RIP Bill Leader

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Legendary recording engineer Bill Leader passed away a few days ago and sadly without much mainstream notice. A search for any obituary in mainstream media turns up pretty much nothing.

If you were a British Folk Music enthusiast but you were not one to read the fine print on your album covers, Bill Leader would have been the invisible man. Yet he was there, always there, as integral a part of the scene as any musician. I believe he started out on a shoe string budget recording albums with a Revox deck in his flat. He recorded Bert Jansch's first album in this manner.

A Short Obituary:

Bill Leader obit

Bill Leader (1929-2026) He was not on the list. I’m sorry to say that Bill Leader (1929-2026) has passed on. A legendary, remarkably modes...

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A Small Selection of Some Older Articles:

Bill Leader's good tradition of folk music production

The BBC Folk Awards celebrate the work of a Rochdale producer who worked with big names like Christy Moore and Bert Jansch.

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Bill Leader - 50 years in the recording industry (Part 1) | Living Tradition

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Bill Leader | Interview | "I made Bert Jansch’s very first recording in my flat" - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Bill Leader is a legendary English recording engineer and record producer being involved in particular with the British folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, producing records by Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and many others. Bil Leader was originally from New Jersey born to...

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Legendary recording engineer Bill Leader passed away a few days ago and sadly without much mainstream notice. A search for any obituary in mainstream media turns up pretty much nothing.

If you were a British Folk Music enthusiast but you were not one to read the fine print on your album covers, Bill Leader would have been the invisible man. Yet he was there, always there, as integral a part of the scene as any musician. I believe he started out on a shoe string budget recording albums with a Revox deck in his flat. He recorded Bert Jansch's first album in this manner.

Shades of Rudy Van Gelder.