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Note from Jon Landau to Jann Wenner

August 8, 1970

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, United States

This note describes Landau resuming full time work at Rolling Stone after producing Livingston Taylor’s self-titled debut album. “I was working with a guy named Jon Landau… . [Landau] and I had a mutual friend who introduced me to him. I played him a few songs and he said, ‘I want to produce you!’” Taylor recalled. “When I met Jon, he was a kid writing for a paper called Crawdaddy, and he was going down to Macon, Georgia, to do an article on Otis Redding for a new publication called Rolling Stone. And that’s how I got to Capricorn [the record label started by Redding’s manager Phil Walden], with Jon Landau.”

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