Richard "Rick" Blackburn (16 November, 1942 – 30 November, 2012) was a Nashville music executive.[1] He was a president of Atlantic Records in Nashville and shared his skill with Mercury Records and Epic Records.[2] Blackburn was known for hiring top artists like Ricky Van Shelton and George Jones and for dropping Johnny Cash off at Nashville Records around 1985 or 1986. He retired from the music industry in the 1990s and died in his Tennessee home of kidney failure.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Former record exec Rick Blackburn dead at 70". The Tennessean. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Record Industry Veteran Rick Blackburn Dies". All Access Music Group. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Retired Record Executive Rick Blackburn Dead at 70". CMT. Retrieved 7 December 2012.


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