Brian Ahern (producer)

Brian Ahern
Born	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Genres	Folk, country music
Occupation(s)	Musician, producer
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1961–present
Associated acts	Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, George Jones, Keith Richards, Neil Young
Website	BAAM Music

Brian Ahern, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian record producer and guitarist. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including 12 albums for Anne Murray; 11 albums for Emmylou Harris (to whom he was also married for seven years); he also produced discs for Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Jesse Winchester, and Linda Ronstadt. Ahern was entered into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Producer/Engineer during The Americana Music Association Awards at the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville TN. on Thursday, 9 September 2010 by former wife Emmylou Harris and musician Rodney Crowell.

Ahern became renowned for his recording studio Enactron Truck, which produced over 40 gold and platinum records (including Bette Midler's The Rose and Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born).

Ahern was the second of five children. His father was the music director for their Catholic parish. At the age of twelve, Ahern was hospitalized with a severe asthma condition. His father gave him a guitar (S.S. Stewart f-hole archtop). He strummed his way through school, and the folk era. When records were played at school sock-hops, Ahern convinced the school administration to purchase equipment so a school band could play live. At St. Mary's University, he played Junior Varsity football as well as music.

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