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Joe Chiccarelli is an American record producer, mixer and engineer, who is a native ofBoston,Massachusetts, and has been active since the 1980s.[1] He has produced albums byJulieta Venegas,Jason Mraz,Morrissey,Oingo Boingo,Spoon,Young the Giant,The Shins,The Strokes,My Morning Jacket,Alanis Morissette,Augie March,Manchester Orchestra,Minus the Bear,Boy & Bear,Kurt Elling,Saints of Valory, andBig Talk. Other artists includeElton John,Rufus Wainwright,U2,Illiterate Light[2]Counting Crows,Beck,Etta James,The White Stripes,Jamie Cullum,John Prine,Grace Potter,Joan Baez,Al Stewart,Tori Amos,Sandra Bernhard,The Killers,Cage The Elephant,Cafe Tacuba,Pink Martini,The Shelters,Christina Perri,Third Eye Blind,The Cult,Bon Jovi,All American Rejects,Vanessa Carlton,The Offspring,Plain White T's,Rachael Yamagata,Michael Bublé,Glenn Frey,Vance Joy,Teagan & Sara ,Stan RidgwayandWeezer.
Chiccarelli also engineeredFrank Zappa's albumsSheik Yerbouti,Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III andTinseltown Rebellion, and engineeredthe White Stripes 2007 albumIcky Thump. He also engineeredThe Raconteurs,Consolers of the Lonely, for which he received his eighth of Eleven Grammy Awards, for Best Engineered Album of 2008.[3] He is responsible for album sales well over 60 million and currently 12 Billion Streams.
Chiccarelli got his first taste of the studio through a cousin who owned Boston's Fleetwood Studio. He also worked as an engineer at Music Designers Recording Studio in Boston. Chiccarelli moved west where he scored an assistant engineer gig at L.A.'s Cherokee Studios.[1] He got his career break engineeringFrank Zappa's albumSheik Yerbouti. In an interview withHitQuarters, Chiccarelli said: "[Zappa's] engineer couldn't make the session and so he decided to take a chance on me. I'm so thankful ever since that day because he gave me a career."[4]
He is credited with discovering singerTori Amos and signing her first band,Y Kant Tori Read, to a label deal.[5] However, Chiccarelli refuted this in an interview withHitQuarters saying, "That's a myth. Tori was already signed to Atlantic Records as a solo artist when I got involved."[4] In 1998, he mixed the Latin albumUn Tributo (a José José), a tribute toJosé José.
In 2009 Chiccarelli produced sessions for Brandi Carlile as well asMinus the Bear's albumOmni, released on May 4, 2010.[6] He produced four tracks onThe Strokes' fourth album,Angles. He also produced the debut album from Australian groupBoy & Bear. The band received five ARIA awards for the album.[7] He also Produced the Gold selling debut album forYoung The Giant. It yielded two Platinum singlesCough Syrup andMy Body. He also engineered and mixed tracks on Morrissey'sSwords album.
In 2011, Chiccarelli producedJason Mraz's fourth albumLove Is a Four Letter Word, released April 17, 2012[8] andAlanis Morissette's upcomingHavoc and Bright Lights[9] as well as the albumSongs of Patience for Alberta Cross.[10] In 2012 he produced what became a Gold album,Departures, for Australian artistBernard Fanning as well as tracks for Dwight Yoakam. His 2013 album projects include Divine Fits, Hellogoodbye, Saints Of Valory, Plain White T's, Need To Breathe, The Madden Brothers, Number One Charting Australian Album "Greeting from California", and Oxbow. In 2014 he has produced Morrissey's album,World Peace is None of Your Business as well as five songs on Spoon's albumThey Want My Soul, and tracks with The Rocketboys, Ivan & Alyosha, JEFF the Brotherhood andVictorian Halls. In 2015 he produced a duets album for Doug Seegers and Jill Johnson, becoming a Platinum Number One album in Sweden.
Album releases in 2016 included releases from Oxbow, Buffalo Sunn, Bleached, Cherry Glazerr, Night Riots, SPEAK and Broken Social Scene. Album sessions in 2017 included Flogging Molly, Jamie Lawson, The Wonders Years, Vance Joy and Morrissey. Album sessions in 2018 included debut album for Rare Americans, new albums for Broken Social Scene, Charly Bliss, Half Moon Run, Morrissey, The Shelters and Run River North. 2019 sessions included Morrissey, The Falls,The Jacks, Rare Americans, Little Dragon, Taylor Janzen and theJuno Award winning album for Half Moon Run's "A Blemish In The Great Light". 2020 Sessions include Didirri, The Dumes, Duncan Laurence, Jagwar Twin,Liily, andClassless Act. 2021 sessions include new albums for The Districts, Michael Bublé and Cayucas. 2022 sessions include Middle Class Rut, Oxbow, Orianthi, Tegan & Sara, The Blue Stones, Robert Randolph and Liz Brasher. 2023 productions with Morrissey, Oxbow, Michael Bublé, Keith Urban, Illiterate Light, Falls, Art D'ecco, Robert Randolph, Jake Wesley Rogers and The Takes. 2024 sessions include Morrissey, Oxbow, Ripe, Sun Room, Steve Bardwil, The Takes, and Weezer.
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