Bill Halverson (born 1942) is an American record producer and engineer who worked on several critically acclaimed rock records of the 1960s and 1970s. He is most well known for working with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and their respective solo albums. His other engineering credits include Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, and Emmylou Harris.
Career Halverson, a bass trombone player in the Dominguez Hills Junior College all-star jazz band, met engineer Wally Heider during a 1960 recording session at United Recording, and the two formed a friendship. Over the next four years, Halverson toured with music acts like Tex Beneke. After Halverson left Beneke's band in 1964, Heider hired him as assistant engineer at the newly opened Studio 3 in Hollywood. Later, Halverson assisted Heider in recording the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, and eventually managed Studio 3 while Heider built Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco.
In early 1969, Halverson engineered Crosby, Stills, & Nash's self-titled debut studio album. Halverson became a freelance engineer in 1970, and relocated to Nashville in 1985. Halverson's engineering credits include Cream and Eric Clapton, CSNY members Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Chuck Berry, and Emmylou Harris.
Discography Albums engineered Source: 1967: The Beach Boys - Wild Honey 1968: Cream - Wheels Of Fire 1968: Pacific Gas and Electric - Get It On 1969: Zephyr - Zephyr 1969: Cream - Goodbye 1969: Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Crosby Stills, & Nash 1970: Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills 1970: Delaney & Bonnie - On Tour With Eric Clapton 1970: Cream - Live Cream 1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu 1970: Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton 1971: Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills 2 1971: Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners 1971: Bill Withers - Just As I Am 1971: Judee Sill - Judee SIll 1971: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street 1972: Cream - Live Cream Vol. 2 1972: America - Homecoming 1972: Crosby & Nash - Graham Nash/ David Crosby 1973: Manassas - Down The Road 1974: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far 1974: REO Speedwagon - Lost In A Dream 1975: Stephen Stills - Stills 1975: Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills Live 1975: Beach Boys - Spirit Of America 1975: Bobby Whitlock - One Of A Kind 1977: Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express 1977: Jack Bruce - How's Tricks 1977: Trans-Europe Express 1979: Ten Years Later: Ride On 1990: Jo-El Sonnier - Have a Little Faith 1990: Texas Tornados - Texas Tornados 1994 Flaco Jiménez - Flaco Jiménez 1996: Acumen - Out of Balance 1999: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Looking Forward
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