Music Production

The producer functions as the business and creative leader of any studio, film, television or radio recording project. Producers will pitch recording acts to the big record labels to get a recording budget. They can also work with composers and produce sound recordings for film, TV and other forms of multimedia as well. The producer supervises all aspects of the recording process including contracting session players and overseeing the recording budget. A producer will also help the artist select songs to be recorded. Preferably, a producer should be an excellent musician with a lot of performing experience, and have a great depth of musical, acoustical and studio technical understanding. Producer's generally work for a fee and a percentage of the royalty revenue.

Cal, our producer's musical career has encompassed performing, writing, production, artist development, and artist management. Cal’s accomplishments as a writer, artist, musician, producer, and engineer have earned him 12 gold singles, 8 gold albums, 4 platinum albums, 2 platinum singles, 1 quadruple platinum single, 2 double platinum albums and 4 quadruple platinum albums…

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Cal began singing at the age of five, and playing guitar at twelve. He also plays the bass, drums, keyboards,and the pedal steel guitar. During his formative years he was privileged to tour with both of the legendary country greats, JOHNNY HORTON and JIM REEVES!

Cal has performed in every American State, and has toured CANADA, BELGIUM, JAPAN, AFRICA, SWITZERLAND, ENGLAND, and the old USSR. He has also enjoyed considerable exposure to Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Reno , and Atlantic City audiences…

He has appeared on national television shows: “The MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW”, “HEE-HAW”, “AUSTIN CITY LIMITS”, “THE TONIGHT SHOW with JOHNNY CARSON”, “THE LARRY KANE SPECIALS”(NBC), and “AMERICAN BANDSTAND” with DICK CLARK. He has also been a regular on “The LOUISIANA HAYRIDE” and has appeared on “The GRAND OLE OPRY”….

Cal has worked in the bands of RAY PRICE, JACK SCOTT, JAYBOY ADAMS, GALLERY, CLARENCE “GATEMOUTH” BROWN, GUS HARDIN, WYNN STEWART, and BOB WILLS to name a few. For many of these acts Cal also performed duties as music director and bandleader. In the early 1980’s Cal had a band in Tulsa, Oklahoma called “Whirlwind”, which featured RONNIE DUNN of “Brooks and Dunn”, as the lead vocalist…

While living in Detroit in the early ‘70’s, Cal became one of the founding members of the pop group “GALLERY”, whose Sussex recordings of “IT’S SO NICE TO BE WITH YOU” and “I BELIEVE IN MUSIC”, were both number one hits, and have garnered the group nine gold, and three platinum record awards in the USA, Canada, Malaysia, and South Africa. GALLERY was named “The Number Two New Group” for the year 1972 by both BILLBOARD and CASHBOX magazines…The two songs have been included in over 25 “greatest hits” albums with a combined sales of over 27 million units…

After the breakup of GALLERY, Cal moved back to Texas where he became a founding member of the JAYBOY ADAMS BAND, who recorded for Atlantic Records. The group was managed and produced by BILL HAM, who also manages and produces the legendary rock & roll band…ZZ TOP. BILL HAM also was country music great CLINT BLACK’S first manager and producer. For over three years the JAYBOY ADAMS BAND was the opening act for ZZ TOP. During this time and during the days of GALLERY, Cal performed with almost every major pop and rock &roll act in the world.

When Cal left the JAYBOY ADAMS BAND, it was to try his hand at still another music form, when he joined the band of legendary “Texas Blues” artist, CLARENCE “GATEMOUTH” BROWN. While working with “Gatemouth”, Cal got to literally see the world with several tours of the ORIENT, EUROPE, AFRICA, and the entire old USSR. It was during this time that Cal moved to Tulsa, to be closer to the home offices of The Jim Halsey Company.

In the early 80’s Cal left the band of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, to work in the development of the career of an incredible female singer from Tulsa, GUS HARDIN, who was to record two albums with RCA, and go on to win The Country Music Association’s, “Horizon Award” in 1985.

It was while working with Gus Hardin, that she introduced him to her “favorite singer in the whole world”, RONNIE DUNN, who later joined forces with Cal to form a group called “WHIRLWIND’. They worked at a club in Tulsa called “Duke’s Country”, which at the time was the second largest club in the world with a 36,000 square foot dance floor…..

While working together, Ronnie and Cal went to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record an album for CHURCHILL RECORDS, a label owned by The Jim Halsey Company, and distributed by MCA RECORDS…

It was on this trip that Cal decided to make the move to Muscle Shoals to pursue his music publishing and production interests. An old friend from Lubbock, Texas, RUSS ZAVITSON had started a publishing company that was beginning to have some success in the country music market, and it was with Desert Rose Music, that Cal first became an active music publisher…

A few years later Cal became studio manager at Broadway Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, and operated both the production and publishing companies here, working with artists like KENNY PRICE, star of “HEE-HAW”, and the R&B greats, PERCY SLEDGE, and CLARENCE CARTER…

Cal is an accomplished studio musician, producer, and engineer, and has worked in studios in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Muscle Shoals, Lubbock, Texas, Toronto, Ontario, and Nashville…

He has recorded with…… JERRY REED, DOUG KERSHAW, JAYBOY ADAMS, RAY PRICE,GALLERY, WYNN STEWART, PERCY SLEDGE, KENNY PRICE, GUS HARDIN, JACK SCOTT, DAVID RUFFIN, HANK THOMPSON, CLARENCE “GATEMOUTH”BROWN, RINA SINIKAN, BOB SEGER, T.G. SHEPPARD, CLARENCE CARTER, BILLY “CRASH” CRADDOCK,RONNIE DUNN, DENNIS ROBBINS, and RICHIE HAVENS…

As a songwriter, Cal has had the good fortune of having his songs recorded by KENNY PRICE, PERCY SLEDGE, JOHNNY POWERS (England), LARRY SPARKS, BARBARA MANDRELL, and LEE GREENWOOD…