Rick Blackburn, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRick Blackburn
American music executive
Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1942
Date of Death: 30-Nov-2012
Profession: music executive
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Rick Blackburn
- Richard "Rick" Blackburn (16 November, 1942 – 30 November, 2012) was a Nashville music executive.
- He was a president of Atlantic Records in Nashville and shared his skill with Mercury Records and Epic Records.
- Blackburn was known for hiring top artists like Ricky Van Shelton and George Jones and for dropping Johnny Cash off at Nashville Records around 1985 or 1986.
- He retired from the music industry in the 1990s and died in his Tennessee home of kidney failure.
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