AES (Audio Engineering Society)
Celebrating this year’s Honorees June 7th 2:00pm
Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Ford Theater
222 5th Ave South
Nashville, Tennessee

The event is free and open to the public

This Year’s Honorees

Tom Pick, Randy Kling, Charlie Tallent, Jim Malloy, Robert E Malloy and Paul Buff.

The engineers and producers in Nashville, Tennessee are among the best in the world. They also recognize the importance of honoring the pioneers who were instrumental in the development and ultimate success of Music Row and the Nashville recording community.

About Tom Pick:
For years, Tom K. Pick has been and continues to be one of the most successful Engineers in the music business. After training at DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago, he went to Boulevard Studios and then to RCA (Chicago), where he remained for several years, prior to being transferred to RCA’s Nashville studio.

It was due to his keen ear, steady hand, watchful eye and creative mind that Chet Atkins brought Pick to Nashville. He was RCA’s Chief Engineer for over fifteen years.

In 1977, as the studio at RCA was being closed, Porter Wagoner hired Pick to manage his new Fireside Studios. Under Pick’s direction and in cooperation with many of the industry’s greatest artists and producers, Fireside became legendary for the many innovative, hit recordings that were being done there. Sadly, Fireside has been destroyed.

Porter sold the studio in 1982 and Dave Burgess brought Pick to Merit Music where Tom built Merit Recording Studio. As Studio Manager and Chief Engineer, he engineered several number one sessions and produced several top European hits, opening the door for many new artists and talents heard today.

Belden Enterprises owner, Penny Belden, hired Pick as Studio Manager when she assumed ownership in the late 90’s. Sadly, Merit Studio has also been destroyed.

The list of successful artists with whom Tom Pick has worked could fill a Who’s Who book. They include many country artists who have reached number one on the Billboard Chart, and he is a Grammy winner - having won eight as of 2012.

Tom has numerous gold and platinum records to his credit, as well as many official Grammy winning award “paper notifications” over the years, presented to him prior to an actual Grammy being awarded to a producer/engineer.

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