Bruce Bromberg
American blues producer (1941–2021)
Bruce Bromberg (October 31, 1941 – December 27, 2021) was an American Grammy Award winning producer of blues music.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Bruce Bromberg (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Oct 31, 1941, died Dec 27, 2021.1
About
He was born in Chicago, and raised there and in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1958, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, and began working for various record labels. Since the late 1960s, he was responsible for producing albums by Lightnin' Hopkins, Phillip Walker, Johnny Shines, Lonesome Sundown, Ted Hawkins, Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Dave Alvin, Chris Thomas King, Johnny Childs and many others, as well as supervising many reissues of archive material. He formed HighTone Records with Larry Sloven in 1983, and achieved success with Cray's albums in particular from the early 1980s onwards. The label was sold in 2008.
Bromberg was announced as an inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame for 2011.
He died on December 27, 2021, after a long illness.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bruce Bromberg, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- HighTone RecordsFounder10
Career
Occupation: composer, record producer.4
- Date not recordedFounded HighTone Records3
Personal life
Awards
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataBruce Bromberg on Wikidata
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- 10WikidataHighTone Records, Founder