Atkins at RCA, Owen Bradley at Decca, and Ken Nelson at Capitol, Law was instrumental in re-establishing country's commercial viability during the so-called Nashville Sound era" from about 1957. He took mandatory retirement from Columbia Records in 1967, but set up an independent production company, Don Law Productions, and continued to have some success with singers including Henson Cargill. In 1970 Law produced the double platinum album For The Good Times by Ray Price. He retired completely in the late 1970s. He died from lung cancer in 1982 in La Marque, Galveston, Texas, at the age of 80. He was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Law's son, also named Don Law, achieved fame as a successful concert promoter in the New England/Boston area. In popular culture The season 2 episode 6 of the NBC series Timeless, "King of The Delta Blues", features Don Law, who is portrayed by Gavin Stenhouse. References 1902 births 1982 deaths American country record producers People from Leytonstone Country Music Hall of Fame inductees English record producers British emigrants to the United States Deaths from cancer in Texas Singers from London 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century British businesspeople