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“I said, ‘Rick, I’m playing one note, how the hell do I play less?’ He said, ‘I know you can do it’”: Tom Petty keyboard player Benmont Tench says that being produced by Rick Rubin on Johnny Cash’s American IV album was like solving a puzzle

Thursday June 12, 2025. 01:36 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

“You need to simplify,” Rubin kept telling him

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