The Producers: Bill Belmont

John Fahey's "Dance of Death," A Bill Belmont Production (Takoma, 1965)

We’ve cast about for some information about producer Bill Belmont but the best we could find is a list of album credits. Perhaps this article will inspire someone to pitch in a bit more information.

The very first album we could find credited to Belmont as a producer is tagged as coming from 1969. Entitled Raps, Howls and Roars, it’s subtitled “recordings from the San Francisco poetry renaissance.” Listed as four-disc box set, it’s all about the most famous of the famous (Rexroth, Ginsberg and Lenny Bruce, to name three).

The next notable discs to include Belmont’s finger print are a pair from the legendary guitarist John Fahey: 1965′s Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites and America (from 1971).

Country Joe McDonald also got the Belmont treatement in ’71 on his Hold On It’s Coming as well as four others that include McDonald’s 1991 comeback, Superstition Blues. As near as we can tell, the bulk of his work since that time has been compiling live sets and reissues from artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Otis Redding.

Got more information? Feel free to chip in.