# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:03:13.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bennett"
name: "Richard Bennett"
slug: "richard-bennett"
description: "Richard Bennett is an American guitarist and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session musician, he has worked with Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Rodney Crowell, and Vince Gill. He has produced albums for Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, and Kim Richey."
tagline: "American musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Bennett_in_Zwolle_2013_CLIP.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           11.856556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://richard-bennett.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "ريتشارد بينيت (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "ريتشارد بينيت (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "ریچارد بنت (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(Gitarrist)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (Gitarrist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(guitarist)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (guitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(guitarrista)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (guitarrista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA_(%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA)"
    title: "ریچارد بنت (گیتاریست)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(guitariste)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (guitariste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(musicista)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(gitarist)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (gitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett"
    title: "Richard Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(muzyk)"
    title: "Richard Bennett (muzyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/739ced4c-79ad-4fc6-86ee-f05e6a27380c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3065445"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump