BOOK EXCERPT
Capricornucopia Phil, Frank & Duane We are happy to share a sample chap-
ter (Chapter 3) fom the book The Road Goes On Forever: 50 Years of Allman Brothers Band Music, by Michael Buffalo Smith. The book is available from the publisher, Mercer University Press (
mupress.org) as well as from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and mostother online retailers.
Chapter 3 When Phil Walden expressed an inter-
est in building a new recording studio, it was Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler who came through. Walden had a dream of run- ning a recording studio with its own stable of in-house musicians similar to the models made famous by FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals or Stax Records in Memphis. Wexler liked the idea, but he thought it could actually be much more than just a studio, and he sug- gested that Atlantic Records fund a new stu- dio, but also a management company, and record label, all based in Walden’s hometown of Macon, Georgia. Capricorn set up shop at 548 Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Macon, a building the Walden brothers had initially purchased as a studio space for Otis Redding and other soul artists signed to Redwal Music, a music-pub- lishing firm operated by Otis Redding, Phil Walden and his brother Alan Walden. The studio was built by Jim Hawkins (who acted as sound engineer until 1971 and went on to enjoy a successful career in film and operates
a studio today in Athens, Georgia) Plans were temporarily put on hold after Redding's un- timely death on Dec. 10, 1967. Wexler and Walden tried hard to decide on a name for the new venture, considering and ultimately rejecting names like Macon Records and Walden Records. Eventually, they christened the new label Capricorn Records, taken from the fact that both of them were born under the astrological sign of Capricorn.
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