Production · Engineering

Tommy Couch

real name Thomas Jackson Couch

Tommy Couch is credited on 695 releases across 178 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

695

Credits

178

Albums

7

Decades active

41

In collections

Biography

Producer - songwriter - engineer - studio owner
From Tuscumbia, Alabama.
In 1967, he formed Malaco Records in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1985, Couch along with partners Gerald Wolf Stephenson and Stewart Madison purchased Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and publishing companies. They have also expanded their operations to include Savoy Records, Muscle Shoals Sound Records, and publishing outlets in Nashville and London. Among the artists included on the labels are Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Williams Brothers, Mississippi Mass Choir, Dorothy Moore, Jackson Southernaires and many others.
---do not confuse with his son ---

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

695 releases · 178 albums · active 1968–2024

  • Production · 645
  • Engineering · 98
  • Performance · 30
  • Other credits · 11

Studios: Malaco Studios · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Criteria Recording Studios · Steve Gilreach Productions

Discography

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