Willie Mitchell, who shaped the elegant yet gritty sound of Al Green, Ann Peebles and other stars of soul music as the house producer at Hi Records in the 1960s and ’70s, died Tuesday in Memphis, ...

Music producer Willie Mitchell died Tuesday at age 81. Though you may not know him by name, you certainly know his work: Mitchell was the producer behind a string of hits by Al Green in the early to ...

Memphis music producer and musician Willie Mitchell started his career as a bandleader in the 1950s before working his way up to the highest courts of Memphis soul. Over the course of his rise, he ...

Obituary By The Recording Academy: Willie Mitchell We are deeply saddened by the passing of Willie Mitchell. An accomplished trumpeter who led one of the region's premier bands of the '50s, he made ...