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Dave Cobb (born July 9, 1974) is an Americanrecord producer based inNashville, Tennessee, best known for producing the work ofChris Stapleton,Brandi Carlile,John Prine,Sturgill Simpson,Jason Isbell,The Highwomen,Take That,Rival Sons, andZayn Malik, among others.^[1][2]

Cobb is also a contributor to the six million-selling 2018A Star Is Born soundtrack and produced "Always Remember Us This Way" forLady Gaga.^[3][4]

Cobb was born inSavannah, Georgia,^[5] to Mary Cobb (née Floyd) and David Cobb, Sr.. He attendedThe Cottage School inRoswell.

Cobb said his family was very religious and was active in thePentecostal faith (his maternal grandmother was a minister).^[3] Cobb began playingdrums and takingguitar lessons at church when he was four years old.^[6]

Cobb's career in music began as asession musician inAtlanta, sometimes working withproducersDallas Austin andJermaine Dupri. In the late 1990s he joinedBritpop band The Tender Idols, featuring Ian Webber (vocals), Danny Howes (guitar), Guy Strauss (drums) and Joe Jones (bass), and Cobb on guitar and bass.^[7] The band signed with New York record label Emagine and released threeLPs, the second of which Dave Cobb co-produced.^[8] Cobb's involvement in the recording process got him interested in working in therecording studio and led to him recording and producing other bands he was friends with.^[5]

Cobb left the band and moved toLos Angeles, California in 2004. Cobb's manager, Andrew Brightman, introduced him toShooter Jennings,^[5] and the two became friends, connecting over shared interest in bands likeMinistry,Skinny Puppy, andNine Inch Nails.^[8] Jennings also expanded Cobb's country music education and, in 2005, Cobb produced Jennings' debut solo albumPut the "O" Back in Country. Over the next several years, Cobb produced more albums by Jennings, as well as albums by such rock bands asRival Sons,^[3] and co-producedJamey Johnson'sThat Lonesome Song (2008) andThe Guitar Song (2009).^[7]

In 2009, thanks to his professional connection to Jennings, Cobb produced theOak Ridge Boys' recordThe Boys Are Back,^[4] encouraging the band to record outside their standard catalog. The group then went on to cover songs byThe White Stripes,Neil Young andJohn Lee Hooker.^[9]

In 2011 Cobb moved toNashville, Tennessee.^[3] Cobb established arecording studio in a bedroom-sized room at the back of his house and named it Low Country Sound.^[10] After meetingSturgill Simpson at aBilly Joe Shaver concert,^[11] Cobb produced Simpson's debut studio albumHigh Top Mountain (2013) and its follow-up,Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014). Recorded at Cobb's Low Country Sound studio in only four days, Cobb used many different vintage recording techniques, avoiding any electronic recording approaches for this particular album.^[7]

Cobb began working withJason Isbell in 2013. Isbell's albumSoutheastern, recorded in Cobb's home and studio, was an effort to chronicle an acoustic sound similar to what is found onSimon And Garfunkel'sBridge over Troubled Water, where a non-traditional recording environment was captured to provide an organic, live and "warm" sound.^[5][12] The same year, Cobb began work producingEarly Morning Shakes, the third studio album fromWhiskey Myers, a Country Southern rock band fromPalestine, Texas. The record was released on February 4, 2014.

Cobb met singer-songwriterAnderson East at Nashville'sBluebird Cafe, and Cobb ended up producing East's 2015 albumDelilah, which was recorded atFAME Studios in North Alabama'sMuscle Shoals. Rodney Hall from FAME allowed the pair into the archives—in the vault they foundGeorge Jackson's song, "Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, Forget 'Em," which is now a track onDelilah.^[13] The video for "Find 'Em" is shot at FAME.^[14]

In 2015, Cobb foundedLow Country Sound (LCS), a record label imprint ofElektra that has a distribution deal withAtlantic Records.^[15] The debut project for Low Country Sound was the 2015 recordDelilah byAnderson East, who is currently signed with the label.^[16] The same year, Cobb co-producedChris Stapleton's debut studio albumTraveller at the historicRCA Studio A on Nashville'sMusic Row, which was slated for demolition.^[10] The album would go on to top theBillboard Year-End Top Country Albums chart in 2016 and 2017,^[17][18] and win theGrammy Award forBest Country Album.^[19]

