Fireside Chat

Joe Boyd

Hannibal, London

On Joe Boyd's business card it probably says 'Record/Film Producer' but that's a bloody simple way of putting it. In truth, Joe is a producer like the Vatican is a church. He started out touring artists like Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins and Stan Getz and, on the cusp of folk's emergence into the rock arena, supervised Bob Dylan's electric debut. He opened London's 'psychedelic ballroom', UFO, in 1966 and, in the same era, produced Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention. A multitude more artists followed and then films: scores for Deliverance and Clockwork Orange, then EP duties on Profumo affair movie, Scandal. Moving on from there, he was amongst the first people to go places like Mali, Brazil and Cuba to produce adequate recordings of local music traditions. Tune in to this Fireside Chat for an insight into some of the moments and places he came by on the way - few people have been around to see so much music history happen before their eyes.