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Richard Bennett is a noted touring sideman, session veteran, and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years, and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player, he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill. He has produced Grammy award winning artists like Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Marty Stuart.
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- In February 1979, Columbia released another single from the previous year's Neil Diamond album "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", the up-tempo "Forever in Blue Jeans" (co-written by Richard Bennett), which reached the Top 20.
- From the liner notes of Richard's solo album, Themes From A Rainy Decade, Mark Knopfler writes, "For almost ten years now I've felt very lucky having Richard Bennett as a pal and as a member of the band. His quiet, self-effacing manner hides an encyclopaedic knowledge of all kinds of roots and rock music, from Hillbilly to Hawaiian, played effortlessly on a variety of instruments which appear out of a flight case as big as an Airstream trailer...... May his cracking guitar playing find a place in your life as it has in mine."
- His stinging electric guitar kickoff to Emmylou Harris' Heaven Only Knows (from her Bennett-produced Bluebird album) was the first sound heard on the 2004 season-opening episode of The Sopranos. [1]
- Among many accomplished contributions to the 2007 album "American Standard" by Thelonious Moog, Richard has an out of body electric sitar excursion. [2]
Richard Bennett at the NAC in Ottawa 2005
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[edit] External links
- Richard Bennett's personal site
- Mark Knopfler News
- Thelonious Moog
- Richard Bennett 6/25/06
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