Buzz Cason

James Elmore Cason was born in Nashville, Tennessee on November 27, 1939. He was a founding member of The Casuals, Nashville's first rock and roll band. Cason then continued to record and issue singles as "Garry Miles" through about 1964, but without much commercial success. In 1962 he worked as Snuff Garrett's assistant engineer in Los Angeles. During this period, he and Leon Russell, then a session musician, produced The Crickets in a version of the song "La Bamba". The song did well in the United Kingdom and he toured with the group. As of 2020 Cason was still writing and producing songs. His book, ''Living the Rock'N'Roll Dream: The Adventures of Buzz Cason'' (2004), ==Creative Workshop==

In 1970, Cason founded 'Creative Workshop', a recording studio for producing acts for Southern Writers Group USA (SWG), Nashville's first writer-owned group of music publishing companies. The first session at the studio was for Jimmy Buffett's second album, High Cumberland Jubilee. In 1982, the studio was expanded via the addition of Creative Workshop II next door. Other artists who would record at the studio included Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Merle Haggard, The Judds, The Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, and Olivia Newton-John. ==References==