the Lowery Group. His first production credit was for The Burch Sisters , an act that signed with Mercury...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 22 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with veteran sound engineer and music producer, Pat Holt.    Biography: Pat's career has spanned 50 years in the music business.  He has worked with icons in Nashville such as Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, The Judds, Charlie Daniels, Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, Alabama, James Taylor, Arron Tippin, Florence Hender...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 21 Harold, Russ, and Wade hang out with legendary artist manager, Mike Robertson.    Biography: Mike has been an artist manager based in Nashville since 1983.  His roster includes Hall of Fame member Patty Loveless, Wade Hayes, Jonathan Edwards and Kimberly Kelly. He is also co-producer for The Big Easy Cruise https://bigeasycruise.com, The Sandy Beach...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 20 Harold, Russ, and Wade hang out with legendary guitarist, Joh Willis.    John is best known for his work as a session musician, producer, and songwriter. Biography: John Willis was raised in St. Martinville, Louisiana. At age 15, he learned to play banjo and then guitar. At age 22, Willis moved to Los Angeles, where he studied guitar at the Guitar I...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 19 Harold and Russ sit down with two of Nashville's most iconic song publishers, Jewel Coburn and Judy Harris.  These ladies dominated the country music industry for decades turning out one hit song after another. Jewel was also an actress and singer here in the U.S. and in Australia, where she is originally from.  Judy, a native Nashvillian, has worn...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 18 Harold, Russ, Brian and Wade have a chat with legendary artist manager, Mitchell Fox.   Mitchell started his career with Led Zeppelin which led to a chance encounter with Richard Young of the Kentucky Headhunters.  He went on to manage the Headhunters nearly 50 years!  Harold signed the Headhunters in 1989.  Sit back and relax and enjoy today's stor...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 17 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with icon engineer and producer, Ed Seay.  If you are a fan of the podcast you have heard Ed's name from Harold many times.  Harold's famous quote "If you don think you can get your record any better, let Ed Seay mix it".  Sit back and relax and enjoy today's stories.  This is Behind the Shedd. More on Ed Seay: Gettin...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In episode 16 Harold and Russ sit down with Mark McGuinn, Jeff Mosely, and Bobby E. Boyd.  This trio of friends have seen all sides of the music business in Nashville.  Sit back and relax and enjoy today's stories.  This is Behind the Shedd. More about today's guests: Mark  McGuinn was signed to VFR Records in 2001, a newly formed independent record label, which...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In Episode 15, Harold, Russ, and Wade get in the huddle with Coach Barry Switzer.  Coach Switzer is a  former college and professional football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma,...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In Episode 14, Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with legendary singer and 60's superstar, Dean Mathis. Dean is a singer, song writer, guitar and fiddle player, recent steel guitar player, but best known for his role in The Newbeats .  The Newbeats were a 1960s American pop vocal trio, led by Larry Henley with Dean and his brother, Mark Mathis. They are best rememb...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In Episode 13 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with legendary music producer and real cowboy, Eddie Kilroy.  Harold and Eddie met in engineering school in Texas in 1959!!   A lifelong friendship was born.   Here's a little about Eddie  - After moving to Nashville, Kilroy gained a position as a producer at Mercury Records . Kilroy's first studio record, produced in...

Episode 12: El Mongo.  Guest Curly Corwin Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In Episode 12 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with legendary music man and oil man, Curly Corwin.  Curly has loved music all his life, from playing instruments with his family as a child, to owning Master Mix and Song Emporium in Nashville, to writing songs about life with his friends, Curly has done it all.  Curly's love...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In Episode 11 Harold, Russ, and Wade sit down with legendary songwriter, Don Von Tress.  Don wrote arguably the most recognized country song in the world, Achy Breaky Heart performed by Billy Ray Cyrus.  He also wrote Evergreen performed by our good friend Jeff Copley. Sit back and enjoy listening to Don recap his life, musical career, and how he went from being...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd.  In Episode 10 Russ and Harold sit down with Eric Hurt and Nick Autry.  Both these guys are on fire in Nashville right now.  Nick's songs have over 100 million streams and Eric's leadership at Empire Nashville led to Shaboozey's record breaking run with A Bar Song (Tipsey).   Here is some more info about todays guests: Nick Autry  - Producer/Engineer/Songwriter. ...

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...

In Episode 8, Russ Zavitson, Wade Smith, & Harold Shedd sit down with the very talented, Brian Rawlings. You may remember Brian from episodes 1-4.   Brian Rawling's gut has driven more revenue in one year than most companies make in a lifetime. Brian is a one man think tank with over 20 years of experience as an award-winning publisher and as an executive of one of the world's largest entertai...

In this episode of Behind the Shedd we welcome our dear friend,  Doyle Brown.  Doyle is a master song-plugger and dominated country music in the 80's.   He has worked for Welk Music Group, and Polygram Publishing and during that time he led his team to dozens of BMI, CMA, ACM, ASCAP and Grammy awards.  If you are enjoying this podcast series please visit our Facebook page or Instagram page and fol...

Welcome to episode 6 of Behind the Shedd! In this episode we welcome Jason Morris. You may remember Jason from the first four episodes of Behind the Shedd in a group setting, but in this episode he sits down on his own with producers Russ Zavitson & Wade Smith, and the host, Mr. Harold Shedd. We explore how the Music Mill Studio was built and how Harold's investment partner, Donnie Canada, arr...

Welcome back to Behind the Shedd!  In this episode we sit down with Chuck Bedwell.  Chuck has worked with just about everyone in Nashville but has always held a special place in his heart for the Music Mill Studio and working with Harold.  If you wanted to get a song to Harold, Chuck was the conduit.  The music row legend sits down with us and reflects on fond memories of the bustling music city i...

In episode 4 we continue discussions with Harold Shedd, Brian Rawlings, Jason Morris, Chuck Bedwell, Russ Zavitson, and Wade Smith.  More country music history and hilarious stories continue with these amazing music row legends.   Thanks to our monthly supporters Ron Ledet

The boys are back..  Join Brian Rawlings, Jason Morris, Chuck Bedwell, Russ Zavitson, Wade Smith, and Harold Shedd for another trip at the junction of memory lane and music row.   Thanks to our monthly supporters Ron Ledet

Creators & Guests Wm. Wade Smith - Producer Russ Zavitson - Producer Harold Shedd - Host Brian Rawlings - Guest Chuck Bedwell - Guest Jason Morris - Guest In this episode we continue conversation with Brian Rawlings, Chuck Bedwell, Jason Morris, Russ Zavitson, Wade Smith, and Harold Shedd.  Harold and Russ discuss Billy Ray and the phenomenon that followed with Achy Breaky Heart.  Plenty of ot...