There'll be none of those guys left soon...

There are several more excerpts from this interview on You Tube and they're very interesting. He really knew what he was talking about.

to the day after Jerry Wexler.

Alex Chilton introduced me to him in 1977. (That was in the days when nobody would have considered that to be namedropping.) He was the lynchpin of that whole scene, the only one left who had played at the old studios but still knew the up and coming musicians. And he was very generous with his time and advice. "I took clients in the 70s just to impress my children," he later said. Those children eventually became the North Mississippi All Stars. Dickinson's one of a handful of musicians whose name on a sleeve indicated that the record might be worth hearing. He produced Amy LaVere's recent record "Anchors and Anvils", which has been one of my favourites for the last couple of years. Here's the two of them talking about it.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/jimdickinson.htm

As are the other ones that were recorded at the same interview. He is more insightful about the production process than anyone I've heard this side of Joe Boyd.

And they both say the same thing. The job of the producer is to listen in a way that the artist is incapable of doing.