“I was loath to say John's better than George Harrison,” Was says. “It ain't gonna sit well with people, but he might be ...

Don Was is a musician, a producer, a record label president, a radio host and a key figure in the music business going back to the 1970s. He's worked with everyone from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt to ...

Don Was talks about curating a lineup that included Norah Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Maren Morris, Sierra Ferrell and Wynonna Judd, and reveals the song Dave Matthews was set to perform with John Mayer. By ...

“In the music business, people think that if you’re different, it’s a marketing problem,” says Don Was, who’s in the sixth decade of a one-of-a-kind career: producer for superstars, bass player, Blue ...

NPR's Don Gonyea rides around Detroit with producer and musician, Don Was. He's assembled a new band from the Motor City to honor its musical legacy on the album, "Groove In The Face Of Adversity." ...

'Groove in the Face of Adversity' is the title of the new album by Don Was and his Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Was has been in the music business for nearly 50 years, but this is the first album to bear his ...

For Don Was, the Pan-Detroit Ensemble’s debut album — the topically titled “Groove in the Face of Adversity” — “is a handshake, a ‘nice to meet ya, here’s who we are'” proposition. “It’s a postcard of ...

Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president.

Six-time Grammy winner Don Was has had an illustrious career. As a producer, he won Album of the Year in 1989 with Bonnie Raitt; he has worked with mega stars including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, ...

OK, Don Was, we get it. We understand your full-time day gig as president of Blue Note Records since 2011 keeps you fairly tied to its L.A. headquarters. But between assembling your Detroit All-Star ...