Jay Joyce

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Jay Joyce
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Background information
Birth nameJohn Joseph Joyce
Born
Origin Nashville, Tennessee
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • bass
  • drums
  • keyboard
Years active1986–present

John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine. He also fronted the band Bedlam, featured on the soundtrack to the Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs . and began working as a record producer, working with artists such as The Wallflowers, Tim Finn, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, White Reaper, Lainey Wilson and Cage the Elephant. In the 2000s, Joyce began producing for Eric Church, Halestorm, Zac Brown Band, Brandy Clark, Amos Lee, Declan McKenna, Fidlar and Little Big Town. [1] [2] [3] He has also played guitar for Crowded House, The Wallflowers, John Hiatt, Iggy Pop, Brendan Benson and Macy Gray. [4]

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In recent years the Grammy Award-Winning Producer of the Year has worked with Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Brothers Osborne and Miranda Lambert, as well as played a major role in helping newcomers Ashley McBryde, LANCO, Devin Dawson and Tenille Townes find unique sounds and hone their songwriting abilities. In 2014 Joyce partnered with Warner/Chappell to establish Neon Cross Music, a publishing company with a roster of rock, pop and country artists and writers. [5]

Joyce has also received four CMA Awards [6] and five ACM Awards [7] including Producer of the Year. In 2018, rock critic Rob Harvilla of The Ringer named Joyce "the most influential—and hardest-rocking—man in Country music." [8]

Discography

Songwriting discography

YearArtistAlbumSongCo-written with
1999 Chantal Kreviazuk Colour Moving and Still "Before You"Chantal Kreviazuk
Shelby Lynne I Am Shelby Lynne "Dream Some"Shelby Lynne, Dorothy Overstreet
2004 Marc Broussard Carencro "Save Me"Marc Broussard
Low Millions Ex-Girlfriends"Here She Comes"Adam Cohen
Liam Titcomb Liam Titcomb"Cross Yourself"
2005 Faith Hill Fireflies "The Lucky One"Brad Warren, Brett Warren
2009 Love and Theft World Wide Open "Freedom"Stephen Barker Liles, Brad Warren, Brett Warren
2011 Emmylou Harris Hard Bargain "Cross Yourself"
2012 Little Big Town Tornado "Leavin' In Your Eyes"Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Brett Warren, Brad Warren
2013 Thomas Rhett It Goes Like This "All-American Middle Class White Boy"Thomas Rhett, Brett Warren, Brad Warren
Keith Urban Fuse "Lucky Charm"Keith Urban, Jeremy Spillman
2014Little Big Town Pain Killer "Good People"Natalie Hemby, Jeremy Spillman
"Turn the Light On"Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Phillip Sweet,
Kimberly Schlapman, Natalie Hemby, Jeremy Spillman
"Silver and Gold"Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jedd Hughes

Production discography

YearArtistAlbumSong(s)
1998 Patty Griffin Flaming Red All tracks except "One Big Love"
1999 Tim Finn Say It Is So All tracks
Chantal Kreviazuk Colour Moving and Still
2000 Rubyhorse How Far Have You Come?
The Warren Brothers King of Nothing "King of Nothing"
2001 Tim Finn Feeding the Gods All tracks
John Hiatt The Tiki Bar Is Open
2002 Rubyhorse Rise
2003 Shaye The Bridge
2004 Low Millions Ex-Girlfriends
2005 Screaming Orphans CirclesAll tracks
2006 Eric Church Sinners Like Me
2008 Cage the Elephant Cage the Elephant
2009 Eric Church Carolina
2010 Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Pardon Me
2011 Cage the Elephant Thank You, Happy Birthday
Eric Church Chief
Emmylou Harris Hard Bargain
2012 Little Big Town Tornado
The Wallflowers Glad All Over
2013 Cage the Elephant Melophobia
Eric Church Caught in the Act
Patty Griffin Silver Bell All tracks (co produced w/Craig Ross)
Amos Lee Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song All tracks
Thomas Rhett It Goes Like This "Whatcha Got in That Cup", "Something to Do with My Hands", "Make Me Wanna",
"Front Porch Junkies (Remix)", "All-American Middle Class White Boy", "Beer with Jesus"
Keith Urban Fuse "Love's Posters Child", "Lucky Charm" (both co-produced w/Urban)
2014 Eric Church The Outsiders All tracks
Little Big Town Pain Killer
Randy Rogers Band Homemade Tamales – Live at Floore's
Sleeper Agent About Last Night
2015 Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood All tracks
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before the Sun All tracks (co produced w/Coheed and Cambria)
FIDLAR Too All tracks
Halestorm Into the Wild Life
Carrie Underwood Storyteller "Renegade Runaway", "Dirty Laundry", "Smoke Break",
"Choctaw County Affair", "Like I'll Never Love You Again", "Chaser"
Zac Brown Band Jekyll + Hyde "Homegrown", "Bittersweet" (both co-produced w/Zac Brown)
2016 Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop
Brandy Clark Big Day in a Small Town All tracks
2017 Little Big Town The Breaker
2018 Devin Dawson Dark Horse
Brothers Osborne Port Saint Joe
Ashley McBryde Girl Going Nowhere
Mikky Ekko FAME
Eric Church Desperate Man
Rainbow Kitten Surprise How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
2019 White Reaper You Deserve Love
2020 Declan McKenna Zeros
Brandy Clark Your Life Is a Record
Miranda Lambert Wildcard
Ashley McBryde Never Will
2021 Devin Dawson The Pink Slip
Lainey Wilson Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'
Eric Church Heart
&
Soul
2022 Orville Peck Bronco
Zella Day Sunday In Heaven All tracks except "Radio Silence" and "Sunday In Heaven"
Lainey Wilson Bell Bottom Country All tracks
2023Chris Ryan and Jelly Roll Single"Scared to Go to Church"
2024 Lainey Wilson Whirlwind All tracks
The Black Crowes Happiness Bastards
2025 Jon Pardi Honkytonk Hollywood
Eric Church Evangeline vs. the Machine
Molly Tuttle So Long Little Miss Sunshine
Whiskey MyersWhomp Whack Thunder

References

  1. "Little Big Town: About". Little Big Town. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  2. "M Music & Musicians Magazine » JAY JOYCE". Mmusicmag.com. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  3. "Post News | Jay Joyce installs 48 channel SSL Duality console in Nashville facility". Solid State Logic. 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  4. "M Music & Musicians Magazine » JAY JOYCE" . Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  5. "Warner/Chappell Music Signs Co-Pub Deal With Joyce". 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  6. "Past Winners And Nominees". 2019 CMA Awards | Wednesday, November 13 on ABC. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  7. LTD, BubbleUp. "winners". Academy of Country Music. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  8. Harvilla, Rob (2018-08-21). "The Most Influential—and Hardest-Rocking—Man in Country Music". The Ringer. Retrieved 2020-07-17.