Record Producer Johnny Sandlin 1945 – 2017

Renowned recording engineer and producer Johnny Sandlin has died at the age of 72. According to Variety, Sandlin’s death from cancer was confirmed by his daughter, Leigh Ellen Sandlin Cauthen.

Sandlin was born in Decatur, Alabama in 1945 and started his career in music in the early-1960s as a session musician at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama where Duane Allman was also employed. Sandlin, Allman and his brother Gregg Allman were co-founding members of the short-lived Los Angeles-based band Hour Glass.

Sandlin joined the Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records in 1969 and worked as an engineer and producer on several albums released by The Allman Brothers Band. His credits include mixing the Allmans’ 1971 live LP At Fillmore East and 1972 studio album Eat A Peach as well as producing their 1973 record Brothers And Sisters and 1975’s Win, Lose Or Draw.

Sandlin also produced Widespread Panic’s self-titled sophomore studio album which Capricorn released in 1991. The 2016 Alabama Music Hall Of Fame inductee’s resume also included credits on releases by Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Chuck Leavell, Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit, Bonnie Bramlett, Elvin Bishop and several others.