Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman was an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter.
12 Facts About Chips Moman
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Chips Moman worked as the company's recording engineer and produced their first hit single, Carla Thomas's 1960 "Gee Whiz ".
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Chips Moman played guitar on Franklin's recording sessions at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals.
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Chips Moman was a session guitarist for Franklin and other musicians.
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Chips Moman left Memphis in 1971 and briefly operated a studio in Atlanta.
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Chips Moman co-wrote "Luckenbach, Texas " for Waylon Jennings, and produced albums by Willie Nelson, Gary Stewart, Tammy Wynette, Ronnie Milsap, and Petula Clark.
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Chips Moman recorded the first demo cut on the song "Always on My Mind".
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Mark James was working for him as a session musician and Wayne Carson was in the studio recording songs, Carson asking the co-writers to add a bridge to the song that Chips Moman insisted it needed.
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The musicians felt the song was complete, but Chips Moman refused to record it unless they came up with a bridge on the studio's old piano.
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Chips Moman produced Highwayman, the first studio album released by country supergroup The Highwaymen, comprising Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.
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Chips Moman died on 13 June 2016, the day after his 79th birthday, at a hospice in LaGrange, Georgia.
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Chips Moman had been suffering from a lung disease and died of emphysema.