Kent Hartman

Kent Hartman is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller and Amazon Top 100 The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best Kept Secret, which won the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction. He is a longtime music business insider and entrepreneur whose clients have included Elvis Presley Enterprises, America, Lyle Lovett, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, Counting Crows, Chicago, Garbage, Kansas, Eddie Money, Three Dog Night, and many others. Additionally, Hartman is a former nationally syndicated radio show producer (Forgotten Hits of the '60s & '70s; Here's Johnny for Carson Productions) and he spent many years teaching marketing within the College of Business at Oregon State University and the School of Business at Portland State University. He lives in Portland, Oregon.