Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
Music News: Capitol Records man worked with Haggard, Owens -- Ken Nelson, a longtime talent scout at Capitol Records who produced dozens of No. 1 country music hits and helped push Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to country stardom in the 1960s, died Sunday of natural causes in Somis, Calif. He was 96.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
h LOS ANGELES -- Ken Nelson, a longtime talent scout at Capitol Records who produced dozens of No. 1 country music hits and helped push Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to country stardom in the 1960s, has died. He was 96.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
U.S record producer KEN NELSON has died. He was 96. The former head of country A+R for Capitol Records died at his home in California on Sunday (06Ja
