Mark van Allen

Mark van Allen
Born	1954 (age 71–72) Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Occupations	Musician, recording engineer, record producer
Instruments	Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mandolin
Years active	1979–present
Website	markvanallen.com

Mark van Allen (born 1954) is an American musician, recording engineer and record producer, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Instruments he plays include the pedal steel guitar, dobro, lap steel guitar, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and the mandolin.

As a touring and session musician, van Allen has appeared with a wide variety of artists, covering many musical genres, including Zac Brown Band, Shawn Mullins, Buddy Miles, Hank Thompson, Indigo Girls, John Berry, ^[1] Mark Wills, Warren Haynes, Sugarland, Jimmy Herring, Leftover Salmon, Guy Clark, Vassar Clements, Rehab and Manchester Orchestra.

He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where he runs a multitrack recording studio and is active on the local recording and national touring scene.

Discography

Year	Song/Album	Artist	Label	Instrument	Other credits	Ref
1979	"A Song About A Letter" b/w "I Love You" (45 RPM single)	Merlin Jones	Frontier Records	Pedal steel
1980	"Memories of You" b/w "Someone Cares" (45 RPM single)	Randy Roddy
1986	Things Are Not The Same (LP)	John Berry	Clear Sky Records
1988	"Between 17 And 20" b/w " The Christmas Tree" (45 RPM single)	Kyle Ensley
1993	The Willing Suspension Of Disbelief	DeDe Vogt	Daemon Records
1994	Everyday Thing	Alan Wayne Baker	Rogue Records
	Things Are Not The Same (CD)	John Berry	Liberty Records/Patriot Records
	Rain	Jan Smith	Rogue Records		Songwriter
1995	Simple Life	Christopher Mercure	RamCat
1996	She Dreams Alone	Libby Eason	Dark Rose Records	Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar
	John Grant	John Grant	RCR Records
	Horses And Guitars	Selene McCarthy	Mane N' Tale
1997	Real Cowboy Girl	Cowboy Envy	NikiVicki	Pedal steel
	Move Along	Thornton Price	TP10
	Open the Window	Elise Witt	EmWorld Records
1999	Barnyard Gone Wrong	Blueground Undergrass	Root Cellar Records	Pedal steel, harmony vocals	Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	Live at Southside Music Hall		HaneyJones Music	Pedal steel
	Live At The Variety Playhouse		Phoenix Records	Pedal steel, lap steel	Mixdown engineer, co-producer
	Live At The Variety Playhouse (European vinyl release)		Comet Records/Horizon Records
	Live at Iota
	Live At The Variety Halloween
	Prompt Temporary Relief	Good Medicine	Root Cellar Records	Pedal steel
	Just For The Songs	Rich Healy	Up and Running Records	Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar
	Souldiers	Richard Long		Pedal steel	Recording engineer, producer
2000	Blueground Undergrass	Newground	Bgug Records	Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, lead and harmony vocals	Recording and mixdown engineer, mastering engineer, producer
		Phoenix Presents Sampler	Phoenix Records	Pedal steel	Mixdown engineer
	Windows Sampler	Blueground Undergrass, Play J.Com	Windows Records
	Whatever Became Of Me?	Joyce Brookshire	EmWorld Records	Pedal steel, dobro
	Wagons Ho	Cowboy Envy	Daemon Records	Pedal steel
	Lost My Steel Railways	Danny Kahn		Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar
	Fresh Flowers	Selene McCarthy	Mane N' Tale	Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar
	One Horse Town	Queenie Mullinix		Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar	Recording engineer
	Oldstar	Oldstar	Riverbridge Records	Pedal steel
	Dream	Karen Shayne	Rogue Records
2001	The Discussion Begins...	Dan K. Theory	Root Cellar Records	Lap steel, dobro	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Lollipop Rock	Lollipop Rock		Pedal steel
	Live	Music Badger.Com
	Cosmic Cabin Memories	Jim Thompson		Pedal steel, acoustic and electric guitar, dobro, mandolin, bass, baritone guitar	Recording and mixdown engineer, producer
