Joe Boyd (Big Ears Festival participant)

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Listing Joe Boyd’s most significant accomplishments as a producer, label owner, and music historian is a tall order. A short list of artists he’s worked with includes Nick Drake (heard here), Pink Floyd , Fairport Convention , Sandy Denny , Richard Thompson , The Incredible String Band , R.E.M. , Vashti Bunyan , Billy Bragg , and 10,000 Maniacs . Additionally, he was the founder of Hannibal Records, the label responsible for bringing the term “world music” into the lexicon, as well as serving as a music producer for Warner Bros. , where he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange and 1972’s Deliverance . His most recent work is…