For all the essential releases he produced, Randy Burns doesn't get cited as much as he deserves. Burns presided over some ground-breaking albums, and he always gave the material a clear and coherent mix that still sounded bestial on the master tapes. His albums are timeless in that the production values do not give away their era – they never get stale, and they sound great on a boom box, an iPod, or the world's most expensive stereo.

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