The joy of the journey JACKIE KENNEDY COURTESY OF CHIPS MOMAN Chips Moman reminisces about the music he’s produced, archived on hundreds of audiotapes shown here. Music legend Chips Moman reflects on his roots BY JACKIE KENNEDY COURTESY OF CHIPS MOMAN Above top: A young Moman sits behind the control board with recording artist Petula Clark and others at American Studio in the 1960s. Above and right: The many artists Moman produced include Dionne Warwick (above) and Elvis Presley (right). January 2010 www.georgiamagazine.org COURTESY OF CHIPS MOMAN Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman’s biggest dream as a youth was to own a car. Raised at the end of a deadend street in LaGrange during the Great Depression, he figured dreaming for a car was dreaming big. That dream came true, and then some. The retired record producer has owned numerous cars, thanks to a 50-year career in the music industry that had him rubbing elbows with the 20th century’s musical greats, from Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson to Aretha Franklin and Johnny Cash. Moman is the songwriter who co-wrote Aretha Franklin’s R&B classic “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Waylon Jennings’ signature song, “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)”; the producer who recorded chart-topping smashes “Suspicious Minds” by Presley
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