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John Would is a Grammy award-winning American musician, songwriter, record producer, audio engineer, and mixer, who was born in Vallejo, California, United States. He has recorded and performed extensively as a multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitarist) and works mainly out of his own studio, Stanley Recordings, in Los Angeles, California.
Would, previously known as John Wood (name change due to too many John Woods), served as a guitarist for Warren Zevon in his 1982 touring band. [1]
John Would won a Grammy award for his work on Fiona Apple's highly acclaimed Fetch the Bolt Cutters record. He recorded a large part of the 2020 release, Fetch the Bolt Cutters as well as playing keyboards and some mixing. [2] John's daughter, Amy Wood, is Apple's drummer and co-producer on the album. He also recorded Fiona Apple's 2012 Grammy Award nominated album, The Idler Wheel... [3]
For the 2021 Sharon Van Etten tribute album Epic Ten, John recorded most of and mixed Fiona Apple’s version of Love More.
For the 2022 Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, John was on composer Amy Wood’s team producing, composing, playing, and mixing the score.
For Adam Levy's 2019 release, Accidental Courage, Would recorded the record mostly live in the studio with very few overdubs. The band featured Levy on guitars and vocals, Gaby Moreno on guitar and vocals, Charley Drayton on drums, Madison Cunningham on guitars and vocals, Darryl Jones on bass guitar, and Benmont Tench on keyboards. Would also mixed the record.
For HBO's True Blood , Would produced, recorded, played on, and mixed the song "Let's Boot and Rally" with Iggy Pop and Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, and a remake of The Animals song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". Which featured a duet with Eric Burdon and Jenny Lewis. [4]
Would produced, arranged, and played on a remix of the T. Rex song "Children of the Revolution" for Gary Calamar and KCRW. He recorded vocals, played lap steel guitar, and mixed Wanda Jackson's album, I Remember Elvis. He co-produced, recorded, and mixed and played lap steel guitar on Graham Parker's album Your Country.
He has also worked with Lucinda Williams, Wild Colonials, Chuck E. Weiss, and many other prominent musicians/entertainers. [5]
He was producer, engineer, and session musician on most of the tracks appearing on A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd including "Comfortably Numb" by Graham Parker, "Astronomy Domine" by Mike Keneally and "What Shall We Do Now?" by Which One's Pink?
Would works almost exclusively out of his studio, Stanley Recordings, now in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles.
John Would has done music for:
Would released an album in 2009 under the name The Quincy Blaque Trio entitled Uneasy Listening Music. [6] He has released three albums with the band Yortoise. [7]
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. She released five albums from 1996 to 2020, all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician.
Jeffrey Allen Ament is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Ament wrote or co-wrote many of Pearl Jam's hits, including "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Dissident", "Nothingman" and "Nothing as It Seems".
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Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released on July 23, 1996, by The WORK Group. Tidal produced six singles: "Shadowboxer", "Slow Like Honey", "Sleep to Dream", "The First Taste", "Criminal" and "Never Is a Promise". "Criminal", the album's most popular single, won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1998. In 2017, Tidal got its first vinyl run as a "Vinyl Me Please" exclusive "Record of the Month".
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Maude Amber McAfee-Maggart is an American cabaret singer and recording artist who performs throughout the United States and Europe, but most often in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City.
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