Music Citizens: The Wrangler

When you go to a live show these days, you expect to see a spectacle — an artistic production that will blow you away.

Behind the scenes, there’s one person responsible for bringing this production to life — the production manager. Today we join with WNXP’s Music Citizens podcast to go behind the scenes with Nashville-based production manager, Tori Butash.

As a “lady soundguy,” Tori worked her way up doing sound for Rob Thomas, Imagine Dragons and other bands including Sylvan Esso. It was Sylvan Esso who realized Tori was highly organized, a good communicator and, most importantly, a good hang — the perfect ingredients for a production manager.

This episode was produced by Justin Barney and Mary Mancini.

Guests

• Tori Butash, Production Manager, (Wilco, Sylvan Esso)
• Michael Pollard, Production Direction, WNXP
• Jason Moon Wilkins, Program Director, WNXP

Music Citizens is a new podcast series by WNXP and Nashville Public Radio about the people who make music work. Each episode will explore what it takes to do the jobs that keep the music business moving and introduce you to the characters who are often well known within their worlds but whose vital work goes largely uncelebrated. Listen to all episodes at wnxp.org.