Joe Boyd has built a legendary career as a record producer and label head, working with Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, R.E.M., and many, many more. In recent years, he has also become an author with his 2006 memoir White Bicycles and, in 2024, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, an epic account of how what he once helped popularize as “world music” influenced the sounds of the English-speaking planet.