	Watch and Learn Let's Jam: Country and Bluegrass		Cassette and Video Learning Systems	Pedal steel
	Dusk	Dusk Wilson Weaver	Phi Acoustics	Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar
2002	Heartland	Athma Mitram			Recording engineer
	The Road From Swannanoa	Border Collies
	Moodswing Halo	Shane Bridges	Riverbridge Records	Pedal steel, dobro	Recording and mixdown engineer, producer
	On Board The Armenia	Calliope Fair	Root Cellar Records		Recording and mixdown engineer
	Knee Deep In Blues	Del Conner	DellConn	Pedal steel
	Just Being Me	Nichole Davidson
	Imperfectly	Libby Eason	Dark Rose Records	Dobro
	Not Too Late To Love Again	Wayne Hill	Forte Music	Pedal steel
	Let It Unfold	Sheri Kling	Heartsprings Music	Pedal steel, dobro
	This Guy's The Limit	Rich Millett	Pop Head Music	Pedal steel
	Lifelines	Paul Sforza	Turnstone Records
	The Treehouse Incident	Shadowood	Shady Music
	Enjoy The Ride		Rogue Records
2003	Nowhere Is Too Far	Jon Allmet	Between The Sheets Music
	Dance Around It	Box Rockers		Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel	Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	With Shawn Mullins	Cornbread		Pedal steel
	Free To Go	Donna Hopkins		Dobro	Recording engineer
	HomeWrecker, HeartBreaker	Kate and The Retreads		Pedal steel
	Homewrecker, Heartbreaker	Kate James and Lost Country	Hayden's Ferry
	Chaff Harvest	Packway Handle Band	Busboat		Recording engineer
	Collage	Bill Shultz		Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Happy Holidays From 99X, Vol. III	Sugarland
2004	Live at Tree Sound Studios	Caroline Aiken		Pedal steel
	Three Rivers Point	Captain Soularcat
	In The Beginning	Emmaus Road Project
	All That We Let In	Indigo Girls	Sony/Epic	Pedal steel, dobro
	Drum & Bass Society, Vol. 1	Joseph Patrick Moore	Blue Canoe Records	Pedal steel
	Crush	The Planet Riders		Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar, baritone guitar	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Live At Eddie's Attic 3-24-04			Pedal steel, dobro	Bad jokes
	County Line	Mark Scott	U.S. 78 Music	Pedal steel
	Premium Quality Tunes	Sugarland	Mercury Nashville
	Grey	Wayside Riders
2005	Why Not?	The Bird Dogs		Pedal steel, dobro, harmony vocals	Producer, engineer
	Clay Cook	Clay Cook		Pedal steel
	Sideman Blues	Bret Hartley Experiment	Tremolo Blue Music
	Heartland	Sheri Kling	Heartsprings Music	Pedal steel, dobro
	Man Made Trouble	Nathan Mayberry		Pedal steel, baritone guitar	Recording engineer
	Live at Eddie's Attic			Pedal steel
	[R]Evolution	Moonshine Still	TreeSound
	Hey Buddy	New Orlean's Juice
	Language Of Dreams	Berne Poliakoff
	For the Kids	Ranger Bill		Pedal steel, dobro, guitar, bass, keyboard, baritone guitar	Producer, engineer
	Home Grown	Zac Brown Band	Home Grown Records	Pedal steel
2006	The Memory of Your Company	Arlington Priest	Crazy Neighbor Records	Pedal steel, dobro
	Once In A Blue Moon	Larry Scott Chapman	Shane Records
	Songs From Stone Mountain	Dave Daniels & New Pony		Pedal steel	Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	Streetcars Ain't Got Handlebars	Russ Duty
	Guns Kill People	Mike Killeen		Pedal steel, dobro	Recording engineer, co-producer
	Demos, Outtakes, Live and Whatnot				Recording, mixing, and mastering engineer, co-producer
	Wandering Moon	Kristin Markiton Band
	Live at Eddie's Attic Sept. 13, 2006			Dobro
	T.B.S. Soundstage (DVD)			Pedal steel, dobro
	Myth of the Self Made Man	Nathan Mayberry			Recording engineer
	Cory Sellers	Cory Sellers
	Two Lane Road	South 70
	Crazy	Pete Whitfield
2007	Courier	Brian Ashley Jones Trio		Dobro	Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	That Should Heal Nicely	Bishop Don		Pedal steel
	Broken Window Pains	Shane Bridges	Riverbridge Records
	Gathering Of Eagles	Dwain Cleveland		Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, pedal steel, bass	Recording and mixdown engineer, producer
