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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: An Audio-visual Journey Through Global Music with Joe Boyd. Berlin ConfidentialBorn in Boston in 1942, he graduated from Harvard in 1964. After university, he worked as a production and tour manager for George Wein in Europe where he traveled with Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and others; and at Newport where he supervised Bob Dylan’s electric debut. In 1966, he opened UFO, London’s psychedelic ballroom.
His first record production was four tracks by “Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse” for Elektra in 1966. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard & Linda Thompson, Maria Muldaur, Toots and the Maytals, REM, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, Cubanismo, Taj Mahal and many others.
As head of music for Warner Brothers Films, he organized the scoring of Deliverance, Clockwork Orange and McCabe and Mrs Miller and made Jimi Hendrix, a feature-length documentary. He later went into partnership with Don Simpson to develop film projects. He helped set up Lorne Michaels’ “Broadway Pictures” in 1979-1980, then started Hannibal Records, which he ran for 20 years. In 1988, he was Executive Producer of the feature film Scandal.
In 2006, Joe published a memoir “White Bicycles: Making Music in the Sixties”. It received high critical praise and has sold 75,000 copies world wide and has been translated into 6 languages. He has toured widely in the UK and US with Robyn Hitchcock in the show “Live and Direct from the 1960s” in which he reads and talks and Robyn sings the appropriate songs. He has also produced concerts in celebration of Nick Drake, Kate McGarrigle, Syd Barrett, Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band. Recordings of the Drake and McGarrigle concerts were released in the first half of 2013.
Afterwards he and his wife Andrea Goertler produced a series of albums from the Balkans. In 2024 his book „And the Roots of Rhythm Remain“ His 100-minute-long show mixing stories and excerpts from his book with a selection of film clips, music and photos was a highlight on the recent Big Ears festival in Knoxville. Since the book's publication in the autumn of 2024, his talks have enthralled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. While Joe normally plays recordings during his events, the show added an exciting new dimension: rarely-if-ever-seen clips of Taj Mahal with Toumani Diabaté, Kate Bush with the Trio Bulgarka, Ravi Shankar with George Harrison, Dizzy Gillespie with Chano Pozo, Ivo Papasov with David Sanborn, Paul Simon in Zimbabwe with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, John Coltrane, Taraf de Haïdouks, Desi Arnaz, Django Reinhardt, Miriam Makeba and tango king Carlos Gardel.
What an amazing book! I doubt I'll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one. A 'Wow' on every page."
Brian Eno
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