Charles Dahan
Associate Professor
Survey of Recording Industry
Office: Ezell 106A
Phone: 615.494.7704
Email: cdahan@mtsu.edu
Web: www.charliedahan.com
Charlie spent seven years as the A&R Director at Shanachie Records where he signed and/or work with artist such at The Skatalites, Duke Robillard, Double Trouble, Keb Mo, Anders Osborne, Sue Foley, Debbie Davies and Sara Hickman. He has produced or been apart of the production of over 100 commercially released albums, including two by the Skatalites, both of which received Grammy nominations. He spent time as a talent agent at The Roots Agency where he booked tours for Celia Cruz, Richie Havens, Janis Ian, The Saw Doctors and many others and as an Assistant Professor at Oneonta State College in the music industry department. Currently he co-owns Larchmont Recording, Inc which produced and released several albums featuring Rhonda Vincent, Regina Spektor, Melissa Ferrick, Langhorne Slim, Bumblefoot, Eileen Ivers, Stacey Earle, Chris Barron of The Spin Doctors, Randy Brecker, John Abercrombie and Joe Ferry and The Big Ska Band. Also, he currently co-manages Sleeveless Recording Artist, Sara Hickman. Recently, he and Joe Ferry co-produced over twenty albums for CMH Records including ones featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith, Rueben Wilson, David ‘Fathead’ Newman and their band ‘The Lounge Brigade’ with their takes on the music of Eminem, Ozzy Osbourne (some of which was featured on MTV’s The Osbournes, Season Two), Ani DiFranco and Sublime.
He is researching and co-authoring a discography and label history on the Gennett Recording Company and Studio with T. Malcolm Rockwell (for which they have received several grants from ARSC and The Starr Gennett Foundation as well a Ford Grant), in addition to a study of modern Independent Record Companies (i.e. TVT Records, Equal Vision Records, Rounder Records). He also reviews jazz reissues and writes articles for the award winning jazz website, AllAboutJazz. From 2002-2007 he was the sound and scoreboard operator for the Oneonta Tigers, a Single A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.
He received his Bachelors degree in History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Masters Degree in Music from Purchase College. He maintains memberships with The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, The Blues Foundation, Starr-Gennett Foundation, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections and the Folk Alliance. In his spare time, he is an ardent birdwatcher and a volunteer researcher for various bird population studies, obsesses over the New York Yankees and UNC Tar Heels, and enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.
