Meet Scott Billington, Curator of Craft's New All Analog Bluesville Series

Every properly overseen vinyl record reissue series should have a gatekeeper/curator like Blue Note's Tone Poet series Joe Harley. Craft Recordings has brought on board for its new Bluesville series, Scott Billington, clearly the best possible individual for the job.

Scott is a Grammy winning producer, musician, writer and record executive who's produced more than 150 records, even playing on a few. He's produced records by, among others, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, Johnny Adams, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Irma Thomas and James Booker. Check out his Wiki page.

I've known Scott since around 1969 first as a customer of New England Music City the Kenmore Square record store he managed back then and later as the producer/voice over artist and writer of the (some say) "legendary" New England Music City/Cheap Thrills record store radio commercials.

Scott and I haven't spoken in decades, though we've occasionally traded emails. We catch up in this Zoom call video. At the end there's an "easter egg" where you can listen to a few of the highly offensive (in today's world) radio commercials I wrote and produced for the chain. Back then listeners would call the stations ( among them progressive rock pioneer WBCN-FM, and Top 40 AM station WRKO) and request the commercials (well some of them).

In this video Scott and I talk about his incredible career and his work curating this Bluesville series, all of which are mastered using the original tapes (AAA) cut my Matthew Lutthans at Blue Heaven Studios on Doug Sax's legendary The Mastering Labs cutting system.

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