He recorded groundbreaking hits with Patsy Cline
including "Crazy," "I Fall to Pieces" and "Sweet Dreams."
Legendary country music producer Owen Bradley, the man best known as
the architect of the commercially successful "Nashville Sound,"
died Wednesday. He was 82.
Bradley had been admitted to a Nashville, Tenn., hospital
for cold and flu symptoms prior to his death. He had
suffered with heart ailments for years. "He got out of bed,
his blood pressure dropped, which affected his heart,"
Michael Bevington Sayles of Owen Bradley Productions
told the Associated Press.
As a producer at the Decca label during the 1950s, he
helped establish the pedal-steel guitar as the signature
moaning sound of country and western music, exhibited
through such songs as Webb Pierce's "Slowly."
During the early '60s, he recorded wildly successful hits
with Patsy Cline that paired lush strings and harmonies
with traditional country twang.
Bradley also produced Bill Monroe, Conway Twitty,
Loretta Lynn, Red Foley and numerous other country
stars.
Ten years ago, Mr. Bradley emerged from retirement to
produce k.d. lang's acclaimed Shadowland album, and
last year he re-recorded an album of hits with Brenda Lee.
A memorial service for Mr. Bradley is to be held in
Nashville on Friday.
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