Don Gehman

Don Gehman was among the most successful producers of the 1980s and 1990s, his rich heartland sound most familiar to audiences through his collaborations with John Cougar Mellencamp and Hootie & The Blowfish. A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as a teen he began playing bass in a local rock band, and upon learning to set up the group's PA system his interest in technology continued to grow. During the early 1970s, Gehman worked as a live sound tech for superstars including James Brown, Loggins & Messina, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. With Stephen Stills' 1976 LP Illegal Stills he received his first production credit, but after the album's release, he instead accepted an engineering job at Miami's Criterion Studios, where in the years to follow he worked on recordings from Barbra Streisand, Robin Trower, Firefall and Mcguinn, Clark & Hillman.



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