Biography
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Born
2 July 1962 (age 61)
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Born In
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States
There are atleast 2 artists with the name David Ferguson.
1) David R. Ferguson (born July 2, 1962 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee) began in the mid-1980s engineering country music recordings for "Cowboy" Jack Clement, at Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, in Nashville, Tennessee. Today, Ferguson is best known for his works with Johnny Cash, as sound engineer on the highly successful Grammy Award-winning American Recordings albums produced by Rick Rubin, in the 1990s and 2000s (decade). Ferguson has also engineered or produced recordings for such artists as folk music legend John Prine, bluegrass music artist Mac Wiseman, Sturgill Simpson, The Del McCoury Band, country music legends Charley Pride, Eddy Arnold, rock-n-roll band U2, and many others. Ferguson appeared as himself in the U2 film, Rattle and Hum, and portrayed his mentor and once real-life boss, Jack Clement in the Jerry Lee Lewis film, Great Balls of Fire!. Ferguson recorded "The Housebuilding Song" and four other tracks for Rockstar Game's Red Dead Redemption 2 and in 2021 these tracks were released as an EP by Ferguson. Ferguson maintains a recording studio in Nashville, and resides in nearby Goodlettsville, Tennessee, near his boyhood home.
2) David Ferguson, guitarist of Dublin band The Daze, has a midi side project. It's absolutely bananas. His first album, The Metaphorical Annuity Of Sattire, sold an amazing 30 copies. It funded the purchase of Half-Life 2 which changed his life forever. He's in the process of writing the follow up and it'll be released when he needs to buy something else.
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