On March 18, 2016, the collaborative albumSouthern Family was released on the Low Country Sound imprint. Produced and curated by Cobb, theconcept album was inspired by the albumWhite Mansions, with themes centered onfamily values and the artist's experiences growing up in theSouth. It contains song contributions byZac Brown,Anderson East, Jason Isbell, Shooter Jennings, Jamey Johnson,Miranda Lambert,Morgane andChris Stapleton among others. It was officially released on March 18, 2016.^[20]

RCA Studio A was saved from demolition, and in July 2016, Cobb began a long-termresidency at the studio.^[10] The title of Chris Stapleton's 2017 releasesFrom A Room: Volume 1 andFrom A Room: Volume 2 refer to the albums being recorded at the studio, as does The Oak Ridge Boys' 2018 release,17th Avenue Revival, referring to the studio's location on 17th Avenue in Nashville.

In 2022, Cobb producedGavin DeGraw's eighth album titledFace the River, the album4 bySlash featuringMyles Kennedy and the Conspirators, as well asSammy Hagar and the Circle's albumCrazy Times.

In 2024, Cobb produced singer-songwriterOliver Anthony's debut albumHymnal of a Troubled Man’s Mind, who came to prominence half a year prior with the viral single "Rich Men North of Richmond". While most of the songs were already released as acoustic recordings, they were re-recorded and provided new arrangements by Cobb.^[21]

Cobb has said he focuses on the performer's voice, aiming for an end product which sounds natural. Cobb often plays guitar, and occasionally drums, on the records he produces.^[5] Cobb citesJimmy Miller (Sticky Fingers,Exile on Main Street) as an important influence in his approach to producing, as well asGlyn Johns andBrendan O'Brien.^[22] Current influences includeGabriel Roth (Daptone Records).^[5]

Cobb also is known to not have a preference over analog recordings versus digital, instead believing the spontaneous nature of creativity as well as the inspiration derived from new discovery, predominantly drives the organic quality of a song.^[5]

Cobb lives in theGreen Hills neighborhood ofNashville,Tennessee.^[3][16] Cobb is married; he and his wife, who is fromAlbania, have one daughter together.^[6][7][3]

One of Cobb's paternal cousins fromGeorgia is the singer-songwriterBrent Cobb.^[7][23] Additionally, Cobb said he grew up with musicianButch Walker.^[6]

Cobb has talked about the long-term passion that turned into a serious hobby where he explores different types of wine, especially fromPaso Robles and other California vineyards.^[6]

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• 2011:Grammy Award for Best Country Album (nominee) forJamey Johnson'sThe Guitar Song^[16]
• 2014:Americana Music Association, Album of the Year forJason Isbell'sSoutheastern^[24]
• 2014:Americana Music Association, Producer of the Year^[5]
• 2014:Grammy Award for Best Americana Album (nominee) forSturgill Simpson'sMetamodern Sounds in Country Music
• 2015:Grammy Award for Producer of the Year (nominee)
• 2015:Grammy Award for Best Country Album forChris Stapleton'sTraveller – as producer
• 2015:Grammy Award for Best Americana Album forJason Isbell'sSomething More Than Free – as producer
• 2016:Americana Music Association, Album of the Year,Jason Isbell'sSomething More Than Free
• 2016:Americana Music Association, Producer of the Year
• 2016:Music Row awards, Producer of the Year
• 2017:Country Music Awards, Chris Stapleton'sFrom A Room: Volume 1
• 2017:Country Music Awards, Producer of the Year
• 2018:Grammy Award for Best Americana Album (nominee) forBrent CobbShine On Rainy Day
• 2018:Grammy Award for Best Americana Album forJason Isbell and the 400 Unit'sThe Nashville Sound – as producer
• 2018:Grammy Award for Best Country Album forChris Stapleton'sFrom A Room: Vol. 1 – as producer
• 2019:Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song forBrandi Carlile's "The Joke" – as co-writer, producer
• 2019:Grammy Award for Best Americana Album forBrandi Carlile'sBy the Way, I Forgive You – as producer
• 2022:Grammy Award for Best Country Album forChris Stapleton'sStarting Over - as producer
• 2022:Grammy Award for Best Country Song forChris Stapleton's"Cold"- as songwriter and producer
• 2023: Grammy Award for Best Americana Album for Brandi Carlile'sIn These Silent Days - as producer

• Console / board: HELIOS by Dick Swettenham (Abbey Road Studios)^[6]
• Recorder: Endless Analog's CLASP (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor)^[25][26]
• Converters: Burl Audio B80 Mothership and the B32 Vancouver^[27]

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