Rick Jarrard

As a staff producer at RCA in the late 1960s, Jarrard oversaw some good-to-classic albums by the Jefferson Airplane, José Feliciano, and Harry Nilsson. His most significant achievement was producing Surrealistic Pillow, the Jefferson Airplane's second album, and the first to include Grace Slick in the lineup. Although the group were starting to get further out in their transition from folk-rock to psychedelic music, Jarrard helped give the record a sound that was also palatable to the pop market, particularly in his tasteful use of reverb and his talent at mixing vocal harmoni...