Kent Hartman
Kent Hartman is a Portland, Oregon based author. His book won the Frances Fuller Victor Oregon Book Award in 2013 was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
Hartman spent decades in Los Angeles, and worked with a variety of famous recording artists. He produced a nationally syndicated radio program, The Classic Comedy Break. As of 2012 he teaches marketing at Portland State University.
The Wrecking Crew book was inspired by a conversation between the author and Larry Knechtel, a member of the band Bread, and previously a member of the Wrecking Crew, an informal group of studio musicians who played anonymously on many 1960s music hits.