		Kahle Davis and the Night Watchmen		Pedal steel, dobro	Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	Highway to Fame (television special)	Tom Dugger
		Owen Evans		Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel
		Kecia Garland		Pedal steel, dobro	Recording and mixdown engineer, producer
	Jackson County Line	Jackson County Line		Pedal steel
	Hell Broke Loose in Georgia	Moira Nelligan		Bass, pedal steel	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Whiskey Down	Tyler Reeve		Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel
	Hard Headed Fool	Corey Smith	Razor & Tie	Pedal steel, dobro
	America	Robin Dean Salmon
	Slowly First	James Salter		Pedal steel
		Tanglewood Tonic			Recording and mixdown engineer
		Wighat			Mixdown engineer
	Crazy Heart	Tom Wolf		Dobro	Bad jokes
	We Know What You Want	Zydeco T			Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
2008	90 Proof Lullabye	Connor Christian & Southern Gothic		Pedal steel, lap steel
	God Sent An Angel	Laveda Dorsey		Pedal steel, dobro
	CD single	Steve Freeman		Pedal steel
	Clear Channel Jingle	Simon Horrocks
	Little. And Low.	Mike Killeen	227 Springdale Records	Pedal steel, lap steel	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Sugar On A Stick	Rebecca Loebe		Pedal steel
	CD single	Kristin Markiton
	Mending	The New Frontiers	The Militia Group
	She Says	J. R. Rund		Dobro
	South 70	South 70	DrumBum Music	Pedal steel, lap steel
2009	Naked	Steve Baskin		Pedal steel
	I Really Want to Say	Adam Bret
	Clementine	Dave Daniels	Black Hills Music		Recording engineer
	Just Like Ghosts	Dave Daniels & the PTA			Recording engineer, production
	Mystery Prize	Rebecca Loebe		Pedal steel, dobro
		Nate Montgomery		Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar	Recording engineer
	War and Sand	Krysta Nick		Pedal steel
	It's Been Worth It All	Dorothy Norwood	Malaco Records
	Welcome Home	Rehab	Universal Republic
	Keeping Up With the Joneses	Corey Smith	Undertone Records	Pedal steel, dobro
	Create Your Day, Celebrate Your Night	Emily Smith	Spirit Wave Healing	Pedal steel, keyboard, synthesizer	Music production, recording and mixdown engineer
	Sufficient Grace	Sufficient Grace		Pedal steel
2010	Universal You	Nathan Beaver
	New Hometown	Connor Christian & Southern Gothic
	Lovin' You Still	Georgia
	Mulennium	Gov't Mule	Evil Teen			[2]
	Josh Harris	Josh Harris
	Poverty Is Real	Mike Killeen
	Manchester Orchestra	Manchester Orchestra
	The Broken Record	Corey Smith	Undertone Records
	Whiskey Gentry	Whiskey Gentry
	Unhyphenated American	Andy Lee White
2011	Everybody's Out Tonight	Nathan Beaver
	Power Up Jingle	Berkely Power Corporation
	The Oprah Song	Leslie Christian
	Georgia Fair	Georgia Fair	Sony Music
	Old North Monroe	James Matthew Hughes
		The Internationals		Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel	Recording and mixdown engineer
	Signature Jingle	Revolution Radio
	First of Many	Saint Francis		Pedal steel	Mastering engineer
	"Revolution" (on Hemlockfest 2011 compilation CD)
	Revolution Radio Signature
	Andy Velo	Andy Velo
	Jayron Weaver	Jayron Weaver		Pedal steel, dobro
2012	Demo	Kristen Englenz		Pedal steel	Recording and mixdown engineer, producer
2015	Shine On the Waters of My Soul	Victor Johnson	Beautiful Things
?		Aslyn
		Leslie Barnett
	For the Lord is Royalty	Steven Kern			Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer
	Long Journey	Mike Mermin		Pedal steel, dobro
	Compilation	Star Route USA		Pedal steel
		Sundiver
	Drive	Francisco Vidal Band

References

1. "Country band places third". Calhoun Times and Gordon County News. 8 April 1987. p. 2B. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
2. "Mulennium Release Info". Evil Teen Records. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.

External links

• "Home". Markvanallen.com. Retrieved 29 December 2020.