Bruce Bromberg

{{Short description|American blues producer (1941–2021)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} '''Bruce Bromberg''' (October 31, 1941 – December 27, 2021)<ref name="allmusic">[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bruce-bromberg-p59606/credits/date-asc/ Bruce Bromberg], AllMusic</ref> was an American Grammy Award winning<ref name="halloffame" /> producer of blues music.

He was born in Chicago, and raised there and in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1958, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, and began working for various record labels.<ref name=halloffame>[http://www.blues.org/halloffame/#ref=halloffame_inductees Blues Hall of Fame: 2011 Inductees] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822221230/http://www.blues.org/halloffame/ |date=August 22, 2009 }}</ref> Since the late 1960s, he was responsible for producing albums by Lightnin' Hopkins, Phillip Walker, Johnny Shines, Lonesome Sundown, Ted Hawkins, Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Dave Alvin, Chris Thomas King, Johnny Childs and many others, as well as supervising many reissues of archive material.<ref name=allmusic/> He formed HighTone Records with Larry Sloven in 1983, and achieved success with Cray's albums in particular from the early 1980s onwards. The label was sold in 2008.<ref name=halloffame/>

Bromberg was announced as an inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame for 2011.<ref>[http://www.blues.org/halloffame/#ref=halloffame_news The Blues Foundation, ''2011 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees Announced'', February 2011] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127154930/http://www.blues.org/halloffame/#ref=halloffame_news |date=January 27, 2011 }}</ref>

He died on December 27, 2021, after a long illness.<ref>[https://blues.org/blues_hof_inductee/bruce-bromberg/ Bruce Bromberg, ''The Blues Foundation'']. Retrieved 23 January 2022</ref>

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