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Kent Hartman

Biography

Kent Hartman

Kent Hartman is a longtime music industry entrepreneur who has worked with dozens of well-known artists, including Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, Hall & Oates, Counting Crows, and Lyle Lovett. He has written for American Heritage, The Oregonian, and Portland Tribune. Hartman teaches marketing at Portland State University and for several years produced The Classic Comedy Break, a nationwide radio feature. He lives in Portland.

Kent Hartman

Books by Kent Hartman

The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
by Kent Hartman - Music, Nonfiction

THE WRECKING CREW tells the collective, behind-the-scenes stories of the artists who dominated Top 40 radio during the most exciting time in American popular culture. Mining invaluable interviews, the author follows the careers of such session masters as drummer Hal Blaine and keyboardist Larry Knechtel, as well as trailblazing bassist Carol Kaye --- the only female in the bunch --- who went on to play in thousands of recording sessions in this rock history.