WILLIE MITCHELL

AP) MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Willie Mitchell, a record producer and musician who worked with Al Green and dozens of others, has died. He was 81.Mitchell's son, Lawrence Mitchell, said his father suffered a cardiac arrest on Dec. 19 and died at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis at 7:25 a.m. Tuesday.Willie Mitchell owned Royal Studio where Buddy Guy, John Mayer and many others recorded. In the 1970s, Mitchell also owned Hi Records of Memphis, the label for Green.He received a Trustees Award from the Grammy Foundation in 2008.A trumpeter, Mitchell and his band provided the music at several New Year's Eve parties for Elvis Presley at Presley's Graceland home. A Memphis boulevard was named in his honor in 2004.
Mitchell was born and raised in Ashland, Miss.