1. Jon Tiven was born on January 3,1955 and is an American composer, guitarist, record producer, and music journalist.
22 Facts About Jon Tiven
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Jon Tiven was the co-founder of the Memphis power pop band Prix, as well as the bands The Yankees and The Jon Tiven Group.
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Jon Tiven began his career as a music journalist in the late 1960s, writing for Rolling Stone, Fusion, Melody Maker, and a host of other magazines.
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In 1975 Tiven went to work for Chess Records in New York, but quickly saw that working inside a record company was not his calling, and travelled to Memphis to produce Alex Chilton's first solo album, Bach's Bottom.
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Jon Tiven brought in Chilton to participate in the recordings as well.
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Jon Tiven declined the offer, and then negotiated with Mercury Records, who eventually withdrew their third offer.
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In 1977, Jon Tiven licensed both the Prix and Chilton masters to Ork Records, which released a double A side Prix single and released the Chilton recordings as an EP entitled The Singer Not The Song.
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From that time on Jon Tiven would distinguish himself in the soul and blues genres, writing and producing new albums by Don Covay, Syl Johnson, Donnie Fritts, Freddie Scott, and Mack Rice, among others.
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Jon Tiven continued to have his songs recorded by other artists.
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The Jon Tiven Group recorded and released two albums in the 1990s: Blue Guru and Yes I Ram.
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In 2007, Jon Tiven produced and co-wrote Intuition, the first recordings in thirty-seven years by soul singer Betty Harris.
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Jon Tiven continued his work with Ellis Hooks by producing Another Saturday Morning, the sixth album by the Alabama soul-blues musician.
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Jon Tiven helmed the chart-topping American debut Sofa King Badass by Mason Casey.
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In 2007, Jon Tiven produced an album by former Grass Roots member Creed Bratton.
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In 2008, Jon Tiven produced and co-wrote a new album by Howard Tate entitled Blue Day.
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Jon Tiven is credited as a writer on over 400 recorded songs.
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In 2009, Jon Tiven began creating a string of narrative Soul Operas.
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Jon Tiven's first, entitled "I Sold Out" features the voices of James Jackson Toth, Cowboy Jack Clement, Buddy Miller, Chuck Mead, Bekka Bramlett and Felix Cavaliere.
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Jon Tiven is currently working on the follow-up, "Skin On The Wheel Of Time," sung by Ellis Hooks, Jonell Mosser, and Steve Kalinich and featuring songs Tiven wrote with the aforementioned three plus Bob Mosley, Billie Ray Martin, Roger Reale, Charlie Feldman, Keith Reid, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Vivino, Wayne Carson, Steve Kalinich, and Thomas Cain.
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Jon Tiven wrote songs with Andreas Werner, Paul Rodgers, and Mary Katherine Rowe.
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Jon Tiven further distinguished himself in 2013 writing chart records by Leslie West, JJ Thames, and Chuck Mead.
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In 2015, the first recordings Jon Tiven produced were all part of an Ork Records anthology released by the Numero Group.