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Brian Ahern

Brian Ahern is credited on 1,876 releases across 281 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,876

Pressings credited

281

Albums

7

Decades active

258

In collections

Biography

Brian Ahern, CM (born 1945) is a Canadian record producer and guitarist. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including 12 albums for Anne Murray; 11 albums for Emmylou Harris (to whom he was also married for seven years); he also produced discs for Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Jesse Winchester, and Linda Ronstadt. Ahern was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Producer/Engineer during The Americana Music Association Awards at the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville, TN on Thursday, 9 September 2010 by former wife Emmylou Harris and musician Rodney Crowell. Ahern became renowned for his recording studio Enactron Truck, which produced over 40 gold and platinum records (including Bette Midler's The Rose and Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born).

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Credited work

1,876 releases · 281 albums · active 1964–2025

  • Performance · 3,718
  • Production · 1,812
  • Engineering · 580
  • Other credits · 133
  • Mastering · 28

Studios: Enactron Truck · Magnolia Sound Studios · Eastern Sound · Enactron Studio Two

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