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Biography of recording engineer and music producer Tom Dowd.
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The 2004 Grammy nominee for Best Music Video Tom Dowd and the Language of Music is a lively profile of this artistic and technical mastermind, punctuated by gripping performance footage of the countless top-shelf artists on Dowd's resume, as well as interviews with some of those musicians, and with the charming, effervescent Dowd himself. Not only did Dowd oversee the making of groundbreaking albums like Derek & the Dominos' Layla and Otis Redding's Otis Blue, he helped design and test the atomic bomb in the infamous Manhattan Project. Clearly this is a man with a story to tell, and this film tells it, focusing on Dowd's long list of achievements, as well as his natural gift for communication and camaraderie.
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